While some things have changed and evolved over the years, our mission of proclaiming the Gospel has remained constant. With the support of so many friends and benefactors, NET has become one of the leading youth evangelization organizations in the United States and beyond. For that, we are deeply grateful.

Alumni and friends of NET Ministries spent the past weekend in joyful celebration of NET’s 30 years of ministry. On Friday night, hundreds of alumni flocked to the NET Center in West St. Paul to dine on wine and cheese while catching up with old friends. Some stayed overnight in our dorm rooms while others stayed in nearby hotels.

Saturday brought a flurry of activity. Alumni, host families, benefactors, friends, family members, and the general public were invited to join us for our special 30th anniversary Mass and program at the Church of St. Joseph in West St. Paul. The turnout was phenomenal – approximately 600 people joined us to celebrate the Eucharist before celebrating NET’s 30 years. Most Reverend John C. Nienstedt, Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, celebrated the Mass along with 11 priests (9 of which were NET alumni), an alumni deacon, and three alumni seminarians. Members of the NET DOXA praise and worship team led the congregation in prayerful music.

After the Mass attendees viewed a video of the history of NET, watched as three of our alumni were honored for their exemplary service to the Church after their time with NET (read more about these individuals in an upcoming blog post), and congratulated Mark Berchem, Founder and Executive Director of NET Ministries, on his leadership throughout the past 30 years. Events later that evening included a cake reception and alumni campfire.

On Sunday morning the visiting alumni gathered together for Mass with our alumni priests followed by a time of praise and worship, confession, and prayer. The alumni were invited to join us for a catered banquet before the real fun began:

• A program consisting of “forbidden entertainment” (funny skits that teams used to do in the early years which are no longer allowed)
• A fashion show highlighting the NET shirts through the years
• Words of inspiration and wisdom from our alumni award winners (including a dance by Sister Consolata)
• Praise and worship songs featuring oldies and newer ones from each decade

Without the generosity of our donors large and small, we wouldn’t be here to celebrate 30 years of ministry. Thank you to our donors, benefactors, and partners. You play a crucial role in helping us spread the Gospel to 60,000 young Catholics every year.

The weekend was a huge success, both in sheer numbers and in the great work that the Lord did in the hearts of our alumni and guests. Whether or not you were able to attend, we are grateful for your support of our ministry.

Hello fellow Team 3 followers! Praise the Lord for He has been so good to us. We have finished up our last diocese of Stockton, California and have spent the last week in the diocese of El Paso, Texas.

It was such a blessing to be in Stockton, California because we got to go to two of our teammates’ hometowns where we met Jessica Jordan’s parents and David Sandler’s family. We first were at David’s home where we all ate dinner with his good family friends. They shared great stories about David as a kid and we all laughed together. We also had the pleasure of serving at David’s Parish, Saint Anne’s, which was really cool because we got to encounter his beautiful parish community who were very loving. It was very life-giving to be there. While we were there for our team day we went to San Francisco where we got to see the crazy life of the city while walking down the Golden Gate Bridge and Pier 39. After great retreats at Saint Stanislaus in Modesto and Presentation in Stockton, we ended the diocese in Turlock where we served a 10 hour retreat at Jessica Jordan’s parish, Our Lady of Assumption. It was awesome to be there because we got to put faces to all the stories that Jessica tells as well as meet people that she loves and who love her. For our team day we got to attend ARMEE (which stands for Adoration, Reconciliation, Mass, Eucharist, and Evangelization) where there is Eucharistic adoration and worship everyday Monday night at Our Lady of Assumption. Every ARMEE session starts off with a talk which Jessica gave while we were there. She talked about her beautiful experience with NET Ministries and the conversion that has happened in her life from it. It was a gift to be there. It was a blessing to be at both of our teammates’ parishes and it was pleasure to meet their families and to love people whom our teammates love.

