S T.

M A RY ’ S Y O U T H
SUMMER 2018
PARISH FUN EVENT
MY TOP TEN
A Quarterly Newsletter for
St. Mary’s Youth & Families How Well Do You Know Your CATHOLIC INSTAGRAM
Family? Game Show
Most youth prefer Instagram over other
CALENDAR Sunday, Sept. 24
social media platforms. Here are my Top
11am—1:30pm
SEPT: 23—11am-1:30pm How well do you know your 10 Catholic Instagram Accounts.
Family Game Show family? How well do you know Check them out!
your parish family? This is an 1. Pope Francis (franciscus) -
29—30 Christ Our opportunity to get to know them Get an up close look at the
Life Conference better! It’s a game show similar to ministry of the Holy Father!
@ Des Moines
________________ The Newlywed Game. Get a group 2. Roman Catholic Teen
together: family, friends, grandpar- (catholic_teen_posts) - Funny
OCT: 21—Youth Night ents, grandkids, young and old. If and thought provoking Catholic
6:30—8:30 pm you have younger children, invite a memes from the web.
grandparent or friend to help them 3. Catholic Problems
27—Holy Fire answer their questions. Our goal is (catholicprblm) - A LOL, slightly
@ Chicago to get to know our parish family a irreverent look of the “problems”
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little better and to have FUN! The Catholics face every day.
NOV: 18—Family Activity HOST with the MOST hats is our 4. Catholic Thinker
11:00am-1:00pm very own Mr. Ken Malloy! (catholicthinker) - Exploring
the intellectual & mystical
We’re providing pizza for lunch so
________________ brilliance of the Catholic faith
sign up in the Gathering Space so
we know how many to plan for. 5. Ali Hoffman
DEC: 16—Youth Night
Childcare will be provided for (theoodlesofnoodles) - She
6:30—8:30 pm
children under 5 years of age. loves Jesus and donuts…and she
does amazing hand lettering.
6. Tommy Tighe
Check us out on CHRIST OUR LIFE (catholichipster) - Makes being
Social Media: CONFERNCE
———— Catholic “hip”.
Website: Sat, Sept. 29—Sun, Sept. 30 7. Fr Chris Ortega (fr_co) -
stmaryyouthff. Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines Coffee. Fitness. Jesus. Mediocrity
weebly.com is not an option. Catholic Priest.
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It’s like NCYC but for the WHOLE
Facebook 8. Cassie Pease
family! This year’s speakers include:
& Pinterest: (cassiepeasedesigns) - Just a
Thomas Cardinal Collins, Bishop girl trying to evangelize the
“St. Mary’s Youth” Robert Barren, Steve Ray, Fr. Leon
———— world...one wallpaper at a time.
Pereira, Rene Bondi, Matt Fradd, 9. Nun and Nunner
Instagram
Twitter Magnus McFarlane Barrow, Jimmy (nunandnunner) - They’re best
stmaryyouthff Belabre and Steve Angrisano. friends who got their hands on a
———— Tickets: couple of habits. So funny that
YouTube Adults—$25 you’ll forget they’re not real nuns.
“St. Mary’s Youth Students—$15 10. Josh Hanson (jflorinh) -
Fairfield” Children 5 years & younger—FREE Catholic Youth Minister. Religious
To purchase a ticket, contact me. Art Freak. Painter.
 Holy Fire
@ Chicago
Oct. 26—27
For 6th—8th grade
We leave Friday evening
and stay at a parish in
Davenport. We’ll return
late Saturday night.

PARISH
PICNIC
Contact Jean Dorothy if
you wish to participate. FUN!
Space is limited!

Mission Statement:
St. Mary’s Youth Ministry
To guide our youth to truly
know Jesus and serve Him
in our parish and the
world.
Diane Tone
Youth Ministry Coordinator
fairfieldstmaryym@diodav.org
Cell: 319-217-0148
ONGOING FUNDRAISER
Pop Can Drive
Bring your empty refundable pop cans Your generosity helps support
or plastic pop bottles to the hallway the programming for
behind the kitchen and put them in the Youth Ministry.
marked containers.
Thank you for your
Last quarter we raised $22.15 continued support!!