Welcome Jim Harbour, Youth Apostles Seminarian!

Please join us in extending a big welcome to Jim Harbour, a Youth Apostles Seminarian that has been assigned to Holy Trinity Youth Ministries for his eight week summer assignment this May, June, and July! Jim is a Lifetime Consecrated member of the Youth Apostles community and a seminarian for the Diocese of Arlington, attending Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. Before seminary, Jim served as a Youth Missionary in the youth ministries at St. Bernadette in Springfield and at the campus ministries at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

Jim has a huge heart for youth ministry, and will be a great gift to our middle schoolers and high schoolers this summer. He will be involved in all regular youth ministries, particularly in helping to lead our special middle school July-Wednesday ministries, “Thunder” and “Salt & Light”. He will also be joining us for WorkCamp, the Steubenville Conferences, Kings Dominion Day, and more!

Jim can be reached at: youthseminarian@holytrinityparish.net

Jim will begin his summer seminarian assignment this coming Monday, May 23rd! Please say hello to him when you see him. But more so, please keep him in your prayers, as well as all of the middle schoolers and high schoolers of our parish!


For all regular youth ministry options, as well as youth ministry’s big events, please visit:
https://holytrinityupdates.com/formation/htym/
https://holytrinityupdates.com/events/


Middle school ministries!

We wanted to call your attention to several middle school ministries that are on the near horizon! These are all open to all in grades 6, 7, and 8:

  • End-of-Summer Party: Friday, September 17: 4:30-6:30 pm.
  • Spark, first and third Fridays, October 1 (and following): 4:30-6:00 pm.
  • Jr. Legion of Mary, Thursdays, two options (see below).
  • Amplified, many third Wednesdays, October 13 (and following), two options: 5:00 and 7:00 pm start.
  • Spark After Dark, many third Fridays, October 15 (and following): 6:30-8:00 pm.
  • American Heritage Girls, second & fourth Fridays, afternoons.

For more: https://holytrinityupdates.com/formation/htym/

Email Paul if you have any questions, or would like to join the every-other-week email distribution: youthministry@holytrinityparish.net

Bash: Family Style!

Calling all middle school families: BASH “family style” is coming up soon, an event with very similar, awesome, quality speakers, dinner, inflatables, scavenger hunt to the annual BASH…including Mass with Bishop Burbidge! AND you can bring your whole family, even the non-middle schoolers, on Saturday, April 24!

Please click here to register your family!

(If you have registered for diocesan events before, you may have an account already. Otherwise you will need to create one.)

Continue reading “Bash: Family Style!”

Upcoming HTYM events & meetings!

We just wanted to quickly get the word out a bit wider about a couple of big upcoming events.

Also, Mondays have three monthly ministries for high schoolers, each meet once a month. This week is St. Gianna’s Life Defenders’ monthly meeting (they meet 2nd Mondays); this is our parish’s pro-life high school ministry. Also, St. Thomas’s Youth Apologists apologetics ministry meets on 4th Mondays (next on November 23), and Gamemasters board-gaming ministry meets on 1st Mondays (next on December 7). Currently, all of our meetings are being held on the pond side of the building, near the basement doors.

— Turkey Cup sign-up! https://forms.gle/R2HTa1fGEvaee72XA

All high schoolers are welcomed to come by and join us at any of these meetings, any month. We hope that you’ll consider coming by!

We are in need of great adult volunteers for these (and other) ministries, too, so please contact Paul if you’d like to learn more.

To hear more about these or any of the other Holy Trinity Youth Ministries (HTYM), please email Paul: youthministry@holytrinityparish.net.

Middle school hike!

“Contemplating the beauty of creation inspires us to recognize the love of the Creator, that Love which ‘moves the sun and the other stars’.” ~ Pope Benedict XVI

If you are in grades 6, 7, or 8 … or you know someone that is, please consider joining us on October 24 at Prince William Forest Park for a middle school hike! You’ll need to sign-up to save a spot, and all of the event details (packing list, times, etc.) can be found on the sign-up, here:

https://forms.gle/4egro1HpxsAfM3CZ6

Friends are welcomed, but we need to be sure we have enough adults to take everyone…compliant parents and volunteers, please consider joining us! The sign-up link above has more details on this, too. And please email Paul with any questions: youthministry@holytrinityparish.net.

We hope to see you there!