St. Nicholas Youth & Family Ministry

If you haven't already heard, I will be leaving the youth ministry position at St. Nicholas Parish come September 2019 as I have been accepted into the After-Degree program in Secondary Education at the U of A. As a result we are looking for applicants to this position! The job description is as below: Requirements: - Experience working with youth and or young families - Active member of a Ukrainian Catholic parish faith community - Knowledgeable about the Ukrainian Catholic

Christ is Born! Glorify Him! Христос Раждається! Славімо Його! Happy New Year! I can't believe it's already 2018; honestly December just flew by and here we are. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and brought in the New Year with style. Most of you who are in school still have a week off (so lucky, I've got to add), but I wanted to come here to give you all a reminder on the programs that are continuing this year, as well as a heads up on the great new stuff being planned

It has come to my attention that I haven't written a blog post in a while (aka one of my youth accosted me after our "God's Word & Me" session saying in a very disapproving voice, "Um, you haven't written anything in months." So, here I am, trying to figure out what I should write about as I wait for the bank to take my call (I've been on hold for 21 minutes... and counting). So, now that it's November and we've been 100% thrust into winter, I've got to say that Christmas is

Okay, so I'm almost two weeks late, but better later than never – I mean, well-wishing never expires, does it? All that to say, Happy New Liturgical Year! That's right, as of September 1st we are in the new year, according to church tradition. What does that mean for our St. Nicholas Youth? It means the start of Fall programming! Yay! So, what have we got starting up? First of all, we've got the ever-classic Sunday School program for the little ones, Bozhi Dity or "God's Chil

With June comes the end of the school year and with it the last youth events of the season. Wanting to keep things simple and fun for the Junior Youth's year end event, I tossed out a couple options to the youth to vote on. The verdict? A classic: bowling. The decision made, I went about organizing the event and finally last Saturday the day arrived! It was a small group of junior youth members that met at Bonnie Doon Bowling, but during the two games we had a great time chee