Young Family Small Groups

During this fight against the Coronovirus please continue to conference call or meet using an online meeting platform to check in, share prayer, and support your YFSG families.  We may be at home and quarantined, but we are still the church and we are still called to live and share the Good News.  Keep social distancing and healthy, but please connect with your family and friends and neighbors to let them know you are there for them and will be holding them in prayer!  

It is our hope at SLDM to strengthen the domestic church.  So often new and young parents are pulled in a million directions, and it is easy to be distracted by life.  We pray husbands and wives will have their faith renewed and grow with other young couples to be the spiritual leaders of their families.  We also recognize how important it is for our kids to be around other active Catholic families and to know that being a child of God is a joyful blessing.  With this goal in mind, SLDM is launching Young Family Small Groups (Y.F.S.G.) where young couples and families can grow in their faith together.  Yes, you read that correctly, kids are not only welcome, but they are encouraged to be present.  Any and all parents or families with young children are welcome to join us!

So what is a Y.F.S.G.?

• Small groups include 3-4 families who can walk together in faith and life
• Gatherings will be 4 times during the Season of Lent 
• If you are new, once you sign up below we will connect you with other families
• SLDM will provide the formation content, but it will be up to each Y.F.S.G. to determine the host, food option, childcare provision, patron saint and dedicated devotion

Sample Template for Y.F.S.G. Gatherings (can be adapted to each Y.F.S.G.)

• 25 min. gather and fellowship (family food time)
• 15 min. opening prayer as families (dedicated devotion: rosary, divine mercy etc)
• 40 min. formation and discussion (Advent 3 week Series)
  • Kids go into another room with the childcare provision
• 5 min. closing prayer (family blessing, intercessions etc)
• 5 min. fellowship and sending (depart for homes)

• We encourage the Y.F.S.G. to choose and pray their dedicated devotion at each meeting 
• We encourage the Y.F.S.G. to ask for their patron saint to intercede for them at each meeting