After all of this excitement, it wasn’t very long until we found ourselves back in van together traveling through Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona, to get to Texas to finish up our last diocese of the year. It is so crazy to think how far we have come; from traveling across the country, to how many lives we have affected with our Lord’s message of love, and how far we have come as a team… we are truly a family and we love each other so much! We have worked so hard; we have given and given until we have thought that we could not give anymore. As warriors for the Lord we have fought for His children every day; from the amazing people we meet, to the brother or sisters sitting next to us in the van. It has been hard, but no matter the pain or tiredness or times when we wanted to give up or have failed or when we have to completely die to ourselves…there is a certain joy and supernatural satisfaction that happens in our hearts when we see the fruits from our labor. It is in those moments where a middle schooler shakes our hand with tears in her eyes saying, “Thank you for changing my life today,” or that host mom who gives you a long tight hug at 1:00 in the morning after she shared deep things about her life because we were the only ones who would listen, or that priest who looks at you with hope in his eyes because of the enthusiasm for the faith that we brought to his community, or that moment when you realize that the teammate that you struggled with the most at the beginning of the year has been the one who has led you closest to Christ and you then see how you have grown to love everything about that person… it is in those moments that our labor is more than worth it. It has been one of the most amazing and life changing experiences we have ever had. How great is our Lord’s will for us! And how great your life can be when you truly trust Him and give Him every part of your heart and life!

In this all, I can’t help but think about how proud God MUST be! How He must see all of the work that we have done and how we have been victorious in this service! I can’t help what think that He looks at me and my team with eyes of love and says, “Well done, my good and faithful servant… in you I take great delight.” What an AMAZING and victorious accomplishment! And how far we have grown in relationship with ourselves and others, but most importantly, with Him! I am at a loss for words and in great awe of what this year has done in our lives. All I can say is all praise and glory go to God, because He is the vine and we are the branches. Without Him we can do nothing, but with Him we can do anything! John 15: 1-27

We cannot thank you enough for all of your love and support that you have given us all year. Our hearts will be forever grateful for what all you (our supporters) have done for us! May God bless you all the days of your life.

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In Him, Through Her,
-Team 3

Our Lady of Guadalupe… PRAY FOR US!

He Has Brought Us to New Life! Happy Easter! Alleluia! Alleluia! He is risen!

We have been experiencing many glorious things throughout these past few weeks. We finished up our retreats in Baldwin Park, La Puente, Tujundra, and we even stayed with the Carmelite Sisters in LA and spent Holy Week in Rancho Cucamonga.

Before the excitement of Holy Week and we shared great times with NET alumni in Baldwin Park as we did retreats there, and as a team we stayed with the beautiful Carmelite Sisters while we did retreats for the local Catholic schools for three days. On a team day, some of us went to Six Flags and we also went ice skating. Our retreats are still so fruitful and awesome; some of the “Share Your NET Experience” forms that I collect blow me away as young people share about how they were affected by our testimonies, talks, small group discussion, our example and the way we love each other as a team, or when they truly feel God’s presence in prayer. Some even share how their time on retreat was so powerful that it inspires them to pray MORE or to be nicer to their parents or to just BE GOOD because they know that is what God wants and that is what will give them peace. These things are very encouraging for us as a team to keep persevering, yet we have been getting very tired. We went on an Oasis Retreat given by Maegan Frazier in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, and it was really refreshing. It was nice to reflect on what the Lord has been doing in our lives, and to be able to just be still and see the conversion that has changed us. Through deep discussion and rest, it truly brought our team closer together. After that day we still had about a week and a half more of retreats left before our days off during the Triduum and we were still tired.

During the Triduum we were so blessed to be able to stay at host homes in Rancho Cucamonga with the parents of two people who are actually serving with NET this year as well: Madison Mandala and Daniel Rivera. It was so great getting to know their families deeply; by sharing stories, laughter, good food, worship and love with one another. While we were staying there for about four nights, the brotherhood bonded over video games, sports, swimming, and funny jokes, and the sisterhood bonded over good rest, baking cookies, watching movies and a special treat from our team leader Anney, which was pedicures for all the sisters. But for Easter, we all went to mass together in the morning and then went over the Riveras’ house where more great families joined us in more great company. They put together games with prizes for us such as a hula hoop game, a shaving game, red light- green light, and an epic Easter egg hunt! It was so much fun for the team to relax and allow others to lead us through games instead of us always leading others in games. All of Easter and the Triduum was so great and truly life-giving.

