St. Joseph’s and Ss. Simon & Jude Youth Group

04/28/2025

Today we celebrated the last Youth Group of the 2024-2025 school year. This has been an amazing year with even more amazing high school students!! Thank you!!!

04/20/2025

Congratulations to one of our own Youth Group Members. Emily Begen, received the Sacraments of Baptism, First Communion and Confirmation tonight at St. Katherine Drexel parish in Springfield. Pictured with her Godparents, Bill and Michelle Bertetto.

04/19/2025

10/21/2024

Tonight Youth Group helped fulfill our mission on Mission Sunday. We made PBJ sandwiches to help feed the homeless. Thanks to Altar and Rosary Societies for the supplies and Mary and Harold Newman for taking them to the breadlines.

10/14/2024

Youth Group had its first outing of the year to the Cathedral Basilica in St. Louis. It was a great trip. First we attended Mass then we had an awesome tour guide and learned a lot of information. One of those being that we were able to be on a Pilgrimage to St. John Paul (former Pope John Paul II) as we were able to pray and stand in the same location in the same chapel that he prayed in on his visit to St. Louis.

10/06/2024

Youth Group is planning a trip to the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis on Oct 14. We will attend Mass at the Cathedral and receive a tour of this magnificent cathedral.

09/16/2024

We are having such a good time we forgot to take pictures last week. Currently we have 12 students in our High School Youth Group. Looking forward to being with them and having a great adventure over the next year and beyond.

08/25/2024

Check out the Youth Group room!!!! Couple more weeks.

08/17/2024

We have an exciting year coming up!!! We welcome all High School aged students from the Benld / Gillespie area. You don’t have to be Catholic to attend.

Group sessions start Sunday Sep 8th and continue to meet on Sundays through the school year. There is no requirement for youth to be at every session but we would love to see you as often as possible.

We will meet from 6:00 to 7:00 PM in the Youth Group room in Ss Simon and Jude school building, Gillespie.

We will have food and drinks at every event and we will have opportunities to play games/activities.

Youth group is intentionally open to others as a means to encourage young adults to grow in faith.

Youth group is a combination of utilizing Quick Lessons with Fr. Mike Schmitz of Ascension Presents, discussing and encouraging Christian beliefs in dealing with current issues that students are facing personally and in the world. We plan several trips to visit different sites and events within the region from St. Louis to Springfield.

The Youth Group will also have several opportunities for service hours.

Message us to learn more or sign up.