The Archdiocese of San Francisco supports youth ministry programs that foster the catechesis, moral, and spiritual formation of young people in Middle School through High School.
Guided by the USCCB’s document,
“ Renewing the Vision” (1997), our ministry has three goals:
To empower young people (ages 13-17) to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today;
To draw young people into responsible participation in the life, mission and work of the faith community;
To foster the personal and spiritual growth of each young person.
To accomplish these goals, we offer training, community, workshops, resources, retreats, and collaboration opportunities for Youth Ministry Leaders within the Archdiocese, as well as training, retreats, catechetical events, leadership opportunities for youth themselves.
Genuine love is demanding. But its beauty lies precisely in the demands it makes. Only those able to make demands on themselves in the name of love can then demand love from others.
St. John Paul II
The ADSF Youth Service and Leadership Team aka S.A.L.T. will assist in planning, advising in and executing spirtual and social youth events throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Apply for this opportunity and serve your brothers an sisters in this great Archdiocese. All confirmed high school students, Coodinators of Youth Ministry and Young Adult Volunteers may apply. Space is limited and we are in need of leaders from Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties.
Applications for the ADSF 2020-2021
Apply here
Check us out also @ https://sfarch.flocknote.com/YM
The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers our Confirmation programs a retreat focused on the Sacrament of Confirmation for their candidates. These retreats will be peer led by high school and young adults of the Archdiocese that have been trained in the process of giving and leading in retreats. Parents and Sponsors are highly encouraged to participate and attend Mass with the Candidates. $15 fee for each participant for Zoom retreats. In person retreats will be a $35 fee.
Please note all retreats will be limited to 100 candidates and chaperones.
A Minimum of 20 total attendees must be met to have a retreat offered.
If your parish would like to host one of the retreats for the year or have any questions please contact us at
MarianoC@sfarch.org
There are 2 ways for your communities to attend!!!
You can offer your community a live experience at these two west coast locations:
(click on location for more information)
Steubenville West: Tucson, AZ July 16-18, 2021
of
Steubenville Northwest: Spokane, WA July 30-August 1, 2021
Livestream:
For those who can not be in person this summer, there are two live stream events for your Steubenville experience: (Click on dates for information)
June 25-27, 2021
or
July 9-11, 2021
The Chess Club is looking to train individuals to teach chess in the Catholic Schools here in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. As we teach our young people our goal is to establish a year-end Archdiocese of San Francisco chess tournament in 2022. If you are interested to coach or want more information for your school or child, please contact Christopher Major at cmajoredu@gmail.com
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The National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry has been serving the Youth Minister and Young Adult Minister communities for over 40 years. Their mission is to help support our ministries to "Empower young people to be missionary disciples." As our goal as an Archdiocese these the three ways NFCYM can help in offering these resourcese:
Check out the whole site and see how this great organization can help support your ministries. Click on NFCYM logo above to be directed to their website.
We are looking for dependable, trustworthy and faithful ministers that want to mentor, help develop, and journey with our parishes and youth. Send us your information and we will contact you.
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These meetings are for Youth Ministers, Young Adult Ministers, YMYAM Volunteers, Catechist, Faith Formation directors, Clergy and Campus Ministers throughout the Archdiocese to bring them together, share successes, ideas and challenges. This brings us to discuss ways to collaborate, have fellowship, network, and to build stronger young people communities.
To sign up for our quarterly meetings click on this link:
https://sfarch.flocknote.com/signup/39991
This 2 year program will focus on development of leadership and knowledge of the Archdiocese of San Francisco standards in Youth & Young Adult Ministries. This is made for new ministers, ministry teams and even a veteran minister wanting a refresher.
Each session will be either be on Zoom or in the Chancery. If on Zoom the meeting will be held at 2pm on that scheduled day.
If the meeting will be in the Chancery:
You can choose 1 of the 2 sessions held per day. One session from 10:00 am -1:30 pm which includes Lunch
or the 6:00 pm - to 8:30 pm session which also includes dinner.
When registering please state what time you will be attending the particular session.
Year 1 - A Sure Foundation
The Basics January 22, 2020– Foundational teaching of forms, procedures and focus of youth & young adult ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco
The Community July 15, 2020 – The who’s, what’s, why’s, where’s, how’s, and the resources of youth & young adult ministry as an office. This will dive into purpose and methods of serving the youth specifically in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Leadership and its Power August 5, 2020 – We will focus on Leadership styles and how leadership will affect you, the parish and the ministry.
Spiritual Foundation November 4, 2020 – Dive into doctrine and teachings of the Church and how we can utilize these tools with our young people (i.e. Renewing the Vision and Christus Vivit, etc.). Spreading and sharing the
truth and challenging our young people to search for understanding.
Year 2 - Building the Kingdom
NEXT-
The Retreat Culture January 13, 2021 – This is where we will learn the meaning, organization, development, creating a peer ministry model, and the results of a retreat culture in the parish and the Archdiocese.
Sign up here: https://sfarch.flocknote.com/signup/19646
Core Teams and How They Work April 14, 2021 – Here we will have the ways to develop a Youth Core teams in your parishes and how they can reenergize your parishes. Learn how to spark and develop interests, programs, activities and youth servant leadership.
You Can’t Give What You Don’t Have August 11, 2021- Now that you have given so much how as a minister can I replenish what I have given to the youth and the community. This is where we look and evaluate the minister’s life balance and what we can do to get us back on track<ay.
Now What!?!? November 10, 2021– Now that we have established what we were meant to do, NOW WHAT? Now is the most exciting time. We will now search and develop new leaders and let the youth leaders lead other youth leaders. This will show and teach the importance of succession planning or in other words “Replacement Driven Leadership”.
For more information please contact our office at Marianoc@sfarch.org or text YMYAM to 84576 to get our newsletter on all up coming events.
Catechetical Institute offers a Youth Ministry Track that is the official training encouraged by the Archdiocese of San Francisco for youth ministers and youth ministry volunteers. They also offer several other ministry training tracks and more to come. You may view a summary of each track, download a PDF handout for that track, and view the workshops associated with that ministry area.
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