Consider this.
Many of your peers, friends and siblings:
- No longer go to church
- Lack good Catholic role models
- Don't share in your passion for your faith
- Have lost or will lose their faith by the time they leave high school.
God might be calling you to spend a year as a NET missionary sharing your faith with young people across Canada
Collectively, in an average 9 month NET year, NET’s Retreat teams will:
Travel coast to coast
Serve 12 to 16 dioceses
Facilitate nearly 120 retreats
Stay in 125 host homes
Reach 8,500 young people one-on-one with the Gospel
A missionary year with NET is not for everyone, but for those who are called it is a life changing experience like no other. NET Missionaries embrace a radical lifestyle, living with just one suitcase, one backpack, and one life-changing message. A NET Missionary year transforms young people through:
An intensive 5-week training experience for youth ministry
Missionary experiences in community
Daily team and personal prayer
Team Days and ongoing formation from Team Supervisors
OUR STORY
NET (National Evangelization Teams) Ministries officially began in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1982. After a team of young adults spent a few weeks conducting retreats in local high schools, high demand for these retreats developed and NET Ministries was born. In 1994, James Mikulasik and Tiffany Scott, two Canadians who were missionaries in Minnesota, responded to an invitation from Archbishop Emeritus Marcel Gervais, to come to Ottawa and NET Canada was born.
NET Canada began as one travelling retreat team, but quickly expanded with the addition of more teams. Soon, parishes began requesting more follow-up to NET retreats and parish ministry teams were born. Over the years, NET Canada has sent teams to Ireland and multiple french communities in Canada, as well to northern Indigenous communities in the Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort Smith and the Archdiocese of Keewatin-La Pas.
Since the founding of NET Canada, over 700 young adults have served as NET missionaries and over 300,000 young people have heard the Gospel through an encounter with a NET team.
Young people’s lives are being transformed through an encounter with Jesus Christ, and we hope to continue bringing hope and re-engaging youth in their Catholic faith for years to come!