Parish Youth Groups (God’s TYM)

God’s TYM (Total Youth Ministry) is a CYFM-developed program for parish youth groups. Over 20 parishes use this program, and each Cap Corps volunteer serves as the God’s TYM youth minister in one parish for the year.

Our volunteers plan and lead weekly youth group meetings in local parishes.

They develop relationships with teenagers and families throughout the year.

Our volunteers get unique exposure to parish life as youth ministers.

CYFM provides resources and on-going mentoring to our Cap Corps volunteers & other area youth ministers.

The volunteers support one another by sharing ideas and experiences about these meetings.

"Effective ministry with adolescents [is] built on relationships. The central place of the Emmaus story in A Vision of Youth Ministry demonstrates the primacy of relationships and of discovering God within those relationships."

from the Bishops’ letter Renewing the Vision.