Why are we gathering as families to discuss the youth?

In October we started talking about how the life of Mother of God community could become more family friendly. Our first meeting included discussion about where we would like our young men and women to be when they become adults after having lived community life. The vision for the youth group at this point is that "these young men & women would grow to have a continually deepening knowledge of the faith that is prevalent throughout their interior life, marked by a fully Trinitarian spirituality, and lived out through the charisms of the Community’s life." We also talked about things like our prayer meetings, the monthly liturgy, youth groups etc. Because we are living community life, we would like to have the input of everyone who has children who are in the community, but also who participate in community life but may not be members. This is important because we are trying to develop a vision and a goal for the many years to come, especially for those youth who are already in grade school. Please take a few minutes to respond to the things that we've posted here on the blog and may post here in the future. Thanks so much, and God bless you and your family!!!!