Easter has been so great! We have loved every moment of it. We missed singing the Alleluia and the Gloria for Mass. Lent just has a way of really making you spiritually dry which is a gift because then we fully grow in union with the Lord in the desert, but when we are dry spiritually makes it even more challenging to do retreats and live the crazy life style on the road. It was because of the feeling of “death” in our hearts that was why this Easter was so rich. We found greater love for Jesus through the resurrection! We have worked so hard and have been giving so much. We sometimes grow so tired that it becomes difficult to see any fruit at all in the desert, but in that death to ourselves, we fully embraced our cross and we grew in union with the Lord. We had experienced the resurrection in our souls because we felt Jesus Christ provide a new energy and grace in our hearts. So through this Easter season we have truly seen fruits in ourselves from our Lent while on the road. It is just like Blessed JPII said, as Christians we are made into a “new creation” and receive “new life” during Easter, which is exactly what our team has experienced. We are excited to go and spread the good news of Jesus Christ’s resurrection and promise of new life because we feel the good news of the resurrection in our hearts!

Thank you for all of your prayers, we pray for you every day! We hope you had a great Holy Week! May God bless you in this Easter Season!

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Love,
Team 3

Our Lady of Guadalupe…PRAY FOR US!

Greetings from Team Six in the damp and beautiful state of Washington! We were busy putting on tons of retreats in this state and so amazed by the generosity and kindness showed to us. To update you all on our numbers, we have reached a little over 90 retreats, with almost 5,000 young people having been on our retreats in these past 6 months we have spent doing retreats.

While in Washington, we found ourselves doing a lot of the retreat theme “Why Catholic?” which explains to young people many fundamentals about our Catholic faith and really gets teens on fire and excited about being Catholic. Most of the retreats were also for middle school students, but the Lord really seemed to be working and changing the hearts of so many teens in this diocese.

Our team got to visit the Seattle Public Market, seeing fish being thrown. A few of us also got to go to the Space Needle and ride the Monorail. Starbucks has been something we see more frequently than gas stations in this state and we even got to go to to first Starbucks location near the public market! While at an inspiring parish in Bremerton (Our Lady, Star Of The Sea), Madi got a visit from her mother and sister, Josie, who got to hang out with us during one of our drama practices! The sisters of Team Six also got to experience a time of pampering before an overnight retreat with facials, hairstyling (and cutting), and nail painting for a Woman’s Session one day. Check out the pictures to see the fun!

While in the Archdiocese of Seattle, we also got to go on a personal retreat for our team near the end of the Lenten Season. The retreat was led by two NET alumni and really helped our team to refocus and grow even more in our relationships with Christ. Following this, we elebrated Easter with Cathy’s family in Washington and Oregon. From Vigil Masses, to amazing food, to intense Easter egg hunts, our team had so much fun getting to better know Cathy’s family and getting to experience Easter in a family.

Though we have been staying busy, God has been working so much and we feel so blessed to get to be a part of this ministry!

Team Member Focus: Cathy Perkins

Cathy, age 20, comes from Centralia, Washington. Her family has moved around a bit, as they have also resided in Oregon and Pennsylvania. She has an older sister and a younger brother who grew up in a “loving and entertaining” family. Cathy has attended a few years of college for general education and plans on going back to finish her degree after her time with NET. It was her youth minister back home who encouraged Cathy to consider joining NET. While she enjoys swing dancing and painting, she claims that one of her greatest talents is being able to touch her tongue to her nose. Cathy has blessed her team greatly with her gifts from the Lord. Her roles on the team include Recruiting and Greeting. In her role of recruiting, she is responsible for helping to share information and help high school students or college students find out more about NET and encourage them to pray about it. So far, many teens we have met on retreat have applied, been interviewed and a few even accepted to serve with NET Ministries next year from August 2012 to May 2013! Her other team role is greeter where she is in charge of being that first friendly face which teens see on retreat. This role also includes splitting up the retreatants into small groups to better process and talk more about their faith and what they are learning in a smaller setting. Please pray for Cathy, as she gets ready to head back home, that God may reveal and open up her heart to His will for the rest of her life.

Prayer Intentions:

• For all those who are serving with NET this year, that God may fill them with his grace and peace as this year nears its closing.
• For all those discerning their vocation, whether to religious life, single life or matrimony, that God may make his will clear for them and bring them peace.
• For all the teens we have encountered who have been struggling with peer pressure, bullying, body image, hardships at home, divorce or health issues and anything else that they may be burdened with, that they may feel God ever at their side and know His love and mercy.

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Team 6

We spent three days at the NET Center last week for the Benefactor’s Banquet.  It was great to be able to meet and personally thank so many people that have supported NET Ministries.  Before heading back to Lakeville, we met Fr. Kelly for dinner and rode the light rail into Minneapolis to Target Field for a Twins game!  Most of us had never been to a game, but we all love baseball so it was really fun.  We decked ourselves out in Twins gear and had a great night together.

