Sion Community Missions for Secondary Schools
led by Sion Youth

Missions for Secondary Schools

A Secondary School Sion Community Mission (a "Sion Youth Mission") brings our Sion Youth team to work with your school for a week to help pupils and members of the wider school community encounter God and grow in understanding of the Catholic faith.

A Sion Youth Mission enables a school to:

• Revisit its mission as a Catholic School.
• Have the Gospel proclaimed in a radical and accessible way to both staff and pupils within the school context.
• Establish stronger links with the feeder Parishes of the school, and to enable pupils who want to return to a Parish to make that journey.

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It achieves this through a three stage Mission Process:

• Pre Mission
• Mission Week
• Post Mission

A Sion Youth Mission is a time for a school community to revisit its mission as a Catholic school and to have the Gospel proclaimed in a radical and accessible way to both staff and pupils within the school context. It will achieve this through the adaptable programme displayed below. Learn more on our Secondary Mission Process page and in our Resources for Teachers and Chaplains.

Who are Sion Youth?

Sion Youth exists to spread hope amongst the whole church by leading young people to Christ

The Sion Catholic Community for Evangelism includes experienced evangelisers who have made a long-term commitment to the work of Sion Community; young adults who have committed to spend one year receiving training and taking part in missions as part of the Sion Youth Foundation Year; and Associate Members who include young adults in full time work study who also volunteer for the work of Mission. So "Sion Youth" is our branding for events run for and/or by teenagers and young adults. The young adults on our foundation year work primarily on our Secondary School Missions but may assist in other Sion Community activities as their availability allows. All our missionaries are DBS-checked for work with children and young people.

Testimony

​"Having the Sion Mission group spend a week with us was, without doubt, the highlight of the year so far.  All of the members showed great witness to their faith and did so with enormous energy, enthusiasm and love. They managed to engage our students across year groups, nationalities and faiths with great sensitivity and listened with great care to all our ideas and views. Preparation was thorough and disruption kept to a very manageable minimum. Our staff, not of all of whom knew quite what to expect, were equally positive and a few very pleasantly surprised! Our parents very much enjoyed the 'Main Event' and were fulsome in their praise of the evening, but also for the impact it had on their child.  If I could have them back every year, I would!"
 
Paulo Durán, Headmaster of St. Edmund's College, Ware.