CYO is an opportunity to bond with other teens who share our common faith and compassion to serve others. It is also a great social outlet with lots of social events: our Girls and Guys’ Nights, Bowling and Miniature Golf, our annual barbecue, Senior Supper with Monsignor Sean, plus our Thanksgiving and Christmas parties! We have Game Board Night, Leadership Night, Comedy Night, and very special guest speakers. If you wish to develop your leadership skills, there are plenty of opportunities for you to lead a meeting or discussion group or design and implement a new CYO activity and then get it organized and completed. Our current and former CYO members have written and directed movies as well as implemented Operation Christmas Child, Operation Cookies for U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan, and a charity bike-a-thon into our program. Our annual Christmas wreath sale enables us to donate thousands of dollars to many worthy charities such as Madonna House, St. Denis Doves, and the Mission of Mercy– Uganda missions.
Our primary goal in CYO is to make all our teens feel welcome in our church and to help them realize their special role in knowing, loving, and serving God and others through our faith community. CYO members make lifelong friends in our program.
