About NET Ministries

NET Ministries is a Catholic non-profit youth retreat organisation. Each year NET Ministries recruits, trains and commissions travelling and parish-based retreat teams, made up of young Catholic adults who volunteer a year of their lives to serve the Church. The travelling teams travel across Australia at the invitation of schools and parishes and lead retreats six days a week for young people. The parish-based teams spend their year with a parish, or diocese, ministering to the young people and their families.

A NET retreat presents the Gospel in an exciting and wholly relevant way for today's youth.

NET Ministries has been in operation in Australia since 1988. Each year 40 young adults volunteer to serve on NET Teams across Australia. Each year 30,000 young people experience a NET retreat in their school or parish.

Why do over 150 schools throughout Australia continue to book NET Ministries to conduct their student retreats?

• The retreats are fully facilitated by the NET Team
• The team of 12 bring a dynamic youthful face that assists your students in entering fully into the activities
• The retreat leads students to a deeper understanding of self, peers and God
• Powerful opportunity of Youth - Youth retreat ministry
• The faith of the NET Teams give witness that faith is a desirable, acceptable and exciting part of their lives
• The team members are trained by NET Ministries who annually conduct retreats for over 30,000 students around Australia
• The retreats support the Religious Education curriculum of the school
• Wide selection of themes and retreat formats to suit the schools needs
• The teams are available to conduct the retreats at the school or at a venue chosen by the school
• Booking a NET Team provides an excellent and refreshing retreat format
  

  The goals of a NET retreat are:

1. To enhance the self esteem of each individual through their awareness of God's unconditional love and acceptance of them;
2. To encourage a positive attitude towards their faith, family,
   society and the Church; and
3. To demonstrate through the lives of the team members the value of a personal faith in Christ and to encourage young people to make their own response to Christ

An open letter from Archbishop John Bathersby
The standard retreat themes available

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