THINKfast is our parish’s annual social justice event for youth, which aims to help participants learn more about a particular issue facing the world’s poor and what we can do to make a difference from here in Canada.

This year’s theme is “Searching for Safety” – we will be focusing on forced migration and the refugee crisis.

Through games, simulation activities, videos, conversations, and prayer, we will explore how factors like war, persecution, extreme poverty, and environmental changes have left many people with no other option than to undertake difficult and dangerous journeys in search of safer places to make their homes. We hope to grow in our understanding of what it is like to go through this experience and see how our faith calls us to respond.

Participants will also abstain from solid foods while they are at THINKfast as a reminder of those who must go without their basic needs every day and to join with them in solidarity.

Age Group: Grade 5 and up

Drop-off: 5:30pm on Friday, March 7

Pick-up: 3:30pm on Saturday, March 8

Location: Parish Centre (behind the main church building)

Cost: $25 (Cheques can be made payable to “St. Francis Xavier Parish”)
– $15 for those in Grade 10 and up who would like to assist as leaders

Registration deadline: Tuesday, March 4
– Please return your registration form and payment to the Parish Office (304 Highway 8, Stoney Creek).

Click here to access the registration package, which includes more information.

Please feel free to contact Wes Moga (parish youth minister) at 905-662-8593 ext. 6 or wmoga@hamiltondiocese.com with any questions.