WelCom February/March 2025
Nick Wilson
Palmerston North Diocese Young Catholics from New Plymouth, Whanganui, Palmerston North and the Hawke’s Bay joined Archdiocesan youth and others from around the country at LifeTeen Summer Camp, at St Paul’s College, Hamilton, 14 to 18 January.
LifeTeen is the biggest Catholic youth event in Aotearoa New Zealand with nearly 400 people attending every year. Prayer, small group works, sessions of sisterhood, brotherhood to apologetics 101, messy games, daily adoration Mass and fun made the week an incredible experience of encounter for young people. Praise and worship rang out across the Camp and we were pleasantly surprised with a visit from Bishop John Adams, who is the Episcopal representative on the NZCBC National Council for Young People.
The LifeTeen kaupapa in our diocese across our five largest parishes has our young Church ministers well conversant in this Ministry to young people. The LifeTeen mantra is ‘leading teens closer to Christ’. Faith came alive for the young people. When we invest in the faith lives of young people, they thrive.
Nick Wilson is Palmerston North Diocese Young Catholics Team Leader and Heamana|Chair, NZCBC Council for Young People.
