All youth of our parish are considered part of Youth Ministry from their Confirmation Day. Youth Ministry gives teens an opportunity to experience together their growing and changing faith in a safe place. Each month different events are offered that will be either social, service or spiritual. It is a place for teens to question their faith and a place to listen and to watch the journey of their peers.

• Monthly – SWYM teens lead two events held on campus called Teen Nite and Coffee House
• Once a year – teen leaders host an overnight Discovery retreat on campus
• Service opportunities are offered throughout the year - some locally, some in the Chicagoland area as well as week long mission trips to either Nazareth Farm or Catholic Heart Work Camp
• Youth conferences that we consider: Youth Leadership Conference, Steubenville Teen Conference, Notre Dame Vision and every other year National Catholic Youth Conference
• Teens train to facilitate small groups and prepare skits for our three Confirmation Retreats

SWYM teens witness their faith at many of these events by sharing God’s activity in their life, in their family and in each other. SWYM is a way and a place for teens to see how to live their life the way that Jesus modeled for us all.