For our last team day, we went on our Oasis Retreat.  All of the teams go on a retreat in the spring, but because of scheduling conflicts ours didn’t happen until the end of the year.  The timing couldn’t have been better though.  We went back to Fr. Kelly’s family farm for our retreat (where you may remember, we had a team day early on in the year) and the day consisted mainly of prayer.  Fr. Kelly led the retreat and talked to us about “Christian Friendship”.  After the talk, the women went to the chapel for Exposition and, led by Fr. Kelly, we prayed over each sister.  The brothers then prayed over each other in the chapel with Fr. Kelly.  Next, the sisterhood had a private holy hour in the chapel and the brothers had quiet time for prayer and relaxation.  Then, the hoods switched and the brothers had a holy hour while the sisters prayed/relaxed.  The whole afternoon was spent in silence and with Jesus and it was really peaceful.  We rounded out the day with praise and worship together in the chapel.  Then, we discussed the graces that we received from the day and things that we are thankful for.  The cherry on top of this beautiful day was that Fr. Kelly joined us for ice cream at Dairy Queen on our way back to Lakeville!

Melissa and Kate had the opportunity to go to the Casting Crowns/Matthew West concert at the Target Center with four high school girls.  It was a really memorable concert because it was more like a retreat!

As far as ministry goes, we’re still doing new things up until the very end.  The senior high youth ministry had a Mall of America Scavenger Hunt/ Movie Night event last weekend that we all attended and we had a lot of fun with the youth.  We went off with groups searching for various images and doing random tasks around the mall.  After the scavenger hunt, we had the option of seeing one of two movies: The Lucky One or Lockout with the youth.  It was a great evening of fun and fellowship!  Also, we recently hosted another “Praise and Worship Night” and we are confident that these nights of worship paired with DOXA in some way will be really transformative for the youth at this parish in years to come.

We as an entire team led MOVE (the weekly high school youth group event at the parish) on Wednesday night.  The topic was Theology of the Body paired with dating and seeking purity and topics of that nature.  Needless to say, it wouldn’t have been the topic of choice for us to talk about, but it was great for us to be able to be role models to the youth and the information that we were presenting was well received.  Also, prior to MOVE, we played ultimate frisbee with youth outside and had a beautiful day and a great turnout to play.

We did a “NET power hour” with the fifth grade classes at All Saints in an effort to prepare them for the NET team that will be here next year.  Since we work primarily with middle and high school aged youth, we wanted to give the fifth graders a little bit of a heads up to be ready for the team next year.  We had a lot of fun doing skits, playing games with them and sharing the Gospel.  It was really refreshing to see their faith and their knowledge of Jesus.

We hosted a much anticipated pizza party to kick off “NET Week” at the parish.  The party was a celebration of surpassing our goal of consuming 1,000 slices of pizza (by the way, we’re at 1,227 slices).  We were blown away by the number of people that came to our party.  From kindergarteners to grandparents, there were about 100 people present.  We were scrambling to make more pizza and set up more tables, praise God!  It was a great event, the beginning of the end if you will, and an opportunity to see a lot of people before we left.

There are a lot of goodbyes for a parish team.  With goodbye there are a lot of lasts.  Last school lunch, last open youth room, last open team prayer, and this is the last blog that you will read from Team 10.  The end of our NET experience this year is very bittersweet.  We are preparing to leave Lakeville, the community that we’ve come to know and love.  We trust that the Lord has planted seeds in the youth and their families during our time here, but it is still going to be very difficult to leave all of the people that we’ve formed relationships with over the past year.  At this time of year, we are recognizing an extra challenge to being on a parish team and that is that we have an entire community to say goodbye to in addition to our team.  We’ve formally said goodbye to our host families, the staff at All Saints, the middle schoolers at All Saints, and our small groups and DT groups.  We have 33 families that have loved us and provided a home away from home for us, an entire parish staff that has taken us under their wing, and hundreds of youth that we have met, built relationships with, and journey with toward the cross side by side.  We have been extremely blessed in the way that we were welcomed and accepted in this community, and it is certainly bitter sweet to be leaving.

