Hey(burn) from Weyburn!

Greetings from iNFUSE 2!

After five weeks of training (plus two weeks extra weeks of music training for Rachel), four days in a minivan together, and several nights various host homes, the iNFUSE 2 team has safely arrived at our home for the year in Weyburn, SK! We have unloaded our trailer, met the parish staff, and settled into our office. We've been met with a warm welcome and are already feeling pretty great about being here.

On our first night here we had the opportunity to attend the closing Mass of their annual parish mission. We were thriled to see a good number of students from the grades 5/6 youth group in attendance. After Mass we had the chance to MGM (meet, greet, and mingle) with almost all of the youth and some of the other adults at the Mass. The youth seemed VERY excited to meet us and are also quite interested in getting involved in the ministry.

Today we are beginning to get to know the youth of Weyburn on the closer level as we visit schools. Today we are visiting a grade 6 class and then tomorrow we are being introduced to the rest of the school.

We are ready and pumped up to start our ministry here in Weyburn! Keep us in your prayers and know that we are praying for all of you as well.

Stay in touch for more blogs from Weyburn.
In Christ's service,

Jillian and the rest of iNFUSE 2 (Rachel, Whit-Whit, Ashley, John, Jacob, and Joey)

Travel Days

Travel Days 

October 4, 2014

In our travels towards our final destination of Yellowknife, our team, INFUSE 3, is getting to know each other on new levels.

You may wonder how or why the 7 of us have spent over 40 hours in the van together.
Well, our mission of sharing the Gospel has no borders. We are more than enthusiastic to reach out and share the joy and love of Christ with the youth of upper Canada!

On our drive, we have discovered how vast and stunning our huge country of Canada really is. We have come to see that our wonderful Creator shows Himself to us each and every day through his beauty in creation. For some of us, this is our first time driving across the country, but for the rest they are still stunned at its colourful and vast beauty. Today we have encountered our first snowfall. Every time we pass a construction zone we wave to the workers and it seems to not only make their day better but also ours.  

We have stayed in many different host homes up to this point. They have all been so kind, welcoming, and generous. We are so amazed at the continuous joy that previous NETTERS have brought to the host homes that we have stayed in. We would like to give a SHOUT OUT to all the NET alumni for their example and great love shown to all the host homes. One host dad explained to us how NETTERS always bring joy to their home and how our ministry has impacted their family. This long drive is a way for our team to connect and learn to be patient and loving towards each other before starting our diocesan ministry in the diocese of Fort Mackenzie Smith, Northwest Territories. 

"We have been blessed with great driving conditions. During our second day of driving, we drove around the beautiful Lake Superior in Northern Ontario."





As for now stay tuned for our continuous updates on our ministry and stories of how God is working through us to bring youth to Christ.

Thank you for reading!

God Bless,

Ben from INFUSE 3    

Vlog Encounter 2 EAST COAST!

Finishing Strong

Hello all!

            Encounter two here, and we’re finally back in the Ottawa area! The east coast was amazing. It was so nice to be near the ocean for so long. We were able to hit New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. It was a really cool experience, for most of us it was our first time being to Newfoundland! We didn’t get all of the way to St. John’s, but we were able to go to Mary’s Town, Corner Brook, and Stevenville. Newfoundland is such a beautiful province!

            This Holy week we did a fair amount of driving, as we celebrated Palm Sunday in Halifax, Nova Scotia with Archbishop Mancini, and Easter Sunday in Deep River Ontario! It was really cool to experience Easter with other families and take part in other traditions. The families and the parish in Deep River really made us feel at home!

            Just recently we had the opportunity to run an overnight Encounter Event at Centre de L’Amour in Rockland, Ontario. It was really awesome being able to run an event at the place where some of our NET training was held.  We got to watch the youth grow in their faith throughout the event, at the place where all of us grew a lot in our faith. There was one gentleman in my small group that really wasn’t sure about his faith, coming into the event. He was really awesome, and very real with me. He was a very genuine guy and he wasn’t afraid to tell me exactly where he was at, which was really cool.

            At the end of the second day there was a time of prayer and adoration, and all of the guys in my small group were very engaged in it. After the adoration we met as a small group, and he couldn’t help but share his experience. He told us about how during that prayer time and adoration he realized that Jesus IS his best friend, and that he wanted a relationship with Him. It was amazing because he didn’t come to this realization through what we did or said, he came to it by sitting in the presence of God and being open to Him. It was incredible to witness!

            As our year of ministry is coming to a close, or schedule is busy as ever! Currently we are in the Pembroke diocese, and our last events take place in the Toronto diocese. Keep us in your prayers!

God bless

Mike McCallum

Encounter 2

The Beginning of the End

The youth here never cease to amaze me! For our junior high youth group a couple weeks ago we had a time of Adoration, during which we invited the youth to approach the Blessed Sacrament on the altar and sign cards as a physical sign of their commitment to living their lives for Christ. As soon as the invitation was made, the first person got up and started walking towards Jesus, and before she made it all the way there, about 7 other youth rushed from their spots and started running towards Jesus, eager to commit themselves to Christ! It was absolutely beautiful. Many youth also received the Sacrament of Reconciliation that night too. I am so thankful for all that God has been doing in the lives of these youth this year!

For Easter we spent the entire day with one of the families in the area. It was beautiful out and we spent the afternoon outside walking to their cabane à sucre (sugar shack) and we spent some time exploring. We all had supper together and then we spent some time doing music together before heading back to our host families.

Last night was our last senior high school youth group and we spent the night empowering the youth to continue their faith journey even after we leave. We had an obstacle course that encouraged teamwork among them. We talked a little bit about the way society views youth these days and the way that we’re called to rise above those stereotypes and dare to do great things and make the world a better place. Paul shared a bit of Pope Saint John Paul IIs love for youth and then we invited the youth to join us in the Church and choose one of his quotes off the wall that inspire them and reflect on it during prayer time. The youth were so responsive to the message and it was a great way to end the year with this group of youth.  

God bless,

Katelyn Sutton

Les Équipes NET