Youth Ministry
-
-
6th-12th Grade
Faith FormationRegistration is always open for EDGE and Life Teen! We invite you to join us as we grow one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church!
-
-
EDGE Junior High Youth Ministry (6th-8th)
-
EDGE for Junior High
Our Lady of Grace EDGE is a junior high youth ministry program for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.Led by a Core Team of Parents, Adults, Young Adults, and High School Upperclassmen, EDGE students form their faith in the parish community. Using traditional prayer, fun games, creative activities, witness talks, small group discussions, media, and relational ministry, students are challenged to engage each other in the joy of their Catholic faith. Our weekly nights can range from current events, catechetical teachings, or merely social gatherings. Regardless of topic, each week, students are promised to encounter God, Fun, & Food!
EDGE en españolJoin us on Wednesdays from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm in the Donovan Center!
Contact us at [email protected] for more information.
-
EDGE Calendar
EDGE Meets Wednesday Evenings from 6:30-8:00pm on Our Lady of Grace Campus.
2025-2026 Calendario en español
-
EDGE Events
Junior High Lock-In: September 19, 2025
The Lock-In is a highlight EDGE activity filled with fun games, hilarious skits, dodgeball, and an enjoyable way to encounter faith, hope, and love!EDGE Retreat: Holy Fire: February 2025
Spend a few days on our campus getting to know the Lord on a deeper level. Enjoy games, talks, prayer, relationship-building, and late-night goofing off.Damascus Catholic Summer Camp - July 2026
EDGE is headed to Centerburg, Ohio for a week to meet kids from across the country, focus on faith in a new way, and try out all the blob launcher on the lake! Contact [email protected] for more info. Space is limited.
-
Core Team of Volunteers
The EDGE Core Team is made up of more than 20 high school juniors & seniors, young adults, parents, and more! It takes a unique person to be on the Core Team, and perhaps you have what it takes! Contact [email protected] to learn more about serving on this team.
-
Receive EDGE UpdatesEDGE communicates with Flocknote, so sign up for our list at the OLG Flocknote page! If you're involved with EDGE at all, you should join this list.
EDGE Flocknote: ourladyofgrace.flocknote.com/edge
Additionally, you can follow OLG EDGE on social media:Facebook: fb.me/olgedge
Instagram: instagram.com/olgedge
-
If you would like to help serve the EDGE community, consider giving in the following ways:
- Sponsor a student for the EDGE Retreat.
- Offer to bring snacks for EDGE Nights.
- Give to our Youth Ministry Scholarship Fund to aid families in affording retreats.
- Share your story or expertise by speaking at an EDGE Night.
- Consider joining the Core Team and giving your Wednesday nights to support our faith.
- Pray for the EDGE Community
-
-
-
EDGE Updates
-
EDGE This Week 6:30-8:00pm Drop off at the Donovan Center October 1st - Ignite Confirmation is another sacrament of Initiation that we'll learn about tonight. Our high school youth minister and...
-
EDGE This Week 6:30-8:00pm Drop off at the Donovan Center September 24th - Suit Up Last week, your children were assigned grade-specific small groups. If they have any needs for that group, please...
-
Oktoberfest is this Saturday, September 27, 6:30 PM - 10:30 PM! We still are in need of many volunteers to make Oktoberfest happen! Please consider volunteering with your family to make this fun...
-
-
Life Teen High School Youth Ministry (9th-12th)
-
About Life Teen
Life Teen is a high school youth ministry for students in 9th-12th grades. Our mission is to grow one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church. Students participate in Sunday Life Nights that tackle current issues, catechize the youth in their Catholic faith, and promote fellowship among our community. Many retreats, special event, conference, and mission trip opportunities are also available to students at Life Teen to help them form their faith. Additionally, bible study, liturgical ministries, music ministry, and leadership opportunities are all common activities in the Life Teen program. A Core Team of adults and young adults lead Life Teen events and strive to form students into valuable contributors of their future Catholic communities.
Want more info? Read our full overview of the Life Teen program, or you can contact us at [email protected].
We look forward to seeing you at Life Teen on Sundays, beginning with the 5:30pm Mass!
-
Life Teen Meets at 5:30pm Sunday Mass through 8:30pm in the Donovan Center!