We ask that you pray for the Lakeville Parish Team that will be here at All Saints next year.  We don’t know who they are, but we know that they will be beautiful witnesses to God’s love.  Please also pray for us, as we transition first from Lakeville to the NET Center, then from the NET Center back to our homes.  Please pray for the continued conversion of our hearts as we make a dramatic shift in lifestyle and community.  Each of us will be challenged in different ways, but nonetheless the change will be a challenge for all of us.  Thank you for being such a support to our ministry and our team.  We are all so thankful for this experience; it has truly changed our lives.

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Team 10

In both of those dioceses we have been taken care of so well. While we were in the New Orleans area the whole team was invited to a pool party with all of our host families for the evening. We were able to meet a few people who would be on retreat the next day and get to know the other host families, and not to mention hang out in the pool. As a team we went to an ice cream shop after a retreat and when we walked in there was a Catholic priest who didn’t know about NET Ministries. We had the opportunity to tell him about it and he ended up buying all of our ice cream! Thank you, Father Ray!

While we were in the New Orleans area we also stayed at a retreat center called Camp Abbey which was great because we had retreats right there and we were able to have some down time. On our team day we headed into New Orleans to walk around for the day which was pretty cool to see.

Our time in the Diocese of Venice was really nice but a quick stay. We got to Venice on Friday and we had a whole weekend retreat for youth from all over the diocese which lasted until Sunday afternoon. This retreat was great because we had a lot of time to get to know the youth and we had Adoration and Reconciliation on Saturday. The Bishop celebrated Mass for us all on Sunday morning. Sunday night our team had the opportunity to go to dinner with the bishop and some of our contact people which was a lot of fun and it was a good time to talk about the retreat and just have some good laughs. We had our 99th retreat in Naples for 6th-8th graders from a local school. They were a great group of youth. Yes, you read that right… 99th retreat. We have only one more retreat as a team this year which will bring us to exactly 100 retreats according to our stats man. Our last retreat is on Saturday, May 5, then we head back to the NET center for a week of preparation to go back home.

Please keep our team in your prayers as we finish this last retreat and finish our travel for the year.

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God Bless,
Team 2 – Rose, Tim, Todd, Seth, Katie, Jen, Amy, Michael, Erica, and Charley

Hello from the Upper Peninsula!

We are currently on our way our last diocese, the diocese of Marquette, MI which is the Upper Peninsula. Before coming to this diocese, we led retreats in the dioceses of Kalamazoo, MI and Detroit, MI. As of today the team only has three retreats left! After these retreats we will drive Cletus back to the NET Center in West St. Paul, MN for Wrap-Up week and then head home May 13th. It’s fair to say that coming to the end of the year brings very mixed emotions for us all. It has been about four months since we have been home, so there is an excitement at seeing family and friends again. At the same time, we all know the end of the year will mean some really tough goodbyes to one another and the other missionaries. We will be able to stay in contact, but nothing will be quite the same as living the NET lifestyle together all day every day.

As you might assume, a year on the road with NET means a lot of growth in your faith, in how you handle relationships, and as a person. Here are thoughts from some of our team members about how the Lord has worked this year on the road.

• Rosie: A big theme of my year is trust, and accepting the humbling moment of realizing that I can’t take control, but that He is the one in control… Through those moments of trying to do things on my own and Jesus being like, “Come on, Rosie.”
• Gavin: In the battle of our mission, the Lord is our the commander who directs us through the hardships and to face the trails of life through suffering, joy, and love.
• Kayla: In a year on the road, I realized in a tangible way that Christ must be your everything, like your support, your joy, your Father pushing you to grow and above all, your Savior.
• Kevin: Jesus is awesome. Amen.

We have been so blessed this year by the Lord and how He has been fathering us from Heaven. He will challenge us in some way and push us until we feel like we are at our limit, and then just before we hit that limit, He grants us rest, or grace, or joy. And in that push and pull of life with Him on NET, you can see Him working to increase one virtue or another which is a blessing in itself.

Recently the brothers and the sisters have taken time to honor one another. The brothers coordinated a surprise NET retreat just for the sisters. They did skits for us, made up and performed a drama, wrote a talk about us, and prayed over us to end the retreat. They even did all of this in their NET polos which was possibly the biggest sacrifice since many of us get a little tired of our polos by the end of the year. The sisters honored the brothers by pulling together a movie night for them, serving them snacks, and giving them time as a brotherhood. The sisters also committed to allowing them to get their food first (they always wait for us), to choose their spot in the van, and to pray a rosary for the brothers on the 9th of each month for the year to come. This year living as sisters and brothers has been an amazing way to grow in understanding of the opposite gender and how to work together. Living in a sisterhood or a brotherhood has been huge in learning how to be a holy man of God or holy woman of God.

