EDGE helps you connect with other Middle Schoolers in our parish.
Together, find where your faith can lead! In January, EDGE will help you get ready for your Confirmation program.  See more information below. 

To Register, click HERE.

Schedule for the 2020-2021 coming soon!!

EDGE will serve as the Pre-Confirmation year of formation for those not attending Catholic School.

At EDGE the youth will explore their Catholic Faith with their peers through fun activities, service opportunities, wittness talks, interactive activities, prayer, sharing of the gospels, teachings from scriptures and the Catechism of the Catholic Church and personal encounters with Christ.

Once we are able to gather in groups again, there will be additional opportunities for the middle school youth at St. Stephen the Martyr Parish.  Some of those opportunities include Lock-Ins, Spring Sea Quest, NET Retreat,  serve in ministries at weekend masses, participate in special theme nights and offsite outings, and more.

If you have a heart for teens and a passion for sharing the gospel, then God may be calling YOU to walk with the youth at St. Stephen's on their Faith Journey.  

Adult volunteers are always needed to serve as Core Team Members, engaging the youth in community and helping the youth to make the connection between faith and their everyday life.

Parents make great Core Team Members and it is a wonderful opportunity for parents to grow in their own faith as they journey with their children / teens.

Core Team Leaders assists with leading large and small group activites.
Core Team Members must be at least four years older than the youth that they are working with. 

At St. Stephen's we  journey with children and youth ages 5 - 18.  So there are many opportuniteis to serve.

• Do you like to study the Bible or learn the why behind the what we believe as Catholics? 
• Do you like to serve the poor and those in need? 
• Do you like to play games/sports and have fun with the youth?     
• Do you like to pray?  Core Team will model how to pray and help to provide opportunities where the youth can have a personal encournter with Christ.   Then maybe, just maybe, God is calling you to be a part of the St. Stephen's EDGE Core Team.

You may be thinking, "I do not have enough training or I am not formed well enough in my own Catholic Faith to lead teens."     We know that  God does not call the qualified, but qualifies the called? 

Training opportunities are available to help small group leaders learn to lead a small group of teens.  
All small groups will have two adult leaders, so you would not be in it alone.  

For more information about how you can be involved or if you would like to sign up to join the team, contact Debbie Blomquist at sstm.youth@gmail.com.