NET Ministries challenges young Catholics to love Christ and embrace the life of the Church. Every August, 150 young Catholics aged 18-28 leave behind their jobs, school, family, and friends to devote nine months to serving with the National Evangelization Teams (NET).

Divided into 14 teams, they travel across the U.S. for nine months to share the Gospel with young people and their families. Since 1981, NET teams have led over 29,000 retreats and ministered to more than 1.7 million young Catholics.

NET Ministries fulfills its mission by:

• Proclaiming the Gospel of Christ through a personal witness of faith
• Inviting young people to live for Christ
• Forming young people in Christian character through the study and practice of their faith
• Equipping youth workers and young adults with the ministry skills needed for evangelization

NET Ministries is under the ecclesiastical vigilance of the Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. NET is a nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of Minnesota funded through individual donations, program fees and grants and is governed by a national board of directors.

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FOCUS is a Catholic collegiate outreach whose mission is to share the hope and joy of the gospel to college and university students. Trained in Church teaching, prayer, sacred Scripture, evangelization and discipleship, FOCUS missionaries encounter students in friendship where they are, inviting them into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and accompanying them as they pursue lives of virtue and excellence.

FOCUS missionaries set out on a courageous journey to college campuses, eager to reach students wherever they are with the gospel message. Our mission trips send students around the world to serve the material poor and the spiritually impoverished, experiencing the love and mercy of Christ in the most profound way. 

Through Bible studies, outreach events, mission trips and one-on-one discipleship, missionaries inspire and build up students in the faith, sending them out to spread the good news and to live out the Great Commission: Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations (Mt. 28:19).

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Life Teen Missions is answering the call from Christ’s final command in Matthew 28:19, “Go and make disciples of all nations,” through our specific ministry to teens. We invest in the lives of the youth around us by going out to them, inviting them into relationship and teaching them what it means to follow Christ.

In order to best disciple teens, all Life Teen missionaries spend a year in formation to assist them in developing and growing in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. During this year of formation, missionaries grow in an understanding of why discipleship is necessary, how to be a disciple of Christ, and how to make disciples with teens.

Prayer is the foundation of all Christian life. As missionaries, we are called to be “contemplatives in action”. All our activity flows out of our prayer life, which includes both personal and communal prayer. Our prayer, the heartbeat of our communities, includes a daily personal holy hour, daily mass where available, and a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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A missionary intern’s week will include, but is not limited to, the following ministerial expectations and responsibilities:

• Daily Mass and daily personal prayer time
• Weekly administrative work in the parish office
• On-going administrative planning and leadership responsibilities for youth or young adult program coordination (including all program aspects from intentional investment in youth & volunteers, year-long curriculum planning, marketing and communication, retreat planning and facilitation, collaboration with fellow missionaries, volunteers and Director of Evangelization)
• Parish staff meetings, weekly missionary team meetings, bi-weekly individual meetings with supervisor (Director of Evangelization)
• Facilitation of the Wednesday evening, Sunday morning and evening youth faith formation programs
• Opportunity to participate in S.A.L.T. Young Adult and That Man is You programs.
• Participation in Sunday Hospitality
• Rotation of “Open Youth Center” hours – being available for fellowship, mentorship and witnessing to parish and community youth.
• Weekly team and household community time to encourage a healthy team dynamic and Christ-centered friendships among the missionary interns.

• Daily Mass and regular reception of the Sacrament of Penance
• Eucharistic Holy Hours/daily prayer time (individually and as a team)
• Opportunity for Spiritual Direction
• Theological formation through parish missions, personal retreats, spiritual reading
• Missionaries are strongly encouraged to attend Lenten Stations of the Cross, Friday Vespers, and Advent & Lenten Missions.

• Administrative work in parish office
• Weekly tactical/collaborative meetings fellow missionary interns and Director of Evangelization
• Bi-weekly individual meetings with Director of Evangelization: focusing on program development and troubleshooting obstacles, personal & program goals, collaboration with volunteers/teammates, semester evaluations, overall success as a missionary intern
• Administrative planning, coordination and leadership of designated parish programs

• Fellowship and recreation time with their missionary teammates, parishioners, as well as other young adults involved in ministry in the Archdiocese.
• Days off (normally Mondays & Saturdays) are opportunities for recreation, fellowship and personal time.
• Missionaries are encouraged to participate in Sunday Hospitality, the Lenten Fish Fry, and any parish or school community events to foster relationships with parish families.A missionary’s visible witness to the parish is an important aspect of this internship opportunity.
• Personal mentorship by a member of the parish (opportunity for learning from someone who will offer encouragement, support, accountability and friendship for the missionary during his or her year of service.

The mission of SPIRITUS is to inspire young Catholics to spread the Gospel and renew the Church! Our two main goals are to evangelize thousands of young Catholics and form young adults as lifelong missionary disciples.
 
SPIRITUS...

• INSPIRES young Catholics through retreats, youth ministry and campus ministry.
• AWAKENS youth to their role as disciples and how they can live for Christ.
• WITNESSES to the Gospel and the teachings of the Catholic Church.
• ENERGIZES young Catholics to do their part in renewing life in the Church.
• FORMS young adults for leadership in the Church.

As a community of young adults, they commit to grow as missionary disciples, living the pillars of SPIRITUS which are Encountering God, Discipleship, Mission, Community and Conversion. This evangelizing community is founded on a prayer life including daily Mass, Liturgy of the Hours, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Silent Prayer, Praise, 1-on-1 Prayer and Eucharistic Adoration.

Team members fully participate in weekly formation classes, monthly spiritual direction and ongoing ministry training.

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