Changing the face of the Youth

About Jesus Youth

Jesus Youth is an international Catholic youth movement with a Charismatic spirituality. It had its beginnings in Kerala (India), but is now active in many different countries throughout the world. Jesus Youth is an initiative of young people themselves, who, filled with the Holy Spirit try to reach out to other young people. The strength of the movement is its special focus on a life centred on the Lord Jesus Christ; beginning with an experience of God, nourished by prayer, the Word of God, the sacraments and fellowship, and sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with others. Though not an actual community, Jesus Youth is a network of small but vibrant groups of young people. In their own life situations, they strive to give time to the Lord, responding to the challenges of today's world in the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Teens Leadership Training Program

Venue : St Pauls School, Udaipur

Resource persons for Retreat : Rajan Uncle from Baroda, present animator of JYNT

Team for Training : Mr. Subin Jacob, ( Asst Co-ordinator of JYNT), Mr. Anto (North Indian Teens Co-orsinator), Mr Vinod.

Participants for the program were from, Udaipur, Agra and Nagpur



24th Noon at 12pm the Retreat started, with 15 participants, and ended on 26th evening , the topics covered during the retreat, were God’s Love, Sin and Repentence, Innerhealing, Faith, Holy Sprit. During the time of Retreat adoration was done on all the days.

26th Evening,
After the retreat was over, the participants were divided in 3 groups, and were assigned Skit, Tablo and Action song with different action, all the three groups did very well and after the retreat, all were well charged to perform different things.


27th,
The Days began with the P & W and then, Asst cordi of JYNT, Mr. Subin Jacob took session on Self Awarness, for the full day with different activity, outdoor and indoor, which included some games and in the evening adoration was conducted.

28th,
The day started with the Praise and Worship and then Mr. Subin Jacob continued with the session of Self awarness till noon, and then at noon the session of Christian Leadership was taken by Mr. Vinod, and in the evening after the adoration and supper, open sharing was there and the topic was, Balance between Studies and J.Y. Activities, there was active participation from all the participants.


29th,
The day started with P & W, and then Mr. Anto took session on the 6 Pillars of JY, and then Mr. Subin Jacob gave an idea about J.Y history and different ministries and put more stress in Teens Ministry, (as Mr. Subin had to go in the evening so the session was shifted from 30th to 29th, at noon, again the sharing was kept about the Relation among Youth and Teenagers, in the evening views were being asked from the participants about their involvement in the Minisry). During the Mass Mr. Anto took charge of North Indian Teens and the team members with him were, Mr. Sanu Thomas, from Rajasthan who was already part of North Team, Ms. Reshma, from Noida, was the new member who joined the team.

30th,
Mr. Vinod took session on P & W, how to conduct a P & W, and Mr. Anto on Prayer Group which included different activity on PG, like outreach in some place like old age homes etc, and Prayer Meetings.


Training ended with the Holy Mass celebrated by His Holiness Rev Joseph Patalil, Bishop of Udaipur. After lunch, some time was taken for the planning for the J.Y activities in different regions from where the participants were present.