N.E.T. Ministries travel to Winsted

Holy Trinity School serves as host site for student retreat

 

Recently, the Church of the Holy Trinity in Winsted, MN hosted a N.E.T. (National Evangelization Team) retreat for all Holy Trinity High School students in grades 9-12 as well as all confirmation students. 

 

The N.E.T. team is comprised of young adults who give a year of their life to travel around the country offering retreats to over 70,000 youth in the United States, Canada and Australia. This mission is the work of NET Ministries based in West Saint Paul, MN. Since 1981, the nonprofit organization has sent over 13,000 young adults around the country and abroad to lead retreats for Catholic teens.

 

Through these retreats they challenge teens to examine their faith, to grow in their relationship with Christ and to embrace the life of the church. These N.E.T. retreats are high-energy experiences that use large group presentations, small group discussions, music, drama, personal faith sharing and one-on-one prayer to convey their messages to the teens.  The N.E.T. team had been in the Green Bay diocese prior to coming to Holy Trinity and was headed to South Dakota following their stay in Winsted.

 

The retreat theme for the day was "Why Faith?"  The retreat addressed four common reasons that many young people don't seem interested in their Catholic faith. The N.E.T. team members shared stories of their own faith journeys and ways of how to make faith interesting, even for teenagers.  HT students were challenged to look at their lives and their faith in a different way and were encouraged to begin living their Catholic faith to the fullest.

The retreat was very interactive and included outdoor activities, skits by the N.E.T. team, music, quiet prayer time and small group sharing.  The day ended with Mass.  A special thank you to the families who hosted the N.E.T. members while they were in Winsted:  Ken & Kathy Schoenfelder, Don & Helen Guggemos, Tony & Lavon Kielkucki, Jim & Char Laxen and Frank & Terry Roufs.