DSJOYYAM Update
June 16, 2006
Click here for the vision and work that are priorities of the DSJOYYAM and in concert with the Pastoral Plan:

Click here for names of the Bishop Youth Council Deanery and High School Reps:

The New Diocesan Director’s Institute was very helpful to the 23 of us from around the country who attended in Wash D.C. June 1-4:
Some thoughts:
The importance of parents in ministry to young people-click here for some resources involving parents in ministry;
Maps are BIG-without them we lose our way and the vision become muddled;
Also--Your Professional Youth Ministry Directors hired to coordinate and direct sustainable ministry to the Young Church should have or be on their way to having these Five Core Competency Standards. Working in ministry and young people requires, competency, professionalism, maturity.
1. Core Certification Standard 1- Personal and Spiritual Maturity: A lay ecclesial minister demonstrates personal and spiritual maturity with the people of God.
2. Core Certification Standard 2- Lay Ecclesial Ministry identity: A lay ecclesial minister identifies the call to formal and public ministry as a vocation rooted in baptism.
3. Core Certification Standard 3- Roman Catholic Theology: A lay ecclesial minister integrates knowledge of the Roman Catholic faith within ministry
4. Core Certification Standard 4- Pastoral Praxis: A lay ecclesial minister engages in pastoral activity that promotes evangelization, faith formation, community, and pastoral care with sensitivity to diverse situations.
5. Core Certification Standard 5- Professional Practice: A lay ecclesial minister provides effective leadership, administration, and service, in the spirit of collaboration and ( a word I like these days) partnerships

If you do not have a youth minister coordinator and can’t afford to hire one, call me and I can work with you and your staff. In other words-there are no excuses for not providing ministry to young people because “the Young Church deserves the very best we have to offer.”

A word about the Tahoe retreat:

The cost of the retreat fee is $290 per person. This price goes toward lodging, meals, coordinator fee, supplies, materials, transportation, speaker fee, t-shirts and much more. The transportation expenses jumped from $6500 in 2005 to $9500 in 2006. In addition, we have had to hire a coordinator to handle all the tasks of the job.
We cannot continue to raise the price of this retreat, without compromising the priority of this office which is grounded in justice and opportunity for every young person in this diocese. We are already at a point where we are pricing out many young people who would like to come but who cannot afford it.
This coming year we will be working on ways to continue the experience through the vehicle of the pastoral plan, and that might mean change: of location, of the retreat’s length, of its size; of the times it can be offered, and of its purpose. Indeed there has never been a vision of the retreat from its inception, and that is crucial to its longevity. It may be that we need a year off to plan for the future especially if we change its location. Your feedback is crucial to us as we begin the evaluation process.
Keep us in your prayers as we return this year, the 25th jubilee year to the 11th Tahoe. We leave Monday June 19 and return June 23.


Sandy
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Sandy Velasco Scott
Associate for Youth & Young Adult Ministries
Diocese of San Jose
408-983-0135
Read: The Young Church

Save the Date!
Faith Formation Conference:
Empowering Those in Ministry
"Rooted in Faith, Embracing our Future"
"Arraigados en la Fe, Abrazando Nuestro Futuro"
November 10-11, 2006
Santa Clara Convention Center