A Youth Ministry Co-Ordinator

by
Jeremy Cain
9.00 a.m. Buy ingredients for chocolate brownies.

9.30 a.m. Mass at St. Joseph’s (see Jim afterwards about soup
on Friday).

10.30 a.m. Back in office to plan and email agenda for Youth Ministry
Co-ordination Team meeting & make arrangements for
taking St. Joseph’s Primary School to soup lunch.

11.40 a.m. Off to EMS to meet with the Young Co-operatives &Mr.
Lee about Fairtrade Schools.

12.40 p.m. Quick lunch in canteen. Attempt to cheer a miserable

Megan up.

1.00 p.m. Back at St. Cuthbert’s to make brownies. with some of

Year 6.

3.00 p.m. Pick up Josh and back to EMS. Make arrangements on

phone for PYP on Saturday night. Do bits of paperwork.

5.30 p.m. Home

7.00 p.m. St. Cuthbert’s for YMCT meeting

8.45 p.m. Home again!

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8.15 a.m. Meet Year 6 on steps of St. Cuthbert’s. Attempt to ex-
plain difference between Mass and Eucharistic Service. The
liturgical subtleties seem a bit lost on them.

8.25 a.m. Mass followed by discussion between children and adults

over chocolate brownies and coffee. So why does God let
children die?

9.30 a.m. Meet with Carol and Sheila to plan for Youth Sunday
then in office planning for World Youth Day and visit to
St. Bega’s. Catch up with Matthew then start sorting
‘The Confirmed’ follow-up.

12 p.m. Up to EMS to meet with Young Co-operatives. Lunch

with students in dining hall, print PAC leaflets for Fr.
Adrian, check with AM re. Curry. Talk to students by bike
shed about possible divine apparition.

1.45 p.m. Back in office to sort Youth Sunday, Taize trip, St.
Oswald’s Way, staff meeting and House-Parish links.

3.30 p.m. To EMS for staff meeting, banking YC money on way.

Speak to staff about Fairtrade Schools. Home for 4.15.

7.30 p.m. PAC Spirituality sub-group

9.45 p.m. Home.

9.00 a.m. In office to pray, prepare for Sacred Heart prayer group
and Ethos Committee. Phone people about Bethlehem
meeting.

11.45 a.m. At Sacred Heart with Kath Green for prayer group. Great
response from children.

1.15 p.m. Back in office preparing for Youth Sunday plus ‘The Con-
firmed’ follow-up and St. Oswald’s Way.

2.45 p.m. At St. Teresa’s to promote prayer group to Year 6. De-

cide to pitch it to them straight: ‘it’s not a trip to Alton
Towers’. Not sure how well this goes down. Get account
number for CRB checks for parishioners.

3.15 p.m. At EMS for first time today! Speak to Natalie and the
Tom on phone about Youthi3 involvement in Youth Sun-
day.

4.00 p.m. EMS Governor’s Ethos Committee meeting: report on

progress on House-Parish links.

6.00 p.m. Home.

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8.45 a.m. In office early as Emma took kids to school. Pray then
plan for St. Oswald’s Way plus YAGS prayer and agenda.
Track down missing projector for Chris.

10.15 a.m. At EMS to see Primary Heads about possible trip to

Youth Village.

11.00 a.m. Back in office planning FairTrade assembly at EMS next

week and YAGs prayer. Register for Fairtrade Schools.

11.30 a.m. Leave to meet with Natalie at St. JVs to plan for
Youthi3 involvement in Youth Sunday and Child Protection
Training.

1.30 p.m. At St. Bega’s with Terry preparing for Youth Sunday at
St. Mary’s and encouraging Year 6 to join Youthi3. Swap
ideas with TC about the future of the church.

3.15 p.m. To St. Hilda’s Rectory to drop off entries from Youthi3
for Headland Churches Together Christmas card competi-
tion. Suspect the one with Rudolph on the front will not
win.

5.30 p.m. Leave home for 3 Parishes Youth Action Group meeting.
Goes well. Afterwards catch up with Karen about YAGs
involvement in Youth Sunday and encourage Marie to
speak to Tom about World Youth Day. Home by 8.30
p.m.
9.00 a.m. Pray then emails and paperwork re. NightStop & child
poverty. Do a bit more for FairTrade assembly.

10.15 a.m. Up to EMS– see KR about assembly, TC about Youth

Sunday, BH about House-Parish links. Help with FairTrade
card stall and speak to 6th Form about curry!

11.30 a.m. Get EMS mini-bus and pick up St. Joseph’s Primary
School for parish soup lunch. Speak to Barbara about
children’s stall at Christmas fair, and Miss H. And Fr. C.
about child poverty and visit to church in 2 weeks time.

1.30 p.m. Return bus to EMS and intercept Megan between les-
sons to pass on stuff for Youthi3. Have brief chats
with passing students whilst waiting.

2.15 p.m. Back in office, catching up with Chris, Carol and Fr. Jim on
the way. Do paperwork, pay outstanding Young Co-
operative invoices and ring around re. the curry.

3.45 p.m. Go to dentist.

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7.00 p.m. Go to St. Patrick’s and Teresa’ Young People (PYP to
those who know) with Kev and Jane to sing some praise
songs. Get surprisingly good reception and end up having
some quite serious discussions about the lyrics. Kev
agrees to come back for Youth Sunday.

9.15 p.m. Home.

12.15 p.m. Meet people after Mass at St. Joseph’s to plan for
building Bethlehem.

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The Secret Diary of a Youth Ministry Co-ordintaor Aged 13¾ (almost)
is an unabashed, candles-and-all glimpse into the chaotic life of a
church youth worker. Writing candidly about his own children’s dislike
for Sunday Mass, the bike and his secret love for Glee, would-be
teenager Jeremy Cain’s painfully honest diary makes hilarious and com-
pelling reading. Or something like that.