Wow!! I'm so sorry everyone for not writing for awhile. It's definately been an adventure the last few weeks!

So, tonight was the last adoration before summer at my home parish in Innisfail at Our Lady of Peace. It was so nice to take time out to just spend time with Jesus, and talk to him. I couldn't thank God enough for all the youth of the schools and the parishes. They are so amazing and can offer us so much. They're just waiting for someone to ask them.

I also couldn't help but think how I can improve things for next year in my ministry. You know, like, am I doing too much? am I doing the wrong things?, should I being doing this, should I be doing that? Man! I'm a control freak! I sat in front of the blessed sacrament and I thought, "Jesus, help me not to the things I want to do, but things YOU want me to do." Sometimes I feel like I need to conquer the world. It really is very hard for me to say no, or to take on too much.

Anyways, this last weekend was beautiful. The gifts of the youth were alive and well!! The Localpalooza unplugged show to fundraise for students to go to Our Lady of Victory Camp was a huge success! Many students from Notre Dame performed. I'm so incredibly proud! Once that was finished, the youth team, along with Rocky's youth team, and the Team from Our Lady of Victory Camp dressed up in formal attire, and went to Mass at Sacred Heart, and then enjoyed a Dance in the hall. It was an awesome way to end off the year! Their true beauty came out that night. They all looked smashingly beautiful as young men and women of God.

Remember that these students are not the future of the church, but that they ARE the church, and they are ready and willing to participate more than we think. They just need to know that we care for them, and love them. I was blown away by a girl that is wanting to take the youth ministry course with me this summer. These students have changed my life!

Even though they have their drama, their excuses to try and skip class, their negative moments, and bad mood swings, they all have something very important and significant in common.
THEY ALL HAVE JESUS IN THEM!!
And once we try to look for Jesus in them, we see a side of them that is goes beyond the norm of a regular teenager.
I will truely miss the Grade 12's that will be leaving at the end of this month. And I pray that they will be successful in all that they do. Perhaps they will join the young adult ministry that is forming? haha! One can only hope, but either way, these are the faces that will lead their peers to Jesus!!