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About Youth and Children's Ministry
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The Youth and Children's Ministry (YCM) team assists deaneries and parishes to nurture Catholic Christian spirituality in young people from sacramental initiation to early twenties. YCM provides support, resources and training to assist deaneries and parishes to: - provide faith development opportunities for children and young people in family, parish and deanery settings
- prepare and catechise children and young people for sacraments
- train and support those who minister to children and young people in family, parish, state school and deanery contexts
- develop and sustain effective coordination of ministry with children and young people
- connect young people with broader church experiences across deanery and Archdiocese, eg World Youth Day
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Archdiocesan priority focus
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...that young people are helped by a set of faith development opportunities to integrate their faith with everyday experience
Youth and Children’s Ministry was established in 2005. It bought together Parish Youth Ministry Services and the State School, Parish and Family R.E. Team, both of which have had a long history of assisting parishes and deaneries in their ministry with children and young people. These two teams were combined to better address the issues named in the Archdiocesan Synod in 2003.
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