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Young Neighbors in Action is an exciting, integrated service-learning experience for parish and school teams of older youth and adults. Young Neighbors is more than a week of service. It is an extended program that provides the experiences, skills and learning needed to make change possible. Young Neighbors features: SERVICE - Each Young Neighbors team focuses on a single, weeklong work project. Some teams are involved heavily in direct service - working with soup kitchens, homeless shelters, recreation programs and abuse centers to help ease people's pressing needs. Others split the day between direct contact with the needy and painting and repair projects with the sponsoring agency. Still others spend their day with more physical projects, working with Habitat for Humanity or similar local groups. LEARNING - Young Neighbors offers a solid, Catholic approach that balances service and education, doing for and learning about. Creative approaches to learning help young people gain insights into the unique treasures of Scripture and Catholic social teaching. Helping people survive their present needs is balanced in Young Neighbors with learning about how to change the things that keep people in need. PRAYER - Opportunities for reflection, prayer and celebration of Eucharist offer participants the chance to put their week's learning into the larger context of how they are called to live as disciples throughout their lives. Prayer strengthens and supports our current involvement and moves us forward in our relationship with Jesus. SOCIAL - Young Neighbors is also lots of fun! It offers the chance to step outside of our normal lives, experience new things, make new friends, and laugh and sing together. The schedule builds in time for community building and community recreation. Being with others who share your values and dreams makes for a great experience of Christian community.
Summer 2007 Holy Angels Program Dates: July 8 – 14, 2007 For more information on Young Neighbors in Action and the 2007 program, go to www.youngneighbors.org, or contact Alice Gentili at amgentili@charter.net.
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