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Cary Andersoncaryandersonstmichaelgl.orgYouth Ministry Coordinator & Religious Education 7th -9th Grade
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Hello, my name is Cary Anderson, and I am grateful and excited to serve the parish as the Youth Coordinator for middle/high school religious education and youth group.
I have been a member of St. Michael for over 20 years. Serving the youth in our parish is a privilege and honor. My goal is for our youth to have opportunities to encounter the love of Christ in their lives, and in turn become courageous spirit-filled disciples that passionately live out discipleship. I am deeply humbled for the opportunity to work with your children. Please know my door is always open to any questions or concerns you may have, and I look forward to meeting and growing with not only the youth, but the whole family. They say it takes a village, and we are all in this together.
“Remember that you are never alone, Christ is with you on your journey every day of your lives! He has called you and chosen you to live in the freedom of the children of God. Turn to him in prayer and in love. Ask him to grant you the courage and strength to live in this freedom always. Walk with him who is ‘the Way, the Truth and the Life’!” – Saint Pope John Paul II. From the 12th World Youth Day in Paris, France (August, 1997
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Religious Education Program
7th-9th Graders who are either in public school or are homeschooled are invited to enroll in our Religious Education Program, to supplement the formation they are receiving with their parents at home.
MIDDLE SCHOOLERS curriculum will be closely following the series called Theology of the Body for Teens by Ascension Press (a look at the teachings of St. John Paul II on human dignity, sexuality, and ethics) and then a unit on Prayer, developed by Thane and Pat Belen. (The curricula follow a two-year cycle: 20/21-year Theology of the Body and Prayer, next year 21/22, Altaration from Ascension Press (an in depth look at the Mass) and Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Lively Virtues from Bishop Barron). The 7th-8th grade classes meet most Sunday evenings from 6:00-7:30pm in the Church Fellowship Hall. Opportunities are planned for the middle schoolers to meet with the Youth Group on selected Sundays throughout the year.
9TH GRADERS go through a series called Chosen, specifically designed to prepare them for the Sacrament of Confirmation. We will be meeting once per month, from 9:45-10:45 am in the Fellowship Hall (the first Sunday of each month, except for April where we will meet the second Sunday). Students will also be included as members of our high school Youth Group where they will receive continued formation and enjoy fellowship with fellow high schoolers (meet every Sunday from 6-8pm in the Siena room).
(Important to note: prior attendance in 8th Grade Religious Education or Catholic Schooling and current enrollment in 9th grade RE is required for receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation.)
"A means of evangelization that must not be neglected is that of catechetical instruction. The intelligence, especially that of children and young people, needs to learn through systematic religious instruction the fundamental teachings, the living content of the truth which God has wished to convey to us and which the Church has sought to express in an ever richer fashion during the course of her long history. No one will deny that this instruction must be given to form patterns of Christian living and not to remain only notional." (Pope St. Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi, 44)