This document outlines a summer fellowship program with the goals of renewing participants' faith and helping them strengthen their personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It encourages leaders to reflect on who Jesus is to them and their testimony of faith, in order to guide children and youth spiritually. The fellowship provides an opportunity to deepen one's knowledge of faith through study, intensify living faith through liturgy and devotion, and share faith experiences with others inside and outside of the community.

1. SUMMER FELLOWSHIP 2014
LET’S GO, BE SOMEBODY WITH JESUS
LEADERS’ FORMATION

2. We are CHRISTIAN leaders
• We MUST TO GIVE TESTIMONY of our
Christian faith.
• We EDUCATE / GUIDE our children and youth
in the Christian faith.
• We WANT to help them to GROW UP
spiritually.
• But we cannot GIVE what WE HAVE NO.

4. 1. Who is Jesus for you?
2. What can you say about Jesus?
3. Why are you a Christian?

5. During the Year of Faith, Benedict XVI invited all
the catholic to a deep CONVERSION … And this
conversion is just possible if we OPEN THE
“DOOR OF FAITH”. We need to open the door of
faith again, walk through it and rediscover and
renew our personal relationship with Jesus and
his Church.

6. Faith is a continuous cycle. The
more you practice your faith, the
stronger it will grow. The firm
foundation of faith will sustain you
even in difficult times.
Continuous Cycle

7. • We need to RENEW our faith again and again …
• But it is not possible if we have no a PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIP with Jesus
• What kind of personal relationship you have
with Him?

8. • R u escaping from Him?
• R u afraid of Him?
• R u avoiding Him?
• Do u have a deep relationship with Him?
• Are in you in love with Him?
• What is Jesus waiting
from you?

10. The way to RENEW our FAITH
includes three challenges:
1.Know the faith
2.Live the faith
3.Share the faith

11. Deepening knowledge of faith
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Bible Study
Catechesi
Homily
Spiritual direction

12. Living faith more intensely
• Intensify the celebration of the faith in the
liturgy, especially in the Eucharist.
• Eucharistic Adoration
• Sacrament of confession.
• Personal preyer
• Devotions (rosary, the Stations of the Cross …)
• Works of charity

13. Sharing our faith
• Inside the community, sharing
with our brothers and sisters
our experience of God.
• Outside the community.
Public expression of faith:
identifying always as Catholics,
defending our faith and
inviting others to believe in
Jesus Christ.
• Using all our resources.

14. Summer Fellowship:
OPPORTUNITY TO
PREACH THE GOSPEL

15. • Jesus is NOT FOR JUST FOR YOU, it’s for
EVERYBODY, FOR EVERY ONE …
• You are a MESSENGER, THE MESSENGER OF
THE LOVE OF GOD …
• Our children, our youth need to experience
that YOU LOVE JESUS … Then they will
discover that JESUS LOVES THEM.