NET Retreat is a middle school retreat that will happen on
Sunday, November 6th at St. Augustine, Rensselaer.
The retreat will be from 9 CT/10 ET – 4 CT/5 ET and include Sunday Mass before it’s over.
Families are welcome to attend Mass at 4:00pm ET/ 3:00pm CT
Youth will be served lunch and a snack.
Please register by October 26th
along with a $20 registration fee per child.
If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Hall (219) 866-5351.
NET stands for National Evangelization Team.
The NET team will travel to our pastorate to conduct the retreat.
The mission of the traveling NET teams is to provide momentum for events in the existing youth programs present in the parishes and Catholic schools hosting the team.
NET retreats are designed to present youth with the truth of who they are as God’s children and how true joy and meaning in life are found by accepting Christ’s gift of salvation and living as His disciple.
Every NET retreat includes an extended time for the youth to pray and be prayed with to make a personal response to God’s invitation.
NET retreats include:
NET was started in 1981 in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, by its founder and president, Mark Berchem. Mark pioneered a team of 12 young adults to travel in a van around southern Minnesota, conducting high school retreats. Moving from town to town, parish to parish, this experimental team conducted 18 retreats in a three-week period during January 1980. The response was extremely positive. Additional requests came from Fargo, North Dakota, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The following January, three teams were sent to serve in Winona MN, Fargo ND, and Sioux Falls, SD. In September 1981, the first year-long team was sent out, adding Wisconsin, Louisiana, and several other dioceses in Minnesota to the itinerary.
In 1982, the name “NET,” or National Evangelization Teams, was officially adopted. It was inspired by the scriptures: “Come after me, I will make you fishers of men,” Mark 1:17, and “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch,” Luke 5:4.
Since then, NET Ministries has expanded how it carries out its mission from just Retreat Teams to adding Discipleship Teams and acquiring YDisciple.
NET Ministries has been replicated in Canada, Australia, Scotland, Uganda, and Ireland.
Learn more: netusa.org/mission/