By J.C. Montenegro
\nDelegate for Mission Animation<\/p>\n
Last week I had the blessing to participate in the Catholic Volunteer Network Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. In this article, I\u2019m not writing about the conference in general, but rather about what had the greatest impact on me while I was attending the conference. I\u2019m not judging the good work done in so many ways in our Salesian works, but rather trying to encourage future movement and apostolic efficacy.<\/p>\n
These questions have challenged me a lot lately because I\u2019ve been so worried about administration that I\u2019ve forgotten to be with the young people. I asked myself as a volunteer coordinator, how do I move volunteers if I don\u2019t take the time to promote and talk to them about my missionary passion? It\u2019s time to be more intentional on my part and spend quality time with the young people whom God has entrusted to me.<\/p>\n
Many times I find myself complaining about what\u2019s happening in our province. We need more vocations, we need more volunteers, better leadership, and so on– more complaints that may not be appropriate to list here.<\/p>\n
But the question remains: what is the narrative that I want to share with the young people with whom I interact? I want my narrative to be \u201cyoung people are the present and the future of a better world, and I want to be here to support them in whatever way they need to accomplish this goal.\u201d I have found myself many times complaining instead of being part of the solution. I need to move away from this posture.<\/p>\n
What are we doing to keep the young engaged? In the Los Angeles region, where I am, we\u2019re blessed to be in a highly populated Latino area where we still have young people around. Moreover, are we intentional in our narrative? Do we know what our province or parish or school narrative is? Is our narrative one which is updated and in tune with\u00a0our young people?<\/p>\n
We must do things differently, trying\u00a0new\u00a0approaches. If we fail, we fail, but at least we\u2019ll have tried. Let\u2019s allow the Holy Spirit to work in us. Let\u2019s not allow our fears and past failures\u00a0make us complacent with what we have and with whom we have become.<\/p>\n
These are the three main points that I\u00a0took from this conference. I hope this \u201carticle\u201d helps us to shake up a little\u00a0our ideas and to decide to do something for our young people and the future of our Salesian works. I believe great things are yet to happen.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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