The document discusses several aspects of youth ministry, including the importance of young people staying rooted in their traditions and elders while also embracing their energy and vision for the future. It emphasizes creating welcoming environments for youth, engaging them in religious activities as well as arts and sports, and bringing ministry to the popular spaces young people already inhabit. The overall message is that youth ministry requires seeing young people's dignity, accompanying them, and empowering them to be missionaries in their own way.

1. CHAPTER 6
YOUNG PEOPLE W ITH ROOTS
(car e f or your r oots, because fr om the r oots comes
the s tr ength that is going to make you g r ow,
f louris h and bear fr uit.)
TREE: BEAUTIFUL, BRANCHES REACHING TO THE SKY, PUSHING EVER HIGHER,
SEEMED A SONG OF HOPE.
BUT
FOLLOWING A STORM, THEY WOULD FALLEN AND LIFELESS,
DUE TO LACKED DEEP ROOTS, SPREAD BRANCHES WITHOUT BEING FIRMLY
PLANTED, ANND FELL AS SOON AS NATURE UNLEASHED HER POWER.

2. DON’T ALLOW YOURSELVES TO
BE UPROOTED
 It is impossible for us to grow unless we have strong roots to support
us and to keep us firmly grounded
 Dear: Realize
 labourer:-having earned food for his family
 Family:-fellowship of a family at table
 Wife:-care for her sick husband despite her own failing health
 Couples:- fidelity and love for another
 Elderly people:- hold hands s they walk

3.  Men and Women:- fashionable dress, social harmony.
 Christ:-real beauty, foundations of genuine social solidarity
and the culture of encounter.
 Youth:- do not let any thing exploit your youth to promote a
shallow life that confuses beauty with appearances
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4. YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH
THE ELDERLY
 Young are focused on the future and they face life with energy and
dynamism.
 They tempted: memory of the past , gifts transmitted to them by their
parents, grand parents, cultural experience of society.
 Sir:6:34-36 if you see an intelligent man, visit him let your foot wear
out his doorstep.
 Prov:20:29 the glory of young men is their strength, but the beauty of
old men is their grey hair.

5.  P r o v : 2 3 : 2 2 – L i s t e n t o y o u r f a t h e r w h o b e g o t y o u , a n d
d o n o t d e s p i s e y o u r m o t h e r w h e n s h e i s o l d .
E p h : 6 : 2 – H o n o u r o u r f a t h e r a n d m o t h e r i s t h e f i r s t
c o m m a n d m e n t t o c a r r y a p r o m i s e w i t h i t .
( I f t h e y o u n g h a d k n o w l e d g e a n d t h e o l d s t r e n g t h ,
t h e r e w o u l d b e n o t h i n g t h e y c o u l d n o t a c c o m p l i s h )
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6. DREAMS AND VISIONS
 The old dream dreams, and the young see visions. How do the
two complement one another.
 Acts: 2:17 I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh,and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see
visions and your old men shall dream dreams

7. TAKING RISKS TOGETHER
 Old people look at life closely, often thy instinctively know what lies behind
the tangled threads, and they recognize what God can create even out of our
mistakes.
 If we journey together , young and old we can be firmly rooted in the
present , revisit the past and look to the future.

8. 7.YOUTH MINISTRY
 Young people frequently fail to find in our usual programmes a response to
their concerns, their needs, their problems and issues.
 Entire community has to be involved in evangelizing them and to take on a
greater role in pastoral outreach.
 Young people themselves are agents of youth ministry, need to be helped and
guided, but the same time left free to develop new approaches, with creativity.
 Help the young people to use their insight, ingenuity and knowledge to address
the issues and concerns of others young people in their own language.

9.  It does not matter where they are coming from or what labels
they have received whether “conservative” or “liberal”, “traditional”
or “progressive”. What is important is that we make use of
everything to bare good fruit and effectively communicates the joy of
the Gospel.
 No one should be excluded or exclude themselves
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10. MAIN COURSES OF
ACTION
 Two important approaches need to stand out in youth ministry.
The first is outreach and the second is growth.
 Outreach refers to reaching out to those who are outside the
Church through various means like social media, songs, video, songs
and other means which are able to touch the hearts of young people.
 Growth refers to those already inside the Church who should
experience all the more the love in the Christian life as they deepen
too on Christian doctrine and morality

11.  Christian doctrine should focus on the development of the kerygma
with morality focusing on the importance of fraternal love.
 All Christian formation consists of entering more deeply into the
kerygma and incarnating it ever more fully in our lives.
 Youth ministry should always include occasions fore renewing and
deepening our personal experience of the love of god and the living
Christ. Can do this in a variety of ways: testimonies, songs, moments of
adoration, reflection on the sacred scriptures, social network
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12. SUITABLE
ENVIRONMENTS
 Our institutions better equipped to be more welcoming to young
people . Since so many have real sense of being orphaned.
 Many young people today feel that they have inherited the failed
dreams of their parents and grandparents, dreams betrayed by injustice,
social violence, selfishness and lack of concern for others.
 To create a “ home” is to create “ a family”. A home as we all know,
demands that everyone work together. No one can be indifference or
stand apart, since each is a stone needed to build the home.

13.  Ask God to grant us the grace to learn how to be patient, to
forgive one another , to start over each day . To create strong bonds
requires confidence and trust nurtured daily by patience and
forgiveness.
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14. YOUTH MINISTRY IN
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
 Institutions play an important role in Youth Ministry. These should be
welcoming and be like a real home and family for young people.
 He should be placed where young people can come and go. The preservation
and or establishment of oratories and youth centers should thus be promoted.
 Also, educational institutions like schools and universities should be maintained
and these should not only give academic formation but also cultivate the kerygma
and be engaged in cultural formation

15.  Whilst these institutions should engage in various activities like
sports and art, nevertheless, the Word of the Lord, the Eucharist,
Reconciliation and the importance of the lives of the saints should
never be forgotten.
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16. AREAS NEEDING TO BE
DEVELOPED
 Silence and closeness to god
 Adore the blessed sacrament
 Pray with the word of god
 Open to contemplative prayer
 Help them embark on this precious experience

17.  Arts
 Music
 Sports
 Education and formation
 Sufferings
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18. A “POPULAR” YOUTH
MINISTRY
 Youth Ministry should not be limited to what we are familiar with but
should also go to the popular spaces where young people already are.
 This forms part of the outreach posture and it is in such spaces that
the Church can be seen as keeping open doors.
 These popular spaces will allow for the welcoming of those with a
different vision of life and those belonging to other religions or even out
of religion. The important thing to keep before our eyes is that all young
people are in God’s heart and thus in the heart of the Church.

19.  Our duty is that make them to feel that Jesus is walking with them
in all the walks of life.(Emmaus)
 They should not be looked down on, but encouraged and
promoted.
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20. ALWAYS MISSIONARIES
 Who are most frail, limited and troubled can be missionaries in their
own way.
 A young person who makes a pilgrim age to ask Our Lady for help,
and invites a friend or companion along, by that single gesture is being a
good missionary.
 Youth ministry is always missionary.
 As they are familiar with social net works, they should be encouraged
to fill them with god , fraternity and commitment.

21.  The family should be the first place of accompaniment
 youth ministry can present the ideal of life in Christ as the process of
building a house on rock.
 The community has an important role in the accompaniment of
young people. It collectively responsible for accepting, motivating,
encouraging and challenging them.
 church educational institutions are too accompany the youth.
 All this accompaniment could help them to enrich their lives in Jesus
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