Life Teen Missions

06/06/2024

2024 STATE OF THE YOUTH PREVIEW

04/08/2024

02/11/2024

Congrats to the Servants of Christ Jesus whose service has been crucial to the spiritual life of Life Teen Missions!

Today is our 20th Birthday! Fr. John and Fr. Paul founded the community on this day in 2004 at Franciscan University of Steubenville. We will have a weekend of celebration. Please pray for us on this occasion of remembering how good God is - for His mercy endures forever! Would you please pray this for us?

Father, we thank you for your community, the Servants of Christ Jesus. Please help the men to empty themselves so Jesus may live in and through them. Grant them faithfulness to their vows and increased fruitfulness for your kingdom. We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen.

02/02/2024

Nate was a summer missionary with Life Teen several years ago.

Three-day marriage of Franciscan University graduates witnesses beautiful blessing of a baby after groom’s death.

01/24/2024

Emily Mitchell, our Missions Administrative Assistant, breaking open “Disciple’s Heart” formation with the Hidden Lake missionaries. One of the main documents we use for this formation is “Story of a Soul” by St Thérèse. Pray for our missionaries as they dive into what sainthood looks like for them and God’s call upon their lives.

01/10/2024

Encounter brotherhood, restoration, and inspiration for a weekend. Registration is open for our Men’s Retreat at Camp Hidden Lake in two months.

Invite a friend and take advantage of this opportunity to strengthen your relationship with God and grow in community with your brothers in Christ this March 8-10!

01/05/2024

Pray for our first year missionaries who are currently on their 8-day silent retreat, being led in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola by their amazing spiritual directors, Fr. James & Br. Thomas of Servants of Christ Jesus, Amy Perez, and Sr. Elizabeth of the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R. of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother. Big thanks to FrTim Grumbach & Fr. Paul Nacey for coming to help celebrate masses and hear confessions!

12/25/2023

“When the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.”

12/21/2023

Here’s to the upcoming semester growing abundantly closer to the Lord than what we have at John 15.

12/10/2023

God moved many hearts on our recent mission trip to Grand Isle, Louisiana—ours and those of the people we served.

Ministry to the local community included a high school retreat, a retreat for parents, XLT for the parish, Lectio Divina with teens before school, and a Eucharistic procession around town.

Work projects involved landscaping at the parish and repairs and renovations at local homes still recovering from 2021’s Hurricane Ida.

Other highlights:
💃 Cajun dance lessons
⛪️ Spiritual formation for us
🏝 Sabbath time at the beach
🍤 Home-cooked Cajun meals including a dinner sponsored by Tony Chachere's
🏫 Relational ministry during lunch at the school
🏀 Dancing to “Church Clap” during half-time of the high school basketball game

Ask a missionary to tell you a glory story from the week!