Hello,

Last May, your child said ‘yes’ to living his or her faith out for the rest of their life and in doing so, received the Sacrament of Confirmation. On paper, receiving this final Sacrament of Initiation marks the end of the spiritual journey as a child. But, as a catechist and spiritual leader in the Catholic Church, I view the Sacrament of Confirmation as the beginning of our spiritual journey as an adult, one that should continue for the rest our lives.

 

As the Youth Ministry & Young Adult Coordinator for Church of the Resurrection, it is my duty and calling to provide opportunities for the young people of our church to continue living out the Gospel in their daily lives post-Confirmation. The high school youth ministry program is one such opportunity that allows the teens of our parish community to continue learning about their faith, ask questions in a safe environment, be surrounded by other Catholic teens, and continue living the Gospel through service projects and volunteer work in and out of our parish community. This weekend our high school youth ministry kicks off its 2011-2012 campaign with our monthly Youth & Young Adult Mass followed by our Kickoff Barbecue. The Youth & Young Adult Mass is a mass that occurs at 5:30pm every first-Sunday of the month and targets teens and young adults with music, homilies, and reflections skits that young people can identify with. The kickoff barbecue immediately follows the mass and is a chance for high school students to meet their peers from our parish community. For more information, please visit: http://resyouth.wordpress.com or search for ‘Resurrection Youth Ministry’ on Facebook.

 

In this day and age, especially in the valley in which we live in, our daily lives can often be inundated with the pressures to succeed as individuals in our schooling, careers, and material wealth. Please help your child succeed in the long haul – at ‘Life’ – by sharing this email with them, and having an open discussion about continuing their spiritual journey sooner than later. It is when life becomes most overwhelming when the true peace and joy the Lord offers us becomes most important.

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

 

In Christ,

Jonathan Luu

Youth Ministry & Young Adult Coordinator

Youth Band & Choir Director

It’s that time of year again: RYM kicks off the Fall Season!!!

Join us this Sunday, October 2nd,  as we kickoff the new year starting with our Youth and Young Adult Mass at the 5:30pm mass, and then getting together at The LoFT for a barbecue social! There will be food, board games, Rock Band, sports, prizes, a door raffle, and a chance for you to meet other teens from our parish community. The event isn’t limited to ‘members only’ so make sure you invite your friends… or just bring ‘em along!

Youth and Young Adult Mass
Begins at 5:30pm
- Anyone interested in being an usher, gift bearer, proclaimer, or Eucharistic Minister should contact the RYM Office or call (408) 490-0575.

Fall Kickoff Barbecue 2011
Begins 15 minutes after the end of mass
Meet us in The LoFT (youth room in Farana Center)
Bring some comfortable shoes to run around in!

Those of you who are already members from previous years or are looking to join this year, please download our registration form (also found in the Forms section of our blog), fill it out, and bring it with you to the barbecue. This way you’ll be all set for all the events, activities, trips, and retreats for the year!

See you on Sunday!

Join us for the fourth year in-a-row of our End-of-the-Summer Beach Bash!

August 27th, 2011
Noon – 7:30pm
Seabright Beach, Santa Cruz

PERMISSION FORMS

Cost: $10.00 (includes lunch, dinner, snacks, and drinks)

There will be loads of games, swimming, and sports all day long…

Join us for:

• Ultimate frisbee
• Beach Soccer
• Board Games
• Flag Football
• Wiffle ball
• Swimming

We’ll have the grill going all day long too so enjoy a hamburger, hot dog, cheese quesadilla, or any of the other snacks!

We’ll be done at 7:00pm, clean up and load up until 7:30pm, and then be back in Sunnyvale by 8:30pm.

Please check with your parents to see if they are willing to help drive some students. If your parent drives, your $10.00 fee is waived.

Feel free to invite your friends and hand out this nifty flyer .

Click here to print out the flyer

As the annual Diocesan Youth Retreat (formerly known as ‘Tahoe’) is only about a month away, Resurrection Parish is proud to announce that it will be sending a total of TEN (10) teens and young adults from our parish! This is more than the previous 3 years combined!

To help fundraise and offset the cost of the retreat for each person ($310.00 for teens), the students will be hosting a bake sale after the 8:30am, 10:00am. 11:30am, and 5:30pm masses this Sunday, May 15^th. We are looking for fantastic bakers out there who would like to support our efforts by donating baked goods. From cookies, to cupcakes, to full sized cakes… no amount of baked goods is too small!