-
Bethlehem Farm
Bethlehem Farm is a Catholic community in Appalachia that transforms lives through basic home repair in the local community and the teaching of sustainable practices. Bethlehem Farm hosts service immersion weeks in the summer during which students experience a radical lifestyle in which every action revolves around Gospel values of prayer, community, service, and simplicity. Our Lady of Grace has sent more than 400 volunteers to experience the power of a week of serving with Christian intention. Look for this trip in June or July each summer!NCYC
The National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) is a rare opportunity to experience the larger Church. Every two years, more than 25,000 Catholic teenagers meet to hear the best youth ministry speakers, listen to the best Catholic musicians, and celebrate the Sacraments together. Students will stay overnight at a hotel and spend their days attending workshops, concerts, comedy shows, praying, visiting an exhibition hall-sized expo, trading apparel with peers from around the country!Senior Retreat
The Christian Awakening Senior Retreat invites high school seniors from around the Carmel Deanery to come together for a life-changing weekend. This is an experience you simply cannot miss. The Senior Retreat is considered the culmination of our Life Teen youth ministry program.Spirit & Fire
Spirit & Fire is Our Lady of Grace's Confirmation Retreat. Retreat participants will spend Friday and Saturday getting to know each other through witness talks, games, prayer, reconciliation, and small groups. On Sunday, parents of the teens will join in on the chance to share about faith.Spring Retreat
The Spring Retreat is new each year for OLG high school students, but always features a unique retreat environment, powerful witness talks, great music, hilarious games, influential prayer, and lasting friendships built in small groups!Summer YM
On select Wednesdays in June, July, & August, come to the Donovan Center from 7:00-8:30pm on Wednesday nights to join teens and young adults in great games of soccer, frisbee, or Capture the Riggle.
-
Crooked Halo
Our liturgical choir and band lead music and worship at Mass each Sunday. This ministry is a prayerful way to share musical talents!Liturgical Ministers
Particularly at our 5:30pm Sunday Mass, Life Teen students act as ushers, cross bearers, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, and lectors. This is one of the most important services students do for the parish.Knights of the Holy Temple
Knights of the Holy Temple is a group of high school age young men devoted to building fraternity and prayer with a focus for serving at parish liturgical celebrations.Daughters of Grace
Daughters of Grace is a group of high school-aged young ladies committed to their faith through a fuller understanding of the feminine genius and dedication to prayer through shared sisterhood.
-
Way of the Cross
The Way of the Cross is a prayerful reenactment of the Passion of our Lord as portrayed by high school upperclassmen at noon on Good Friday.Bethlehem Farm Service Immersion
Bethlehem Farm is a Catholic community in southern West Virginia that promotes Gospel cornerstones of Prayer, Community, Service & Simplicity. A week at the Farm consists of doing basic home repair or construction projects for low-income or needy families. Students also learn to live simply by being great stewards of God's creation and leaving distractions at home for a week.
-
Our Lady of Grace's Confirmation program is a thorough preparation for the Sacrament. In general, students are Confirmed in the 10th grade after completing our two-year preparation program. We believe that by engaging students in catechesis, retreat experiences, and local service, our young people will be able to live out their strengthening of the Holy Spirit that comes with their Sacrament.
Forms
Confirmation Registration
(Completed with Religious Education Registration in conjunction with Life Teen registration.)
OLG CONFIRMATION PACKET 2025-2026
OLG Adolescent Confirmation Information
Sacramento de la Confirmación
-
Core Team
The Life Teen Core Team is made up of young adults, parents, and more! It takes a unique person to be on the Core Team, and perhaps you have what it takes! Contact us to learn more about serving on this team.
-
Ways to Give
- Donations for students to attend summer mission trips.
- Serve in the kitchen for a retreat.
- Offer to share your own faith witness or expertise at a Life Night.
- Give to our Youth Ministry Scholarship Fund to aid families in affording retreats.
- Help us clean our facility or organize our Donovan Center storage spaces.
- Talk with your students about the their experiences at Life Teen and continue the formation.
- Join us for 5:30pm Sunday Mass as a participant, liturgical minister, or Crooked Halo musician.
- Pray for the Life Teen community.
-
-
-
Life Teen on Flocknote
-
-
Safe & Sacred
Every adult (18+ years of age) who works with minors at Our Lady of Grace, even one time, must complete an online safe conduct training organized by our Diocese. Please click the link below to create a login and begin responsibly interacting with our young people:
Safe & Sacred Training
-
-
-
Support Youth Ministry
There are many ways to ensure that youth ministry at our parish thrives, but one of the best is to contribute to our Youth Ministry Scholarship Fund. We offer dozens of activities each year for students, but these can be a financial burden on families. For this reason, our students often hear that "money is not a good reason to miss out" on a retreat, event, or opportunity to grow in faith. Please consider giving to our YM Scholarship Fund, 100% of which goes toward our Life Teen and EDGE participants taking part in faith activities.
Donate to the Youth Ministry Scholarship Fund
-
-
-
Contact Us
-
JMEckrichologn.orgDirector of Youth and Young Adult Ministry -
JMHagenauerologn.orgCoordinator of High School Ministry and Confirmation -
MJNagleologn.orgYouth Ministry Assistant
-
-