Friday, 20 April 2012 at 17:30 until Sunday, 22 April 2012 at 13:30

Where: Youth Village, Pemberton Road, Allensford, Consett, Co. Durham DH8 9BA

A weekend of prayer, praise, worship, multimedia, speakers, music, and celebration. Open to all young people in Year 9 and above and can come as part of school or parish group.

Each group of young people will need a named adult who will take parental consent and be responsible for supervision. We suggest that each group has a ratio of 10 young people per adult.

Download The Source Weekend Booking Form and The Source Weekend Leaflets here (PDF).

The Youth Ministry Team (YMT) is in St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon from the 24th November – 2nd December 2011. The theme of our mission is Step up to life!

Please post your comments and messages regarding the mission here. This is your page. Keep it alive. Students, Staff, Parents and Parishioners are all welcomed to post messages.

You can also post your messages on the YMT Facebook Wall.

On 8th October 2011 more than 160 young people and adults from all over the diocese gathered at Cardinal Hume Catholic School in Gateshead for a day called ‘Resourcing Youth Ministry’.

The day was a fruit of the meeting of YMT Key Co-workers, on Pentecost Day, when they requested YMT to organise a day for workshops on resources on youth ministry. This gave YMT and opportunity to launch our theme for National Youth Sunday ‘GO with JOY in your HEART and MAKE DISCIPLES of the whole world’. A theme which YMT will carry through in the next 2 years in the lead up to WYD 2013 in Rio de Janiero.

The day was divided in 2 parts. In morning Fr. Dermott, Director for youth services in the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle, introduced 4 young people who gave their testimonies and reflections on the words ‘go’, ‘joy’, ‘heart’, and ‘make disciples’. In the afternoon 10 workshops were made available for everyone where they had an opportunity to ‘re-source’ themselves in dance, film. music, prayer, scriptures and more.

At the end of the day more than 160 young people and adults committed themselves to ‘making disciples of the whole world’… with ‘joy in their hearts’.

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The Youth Ministry Team (YMT) is in Cardinal Hume Catholic School, Gateshead from the 6th – 14th October 2011. The theme of our mission is Step up to life!

Please post your comments and messages regarding the mission here. This is your page. Keep it alive. Students, Staff, Parents and Parishioners are all welcomed to post messages.

Hundreds of messages posted on the YMT Facebook wall.

Like the official Facebook Page of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Youth Ministry Team (YMT) and all will be revealed.

Are you a pilgrim in the recently concluded WYD 2011 in Madrid, Spain? We’d like to hear from you. Please post your stories and experiences as messages below. Tell us the stories behind the photographs in the Gallery (name the photo number). Will you go Rio de Janeiro in 2013? Fill this space with your stories and what you got out of it. We’d like to read them all.. the rest of the world is waiting.

Please don’t forget to leave your name.

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Have you been at the Festival? Did you enjoy it? Have you got any messages to Barry, Margaret, George, Steve, Catherine, YMT, St Michael Security, Shotley Security, to your staff and everyone at the festival? Post your messages here. You don’t have to leave your name but please don’t forget to write you school.

Lost and Found: We’ve got loads! Ask a member of your staff to ring YMT Office immediately.

On 29th June – 1st July, more than 600 young people and staff from schools across the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle gathered at the Youth Village in County Durham for the Summer Festival. Massive marquees have been pitched on the fields of the Youth Village which will be hosting the annual festival for the first time in the Festival’s ten-year history.

The Festival, which is organised by the Youth Ministry Team (YMT), was headlined by Barry and Margaret Mizen, parents of Jimmy Mizzen. In 2008 Jimmy was stabbed to death near his home the day after his 16th birthday. Since that day, Margaret and Barry Mizen have spoken openly about their faith, the need for forgiveness and the importance of family and the Church. As well as a number of TV appearances, they also spoke at the Papal Vigil in Hyde Park and their story was broadcast across the world. Catherine McKinnell, MP for Newcastle Upon Tyne North and a former member of the Diocesan Youth Council, also spoke of how she is living her faith in today’s society.

Amidst all the celebration of the festival is a poignant moment for the Youth Ministry Team as we dedicate this year’s Festival to its founder Bishop Ambrose Grffiths OSB who died a couple of weeks ago. Bishop Ambrose guided the development of YMT with an unfailing commitment and, just before he retired as Bishop, he took the imaginative step of founding the Youth Village. We remember how proud and excited he was at the opening last July and humbled at having one of the suites named after him.

During the festival YMT showed a video of his life and works with young people. A portrait of Bishop Ambrose signed by YMT and the young people and school staff was presented to Bishop Seamus Cunningham who visited the Festival yesterday Thursday morning. On Friday at 11am the Festival came to a close with a Mass a celebrated by Fr Dermott Donnelly, Director of the Youth Ministry Team. The Closing Mass was coincidentally at the same time as the Funeral Mass of Bishop Ambrose at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Newcastle. This was missed by everyone in YMT but to commemorate this day special prayers will be said during the Festival Mass for Bishop Ambrose.

The young people gave their final ‘salute’ to Bishop Ambrose by releasing thousands of heart and butterfly shaped confetti to symbolise his heart for youth ministry and the new life it brings.

Note: The Photo of Bishop Ambrose which we signed was placed on a pillar near the altar of St Mary’s Cathedral. Check out the photo and listen to Bishop Seamus’ Homily here and Canon Barrass’ Homily here. YMT, young people and the Summer Festival were acknowledged many times during the services.

A special thanks to Apex Radio for sponsoring the radios used during the Festival and Phil Boyd, The Wedding Snapper for taking the photos during the Closing Mass and Confetti Release.

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Do you still remember the Event of one year ago? It’s been a year now since we formally opened the Youth Village. Many things had happened since then, including the first Summer Festival at the Youth Village, and many more great things to come. So keep on watching this space!

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Happy Anniversary everyone!

Bishop Ambrose Griffiths OSB, Emeritus of Hexham & Newcastle and former Abbot of Ampleforth has died peacefully on Tuesday 14th June at the age of 82.

Photo shows Bishop Ambrose reading the Gospel (John 10:10) during the opening of the Youth Village last year where one of the suites was named after him. In 1995, Bishop Ambrose founded the Youth Ministry Team (YMT).

Bishop Ambrose and the Youth Ministry Team Photo Gallery

Youth Village Annual Charity Golf Day Photo Gallery

On 13^th May, a host of TV and sporting celebrities gathered for an amazing day at Slaley Hall, Northumberland to raise funds for the Youth Village at an event organised annually by the Youth Ministry Team.

The Youth Village Annual Charity Golf Day supported by Cherish Baby was attended by stars of television including Ant & Dec, Tim Healy (Auf Wiedersehen Pet), Matt Baker (Blue Peter), James and Ola Jordan (Strictly Come Dancing) and Poppy Jhakra (Waterloo Road) who also helped out in giving away the raffle prizes in the evening. Sporting legend Alan Shearer also attended the Golf Day in support of the Youth Village and Andrew Robson, son of the late Sir Bobby Robson.

In the evening, a Gala dinner was attended by over 240 guests who came to support the Youth Village. Amazing auction items and raffle prizes were taken away which included tickets for Britain’s Got Talent, a tour of the Coronation Street Set, a week stay at Eleuthera Villas, Bahamas and a kid’s pony party. Headline entertainers were Cole Page, Kim Inglis, Alfie Joey (BBC Newcastle) and the International Party Doctors, who were joined by the celebrities in an impromptu performance.

Watch this space for next year’s event.

Video shown during Gala Night attended by celebrities and guests