If you are able and willing to help us out, please:

1. Bring your baked good to parking lot side of the main church anytime between 8:00am and 12:30pm, or, between 5:00pm and 6:30pm.
2. Describe your baked good with a label
3. If your baked good contains nuts, please indicate so

You have been so generous in the past and I want to thank you for supporting our program as we continue to grow and serve the youth and young adults in our community. Our goal this year is to reduce the cost of the retreat by 75.00 (roughly 25%) per student. Please help us reach our goal!

Thank you,

Jonathan Luu

Youth Ministry and Young Adult Coordinator

Youth Band & Choir Director

jonathan@resparish.org

(408) 490-0575

A word from Resurrection Parish’s St. Vincent de Paul program:

Our St.Vincent de Paul group from Resurrection Church is scheduled to bag rice and beans at Sunnyvale Community Services (SCS) on Tuesday May 17, 2011 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. SCS is located at 725 Kifer Road in Sunnyvale between Fair Oaks and Wolfe Road.  We need ~25 volunteers to help bag rice & beans for distribution to low income families and seniors in our community. If you are available to help, would you be so kind as to send me an email or contact me at 408.773.9466. Students (thirteen years and older) are welcome to participate. Please come and help the less fortunate families in our community. Thank you!

God Bless You!

Donna Beres

Hi everyone,

Hope your Lenten journey has been one full of prayer and reflection. As we’ve announced at the last two S.N.L. meetings, RYM is signed up to sponsor the Stations of the Cross and Lenten Soup Supper this Friday from 6:00pm until 8:30pm. I don’t know how else to make this mean more when I type it but: WE NEED YOUR HELP!

For those of you that have participated before, you already know how much coordination and teamwork it takes to pull off these two events that our parish community is counting on us for! Here’s a rundown of all the help we need:

• Prayer leaders (readers) for the fourteen stations of the cross (we need multiple readers so we can switch off)
• Altar servers who would like to process with the cross and maybe even the candles to further enhance the devotional prayer atmosphere
• Tech person to operate the projector slideshow
• A few singers to help sing the responses for each station
• Several strong people to help setup chairs and tables in Farana Center for the soup supper
• Cover all tables with butcher paper as tablecloths
• Help in the kitchen
  • Cutting oranges and lemons
  • Filling pitchers of drinking water for the tables
  • Sorting spoons and soup bowls
  • Warming up and serving loaves of bread
  • Laying out all the pots of soup ahead of time
• Serving soup to our community
• *Helping to provide a total of 12-15 pots of soup*
• Helping to teardown and clean up Farana Center after the soup supper is over

Obviously, having enough soup to serve everyone is very important. If you cannot attend but are able to donate a pot of soup, please consider doing so. Simply drop off your pot of soup after 6:00pm in Farana Center clearly marked with tape and marker 1) your name and 2) what kind of soup you prepared (umm, no meat, yeah?). If both you and your parents enjoy cooking, how about cooking two pots of soup?

Please contact the RYM office at youth@resparish.org or (408) 490-0575 and let us know if you’ll be able to help.

Together, we can do anything… and have a whole lot of fun at the same time

–Jonathan

For those of you who are new to praying Stations of the Cross at Resurrection, every Friday during Lent, Resurrection hosts a devotional prayer time in the main church at 6:00pm. Members of the community follow Via Crucis or “The Way of the Cross” by praying and meditating on the fourteen stations of the cross. The fourteen stations of the cross remind us of Christ’s journey to the cross and ultimately his crucifixion.

Immediately following the Stations of the Cross, a simple soup supper is provided free of charge. Donations are accepted to be given to a charity chosen by the hosts of the supper (Resurrection Youth Ministry in this case). The soup supper typically begins around 7:00pm and lasts until 8:00pm or 8:30pm.

Our St.Vincent de Paul group from Resurrection Church is scheduled to bag groceries at Sunnyvale Community Services on Tuesday March 29, 2011 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Sunnyvale Community Services is located at 725 Kifer Road in Sunnyvale between Fair Oaks and Wolfe Road.  We need ~25 volunteers to help prepare hundreds of bags of groceries for low income families and seniors in our community. If you are available to help, would you be so kind as to send me an email or contact me at 408.773.9466. Students (thirteen years and older) are welcome to participate. Please come and help the less fortunate families in our community. Thank you!

God Bless You!
Donna Beres