At the begining of 2008, Sylvie met four young teenagers from the church. They gathered together each Sunday afternoon after Mass to play Baseball, watch a movie, talk or visit a place in Manhattan such as Museums or touristic places. Sunday after sunday they built a real friendship. Here, Sylvie shares some of the youth group news with us, and explains to us how their friendship increases ceaselessly.
Sunday after Sunday, I see Junior’s smile changing and more sure. He is not as agitated as he was when he started to come. Now he is part of the group, and everybody considers him a member of the Heart’s Home teen’s group.
Since 2008, our little youth group grew up in number and belonging. Heart’s Home gives them the opportunity to experience a real and true friendship between them, us and the Church. As friends we say the Creed and learn the answers of the Mass. That gives them a sense of what happens every Sunday morning and make the Mystery of the Eucharist more tangible, closer...
This friendship gives us also the desire to spend time together and to do something, to go somewhere, to visit somebody. That’s how we went to visit the French Navy Boat «la Jeanne-d’Arc» making a stopover in NY for few days. Exceptional moments for everybody! For the Chaplain who never had American teens in visit on the boat and obviously for the teens also who had their first visit on a « warship ». They were so proud to visit a French Ship. It was like going to France for a moment.
«We went to France, Mom, and came back... everything was written in French on the boat... .»
This summer, like last year, we would like to make a Summer Camp in Up State NY at the ICCC. We are planning on a two day camping trip in the countryside with tents and sleeping bags… a privileged time to grow our friendship and discover a different reality somehow more real than computer and virtual games…
Heart’s Home is an International Organization that creates links with people, becoming friend with our neighbors, but also with the friends of my friends in the other side of the world. One aspect of the youth group is also to open the mind and the heart of all these teens to other realities of the world. That’s why we decided to open an account on Facebook to have friends from all over the word and be part of our adventure...
Come and join us on Facebook to have some news of the youth group: http://www.facebook.com/people/Yout...
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