CYO - Catholic Youth Organization
JCYO
The Junior High Catholic Youth of IHM Organization is for youth in grades 6-8.
CYO
The Catholic Youth Organization is for youth in grades 9-12. All youth are welcome, and we always need adult volunteers!
Youth Formation and Sacrament Preparation
Our Parish School of Religion secure in the love of the Father, and guided by the Holy Spirit, strives to reach out with today's living Gospel message to all parish families.
Our mission is to provide Catholic religious education for children in Grades K-12, in the hope that these children and their families, always looking to Jesus as their role model and to the Holy Spirit for guidance, grow in religious knowledge, becoming active in faith and service.
Our Faith Formation program provides formal Catholic religious education for students who attend area public schools and non-Catholic private schools. Our program continues and supplements the religious formation from parents, who are the first teachers of their children in the ways of the faith. We assist families in the areas of knowledge of the faith, beliefs and Christian life skills and religious practices, and strengthening the growing relationship with Jesus and his Church. Children in Grade 2 are prepared to receive First Reconciliation and First Communion, and youth in Grade 10 begin a two-year preparation to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Stewardship of Time and Talent is actively encouraged in our Parish School of Religion. Parents and parishioners alike are involved in the program in various ways. Over fifty adults serve regularly as catechists, co-catechists, classroom aides in the 11 classroom groups. Others provide help as substitute catechists and aides.