Well, this is the end of the last blog update! We would like to thank everyone who has made this year so blessed, from sponsors, to retreatants, to host families, to parish staff, to our own family and friends. Your thoughts, prayers, and care for all of us has meant so much. We know that Christ will bless you in turn for your goodness to us.

We pray that the grace we have been given this year will continue to light your lives. And while we have come to the end of this year, we know that the love we have been given from Christ will continue to draw our hearts together as we pray that “your love may increase ever more and more,” (Phil 1:9).

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Peace out,
Team 9
Tiffany, Cristina, Maria, Amanda, Kayla, Rosie, Gavin, Kevin, Ivan, David, and Billy!

A couple of weekends ago, we also were able to go to the Cathedral in St. Paul and watch our youth be confirmed into the Catholic Church. A few days later we went to the NET Center to help prepare for the huge benefit banquet for the many wonderful donors that help support NET. This past Saturday we had a “Last Chance” party for all of the youth to hang out with us for one of our last weekends. We had a huge nine square tournament as the highlight of the night, coloring for the young ones, board games, pizza, and the sisters of our team performed a wonderful African dance for everyone at the end of the night. It was great seeing all of the youth together to hang out with us before we head back home.

We are all staying together as a team with the Utechts, a beautiful host family who also served with NET back in the day, for our last two weeks in Hastings. It has been so fun getting to hear their stories from when they did NET in the 80s and comparing and seeing what it was like then and now, as well as sharing our stories and experiences with them. Last Friday we had Catherine and Ethan plan our team day, where they took us to a really cool roller rink that we got for just the team, where we were able to skateboard, rollerblade, bike and just run around crazily. Chris Masankgay unfortunately hurt his back, so please keep him in yours prayers.

Thank you to all of those family members, friends or any others who have been following our blog since we have started this amazing mission that we have been called to in Hastings, Minnesota. We have had such a wonderful experience here at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, but it is quickly coming to a close with our last day being this upcoming Sunday. Please keep our team in yours prayers as we close our ministry officially in Hastings and please pray for all of the fantastic adults that will be taking our place here as a core team for the youth group program.

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God Bless you,
Team 8: Kayla, Sarah, Catherine, Emily, Julia, Katerina, Josh, Chris M., Cameron, Ethan, Christopher W., Brandon

Stepping into the unknown can bring a range of emotions such as excitement, uncertainty, dependence, and change – but it is not until you take the step that you find out. I am almost certain that we all experienced quite a mixture but as Padre Pio states: “Do not be frightened. Rejoice because when you least expect it, the Lord will make light shine in the darkness.” The partnership of NET and Providence Academy has been the beginning of a radical life changing journey. Not only for us the first established team, the many teams to come, but most especially the students, host families, and faculty members.

On April 21st with combined help of students, parents, faculty, and Netters we were able to have the first ever Lifeline West! There was a most positive effect after Lifeline West. The youth seemed to love Richard Carrillo’s talk and when the students were preparing for Adoration they entered in with open hearts. It was truly evident the Holy Spirit was moving within each student.

Through the help of the Holy Spirit our presence has been able to bring much joy throughout the yellow walls of Providence. “Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will,” – Thomas Aquinas. Each student has the freedom to love and embrace Christ’s love in return. Within this year there have been some challenging moments but mainly victorious endeavors. It is truly evident within our ministry with the upper school and middle schoolers.

The middle school student council formulated an assembly to show their appreciation by affirming all eight Netters and gave us a medal of honor. It brought us a great amount of joy. Bright and early one of the middle school teachers brought a bundle of personalized thank you cards from many middle schoolers, saying things such as, “You helped me understand God’s glory”, “We at PA love you all because you guys are outgoing, fun (not dull) sing a lot, and much much more”, “Thank you for teaching me that it’s okay to be single and that we can look fantastic without being immodest.”

To all our friends, donors, and family members – thank you for your dedicated prayers. The Lord did some major work not only within our ministry here at Providence Academy but all ten other NET teams proclaiming his name. Please pray that wherever the Lord takes us next we will go obediently, joyfully, and trustingly. We love ya’ll! “Let us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our harvest if we do not give. So then, while we have the opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who belong to the family of the faith,” – Galations 6:7-8.

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-The family of Team 11
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pray for us!