St. Andrew Youth Ministry & Faith Formation

On the EDGE Homework: If you still need to do any homework assignments, you can download them on the Assignments page. Please get these in as soon as possible!

Mission Camp: This summer's Mission Camp will take place on July 18-20. Here's your mission should you choose to accept it. Also, counselor applications are available.

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Credo We are off on May 13th (so you can shower your mothers with much love and attention) and then conclude our year with the Baccalaureate Mass and Dinner on Sunday May 20th.

Senior Sendoff: We've posted the things that this year's seniors challenged you guys to do! Check them out here and then follow through!

Summer Bible Study: Yup, we are planning to continue the tradition of sponsoring a summer Bible Study. We will have information about it very soon. Watch your emails and facebook for more information.

And other summer events are being planned too! It's going to be great!

Confirmation Makeup assignments from April 29 are now posted. This Sunday, May 6, we will be discussing Morality.

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Steubenville Youth Conference Transportation: Transportation to Steubenville and back will be on a chartered bus (sharing the bus with the youth at St. Pius X in Flint). Cost for the bus is approximately $1400.

T-Shirts: In the past we have designed and had shirts printed for our summer trips. We are taking suggestions for those designs now. The T-Shirts design should contain the theme, our parish name, and the date. Winner of the T-Shirt design contest will also get their INITIALS incorporated in the design. Send all designs to Mrs. Carter by May 15.

Pre-Trip Meeting: To finalize all plans, to build some camaraderie and excitement, and to hand out T-Shirts, we will have a joint meeting on Wednesday, June 6th from 7:30-8:30 PM in the Youth Room.

As always, please feel free to contact me with any concerns or questions.

Summer Service Trip Transportation: For the Mission Trip, we will be taking three rental mini vans. Cost for the vans for the week is approximately $250/van for a total of $750 (plus gasoline).

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. For more information about the camp, go to Catholic Heart Work Camps website.

Visit Our Service Page for More Information on these and our Summer Service Trip

Helped Needed - Service Projects! We have a couple of events planned here at St. Andrew that we need some help with. This is a GREAT opportunity for our youth to join in and help the parish community with some of the events OTHER commissions have planned. It is also a great way to get in the service hours needed for confirmation requirements.

The Fiesta Latina Dinner, scheduled for Friday, April 20th is a mexican dinner planned by the Migrant Ministry. They are in need of servers, decorators, dish washers, etc. for the dinner. Please sign up on the sigh-up sheets at Confirmation/EDGE/CREDO this weekend or contact Gladys Saborio at gsaborio@comcast.net

On Sunday, April 22nd, our parish is sponsoring a dinner for the Deacons from the local parishes. They would like some assistance with food preparation and serving. Sign up sheets will be available at EDGE/CREDO/Confirmation this weekend or you can contact Deacon Paul Ellis at paulsellis@frontier.com.

We are in the process of finalizing some of the furniture/fixtures in the youth room and could use some help assembling, moving, sorting....if you are interested and available sometime NEXT week (April 16-20) after school, please contact Mrs. Carter at standrewedge@comcast.net.

We are planning our Senior Baccalaureate Mass and Dinner on Sunday, May 20th and are in need of people to help with the Mass and dinner. Sign-up sheets will be available this Sunday at EDGE/CREDO/Confirmation.

For Parents We are in the process of evaluating our current middle school, high school and confirmation programs. A survey was sent out to all parents of current middle school and high school youth. If you have NOT completed it yet, please do so ASAP! We would like to tally up the responses so we can continue our planning for next years' programs. Should things stay the same, or change??? Your input is valuable to us!

Free Stuff! The theme songs from recent Steubenville Youth Conferences are available for you to download at their website!

Did You Know? The Saline District Library subscribes to Freegal, which enables library card holders to receive 3 free tracks each week! They've got a fantastic selection of Christian music (including Matt Maher!). To get your downloads, go to the SDL homepage, click the Freegal link and enter your library card when prompted.

Recent Site Updates December 26: I've updated the Steubenville Trip page with some more information, plus given the videos page a facelift and added some vids!

December 25: Merry Christmas! We've added some new Christmas resources to the -- you've guessed it -- Christmas resources page!

About Us The EDGE is for students in 7th and 8th grade, and serves as both religious education and fellowship for our middle school students. EDGE follows a two-year curriculum, with one year being focused on Sacred Scripture and the other year focused on Tradition and Belief. EDGE meets on Sunday afternoons from 3:30-5:00.

St. Andrew Credo's goal is for high schoolers to better Know, Serve, Love, and Celebrate our Lord, Jesus Christ. Each month will feature all four of these characteristics of youth faith formation, using the guidelines put out by the USCCB and following the format supplied by Life Teen International. Credo meets on Sunday nights from 6:30-8:45.

The St. Andrew Confirmation Preparation Program begins in the 9th grade and meets every-other-Sunday for about 15 months. Weeks that Confirmation Prep meets, meetings will take place from 6:30-8:45.

In addition to this, we offer regular service opportunities, two high school retreats each year, and more!

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	Bishop Earl Boyea Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Bishop Earl Boyea was the first of ten children. Attended Sacred Heart Seminary, the North American College, and the Gregorian University in Rome. Ordained a priest on May 20, 1978. Appointed fifth bishop of Lansing, Feb. 27, 2008, installed April 29, 2008.
	Father William J. Stevenson Fr. Will was raised in Lansing, Michigan. He holds degrees from Michigan State University, Indiana University, and St. John Provincial Seminary. He was assigned as Pastor of Saint Andrew in Saline in 1997.
	Father David Rosenberg Father David Rosenberg grew up in Galesberg, Illinois. He was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Lansing in June 2011, and began his assignment to St. Andrew's that July.