Put Out Into The Deep

On Friday 16th of October we set off from School for a weekend at the Youth Village looking at how we can carry forward the good work done by the Mission earlier this year. The two days were brilliant with lots of fun being had by all alongside all of the hard work we did on looking towards new events that we can do over the next year.

The Youth Villiage was a lovely place too with nice food and accommodation as well as a Karaoke machine in the boys challet while the girls were just too busy on Facebook chat using the plasma screen in their challet for anything like that! We've got loads of pictures that will be put up soon so keep checking back to see them!

The highlight though had to be Anne-Marie and her one night only never to be seen again performance of Baywatch while dressed as Susan Boyle.... yes we do have a video too!

Feel free to add your comments to this anyone who was there or who would have liked to have been there and let's look forward to putting our plans into action.

Youth Village Retreat

This weekend a group of young people and adults from Hartlepool will be visiting the Youth Village as part of Put Out Into The Deep. The group will have just one aim... to look at how we can carry on all of the good work that was done by the YMT Mission in February.

We are really excited about this mini retreat and hopefully will be able to bring you some news soon of more exciting events to look forward to across the parishes!

Rounders, Parties & Going Home

The third day at Ampleforth and just a general round up of all that we enjoyed during our retreat. Was there a better way to spend the Saturday afternoon than our 20 vs 20 rounders game even with those terrible shouts of 'Foul Ball' every few minutes! Then who could forget our party on the Saturday night with the music quiz and stackers game. These last few days have given us so much fun but also so many memories so hopefully this little video will let you share in those too:

Reflection, Drama & Stations

Here are the highlights from our second day at Ampleforth and just a small sample of what was a jam packed day! Starting with a reflection as a whole group then moving into our smaller groups to put together a drama. One of the highlights of our day though was the stations of the cross where each group took their turn at presenting one of the stations and of course the wonderful 'Team Rock' who carried the rocks for the last stretch of our walk. Take a look here to see the main highlights of the day:

Arrival and Night Prayer

The highlights of our first day at Ampleforth and our shortest one too! We left straight after school on Friday and enjoyed a very hot journey on the coach before sorting out our rooms. After that we were working in groups for a little while and then took part in a beautiful night prayer. Here are just a few of the highlights from our first day:

Ampleforth Retreat

Tomorrow sees Mission Control and loads more young people from the parishes going to Ampleforth on retreat. We've also invited a few adults from the parishes too to take part in what is the first big event since the Mission and we hope to come up with lots of other ideas on how we can work together.

Keep on checking the blog for updates and hopefully we'll have a few videos to bring you too!