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Spirit Mover Requirements:
- A student in grades 10-12 for the upcoming school year.
- An active member in your parish youth group
- Must be willing to share your talents and time.
- You are expected to attend the Spirit Mover formation RETREAT.
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History of Spirit Movers
Formed to respond to a need to have more young people involved in Youth Conference planning and empower young people to be leaders in their own parishes. Additionally, service activities occur throughout the year up to and including putting on a series of middle school retreats completely led by the Spirit Movers. Adult volunteers form pillars of the group each taking on a task to help guide the young people to their own strengths or personal challenge opportunity for themselves. Started in 2008, this idea was brought to the attention of the youth office by a group of six sophomores and juniors to broaden and involve more young people in our planning of events.
Leadership training on how to effectively communicate, lead small groups, and be better Christians were the ideas posed by the young people. The group meets once a month with more frequent meetings occurring as we get closer to youth celebration to effectively practice skits, build decorations, and put together materials as needed. The size of Spirit Movers has varied over the years from as few at 8 starting out to as many as 50 in previous years. The roster is flexible to the number of adult volunteers we have to support them.
The risk of Spirit Movers is that young people may think they can use Spirit Movers as their parish youth group. Our goal at the diocese level is to empower these young adults to be better leaders in their own parishes. We constantly push them to be more a part of their parish community. Being a part of Spirit Movers does not replace the need for them to be active in their own youth group/parish. Maintaining open dialog with the parishes lets us better engage the needs of the young people in the parish. The parish communicates to us if a young person has stopped attending youth group/CCD/Life teen and we can engage that conversation.
Check out SPIRIT MOVERS Rules of Life