15 Oct 2016
In 2016, five young adults came from Canada, Dublin and even Galway as part of a National Evangelisation Team ( NET ) to share the Good News and celebrate their faith with the people of Cork. This is their story …
“Hello, we are the Cork City NET team. We are really excited to be working with the Dominicans and Missionaries of the Sacred Heart this year. There are 5 members on our team; two from Ireland and three from Canada. We range from the ages of 18-23. All of us have had a personal encounter with Jesus, and want to share that encounter and the love of Christ with those around us.
A random fact about our team is that we love Disney movies: we have been known to sing Disney musical songs while doing chores such as dishes and cleaning.
The sixth member of the team, King Philip, helps Travis and Luke with the Children’s Liturgy planning
We just arrived in Cork city this week after six weeks of NET training in Esker and Rossnowlaugh. Cork is a beautiful city filled with history and wonders which were created by God, we look forward to experiencing and learning from our time here.
We are really enjoying the spectacular view of the city we get to adopt as our home for the year. We have high hopes for this year; we want to see young people impacted and transformed by the love of Jesus. We are excited to get to know and reach out to young adults, children and secondary school students.
As a NET team we will be involved in a variety of ministry work throughout the year. The aim of our work is to help people encounter Jesus in a personal way. A big aspect of our ministry is forming relationships with the youth; we believe that these relationships will demonstrate the power and joy that comes from a personal relationship with Jesus.
There will be plenty of time to catch up over the odd latte
Our tasks include children’s liturgy, running a parent and toddlers group, visiting local schools, day retreats, Access youth club, youth 2000 meetings, running religion classes and young adult ministry. Day retreat’s or encounter days will be a big part of our ministry. At these retreats students will be taught the Good News through games, activities, sketches, dramas and talks. We hope that through these retreats, students will become more involved in church ministries. One of our main goals this year is to create a sustainable youth ministry program in Cork City; we want to train young adults to continue the mission when we depart.
We are looking forward to getting to know everyone and growing more in our relationship with Jesus alongside the community of Cork.”