Applications Deadline: February 28, 2010

Your Mission:

Answer the call of Christ to serve senior high and junior high teenagers and leading them closer to Christ. Through this mission you will receive over 400 hours of practical youth ministry training and experience in the following areas:

• Spiritual formation and accountability
• Liturgy planning and preparation
• Relational youth ministry training and experience
• Deepen your understanding of the Catholic faith
• Youth protection training
• Creation / completion of games and teachings
• Practice in public speaking
• Small group training and implementation
• Learn coordination of multiple projects
• Build skills in time management
• Collaborative team-building
• Coordination of outreach and service
• Experience structured and sacramental prayer life
• Minister along side 20 other young adults with the same goals and mission and build friendships that will last a lifetime

Your Reward:

An experience that will change the way that you live your life and open you up to the reality that Jesus Christ is calling you and using you RIGHT NOW to build up His kingdom on earth.

Missionary Sponsor Program:

We understand that as a college student you need to provide for yourself during the summertime, so we are prepared to help you be successful. Since this is truly a mission experience, you need to fully treat it as one. Part of your mission will be finding prayer partners who will support you spiritually with prayers and financially with donations. In any mission, you need to find people who will commit to offer prayers for you everyday through daily Mass, a rosary, a chaplet, a holy hour or whatever source they can offer. In return you will bring them and their families with you in prayer.

Once you find those committed to prayer then you will find those that will support you financially. You will find financial supporters who will tithe small and large amounts so you can reach your goal of $700 raised. The majority of your fundraising goal must be outside of your immediate family. Life Teen will help you by providing letter templates and donation cards that you can send your extended family, friends, parishes, etc. in order to invite others into your mission and the mission of Life Teen. Life Teen will also match the amount that you raise from your supporters up to $700. Whatever you raise in addition to the matching funds from Life Teen will be given to you at the end of your mission. For example, if you raise $700, Life Teen will match that $700 and give you a check for $1400 at the end of your mission. We know that this is not as much as you might make, but the experience and training of the mission will provide a great avenue for the Lord to continue to work for the rest of your life.

Life Teen Summer Staff 4-Step Application Process:

1. Download and complete Application and Background Check.
2. Direct, produce, and record a video (DVD only) that shows what you are all about. Show your school, your friends, your ministry, your life, your family, your faith…EVERYTHING. Your autobiography needs to be 3-5 minutes, no longer. Label the outside of your video with your full name and make 2 copies.
3. Download and request 3 individual letters of recommendation. These need to come from someone outside your immediate family. (i.e. Youth minister, priest, deacon, teacher, employer, etc.)
4. Mail the application, background check, 2 copies of your video, and the three letters of recommendation to: