Don’t miss Fresh Faith Spring 2004!

By CHRISTINA M. CONAWAY
The CS&T Youth Coordinator

The Spring 2004 edition of “Fresh Faith” youth magazine is on the horizon. Next week, The Catholic Standard & Times will issue its fourth edition of “Fresh Faith” youth magazine. Each edition features a specific theme. Past themes have included chastity, sports and the arts. “Fresh Faith” Spring 2004 has a special focus on Catholic social justice.
Here is a preview of what’s inside:
• COVER STORY: Learn how a 12-year-old boy, horrified by the plight of enslaved and exploited children, started “Free the Children,” an organization that promotes child labor laws and now has more than 100 rehabilitation centers throughout the world.
• Discover why a senior at Villanova University has put his career on hold after a service trip to Guatemala. He plans to spend a year as an Augustinian volunteer raising funds for a water purifying system for the people of that country.
• Find out how the two Divine Word priests, the first black twins to be ordained in the United States, are promoting strong Catholic values within young black communities.
• Share in the vision of a black seminarian some are calling a Catholic Martin Luther King.
• Take a virtual bike ride with a young adult who took a 3,800 mile ride through 12 states and 34 dioceses to break the cycle of poverty.
• Hear from 20-year-old Bodo Schwarz of Bonn, Germany who chose to spend a year working with the poor and abandoned at Sarnelli house (a Redemptorist volunteer ministry) to help him see life from a different perspective.
• Learn how students meet Christ on a daily basis, especially on service trips to Tijuana, Mexico and an Appalachian experience in Cumberland, Md., and how students from local archdiocesan high schools are bringing the message of Catholic social justice to their schools.
This is not all that will be in this edition of “Fresh Faith” youth magazine. Be inspired by teen profiles, be challenged to grow in the area of Catholic social justice and learn how you can make a difference in your own backyard.
Go to www.cst-phl.com and order extra copies for your friends and family today.

Contact Christina M. Conaway at (215) 587-3668 or cconaway@adphila.org