Hello and welcome to AUSTRALIAwhere water is more expensive and kangaroos total your car if you're not careful driving on country toads at night...
Emma Fradd reporting again, this time away from Team 4 and off NET; I want to share a blog about the last 10 months of my life, the present and my future!
On a team with 5 other people - you’re around them for constantly for 10 months, you pray with them, share every experience with them and they become a strong source of fellowship. Surprisingly this year, I loved not having a lot of “alone” time. I loved learning how to love my team and help them in their faith journey. And it works both ways. God really does speak to you through them and they build you up to the best you can be. This year on NET has helped me to choose joy in my everyday actions, and serving my team has allowed me to grow in serving others.
Because you grow deeper in love with God, it leads you to evangelization. You get filled and fed with God’s love and it equips you to evangelize to those around you and not just the teenagers that you see on retreat or in your parish. As my year went on, I found that I wanted to evangelize more than ever, I wanted to share God's love and message with everyone around me, in host homes, with my team, with the parish priest and especially with the youth who are searching more than ever for it.
I served on NET during August 2009 - May 2010. Thanks to NET, I still have this zeal for evangelization. I’m going into my old high school now and doing classroom presentations, sharing with the students my relationship with God and to challenge them to have one as well. I’m leading music at Mass every weekend and I am so much more confident about talking about God with others.
As music leader on my team this year, I was able to work with musicians and build up bands to play at Mass and other youth events, I really believe that music is one of the best tools available for evangelization. So that’s why in 6 weeks, I’ll be flying back to Canada to join NET’s Massive Worship team. I will be traveling across Canada, running retreats for musicians to encourage and equip them to lead worship. Other retreats include assisting parish missions and adoration services with music and school retreats. All of this proclaiming the word of God with my guitar!
NET has helped me a lot to see how important evangelizing is, and I know that it’s not going to stop after Massive Worship, I really have a passion for talking about Jesus and I think God is going to use me and this gift he’s given me to do just that in years to come!
Join me in saying a Hail Mary for Catholics everywhere that they will respond to God’s call to evangelize. As Pope Paul VI says:
Because you grow deeper in love with God, it leads you to evangelization. You get filled and fed with God’s love and it equips you to evangelize to those around you and not just the teenagers that you see on retreat or in your parish. As my year went on, I found that I wanted to evangelize more than ever, I wanted to share God's love and message with everyone around me, in host homes, with my team, with the parish priest and especially with the youth who are searching more than ever for it.
I served on NET during August 2009 - May 2010. Thanks to NET, I still have this zeal for evangelization. I’m going into my old high school now and doing classroom presentations, sharing with the students my relationship with God and to challenge them to have one as well. I’m leading music at Mass every weekend and I am so much more confident about talking about God with others.
As music leader on my team this year, I was able to work with musicians and build up bands to play at Mass and other youth events, I really believe that music is one of the best tools available for evangelization. So that’s why in 6 weeks, I’ll be flying back to Canada to join NET’s Massive Worship team. I will be traveling across Canada, running retreats for musicians to encourage and equip them to lead worship. Other retreats include assisting parish missions and adoration services with music and school retreats. All of this proclaiming the word of God with my guitar!
NET has helped me a lot to see how important evangelizing is, and I know that it’s not going to stop after Massive Worship, I really have a passion for talking about Jesus and I think God is going to use me and this gift he’s given me to do just that in years to come!
Join me in saying a Hail Mary for Catholics everywhere that they will respond to God’s call to evangelize. As Pope Paul VI says:
“The Church exists to evangelize”
Let's hurry up and exist!
Emma Fradd
NET Alumni
Port Pirie, South Australia
Let's hurry up and exist!
Emma Fradd
NET Alumni
Port Pirie, South Australia
Emma you my friend rock my sox's off!! :-) I am proud to be related to you!! :-) God Bless and good luck at Music Training!!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome to hear Emma - it is so great that you will be on the Massive Worship team!
ReplyDeleteYou Rock - hope to see you soon,
Shannon