NET stands for National Evangelisation Teams. We are Catholic missionaries who share Jesus' gospel message with young people in a team format. NET Ministries of Ireland challenge young Catholics to love Christ and embrace the life of the Church. NET Ireland recruits and trains teams to evangelise to over 7000 youth every year in parishes, schools, and dioceses across Ireland.
NET’s mission, to challenge young Catholics to love Christ and embrace the life of the Church, is accomplished by:
* Proclaiming the Gospel of Christ through a personal witness of faith
* Inviting young people to live for Christ
* Forming young people in Christian character through the study and practice of our faith
* Equipping youth workers and young adults with the ministry skills needed for evangelization.
Our churches are not as full as we would like them to be, vibrant young people who want to share their faith are stepping out and volunteering to share the gospel message with us.
In these times of complexity, God wants all of us to make a difference in the lives of others by repairing a broken world...repairing a broken heart. This can simply be done through grace and acts of charity. Sharing Jesus' love with others. Our missionaries do just that.
NET HISTORY
NET Ministries began in 1981 when an "experimental" travelling retreat team was sent out from the Catholic Youth Centre in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. After a favourable response, demand for the ministry increased and additional teams were assembled to meet these growing needs.
Presently, there are NET Ministries' offices in Canada, Australia, United States, and Ireland. Each year, several hundred missionaries are trained and equipped from these four countries.
IN IRELAND
In the Autumn of 2004, NET Canada sent a three month mission team to Ireland to say, "Thank you" to all the Irish missionaries of religious and priests that evangelised Canada by evangelising the youth there. The team of 12 missionaries travelled through schools, parishes and universities facillitating retreats and evenings of prayer as a means to proclaim the Good news of Jesus Christ. The results were far greater than expected. Teenagers began writing in, expressing their gratitude for their new found faith and hope. One Dublin priest, after hearing countless confessions during retreats said "you have restored my faith in the sacrament of confession, which I thought was a dead sacrament."
The following five years of expansion to a full ministry year has made a powerful impact in the lives of countless teenagers, families and religious in Ireland.
Today NET Ministries of Ireland sends out two teams of young adult missionaries who lead retreats and develop lifeteen programs for Catholic youth across Ireland.
Our office is situated in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal at 13A Lower Main Street. You can contact us on 074 91 25839
