Welcome to the Youth Community at
St. Joseph's Church!  

You're invited! Middle School and High School teens, grades 6-12, are welcome, and encouraged, to attend and participate in Youth Group! We meet twice a month on Sundays during the school year. Our 6th and 7th graders meet on Sunday afternoons from 3:00-4:45, and our 8th-12th graders meet on Sunday evenings from 6-8 PM. The 5 PM Sunday Mass is the center of our Youth Ministry meetings!

There are other special events like guest speakers, and service opportunities set up each month. All teens, again grades 6-12, are welcome to sign up and attend these events.

All teens do need to be registered for Youth Group, even if you will be attending only a few Youth Group Nights or partcipating in just a few extra activities/events. This is for safey purposes. Registration forms can be found on the link to the right of this page. There is no registration fee for Youth Group!

Take a look at the Calendar on the submenu at the right of this page, to see the specific topics for each night that we hold Youth Group. A calendar for the 2016-2017 school year is available and will be updated occasionally so be sure to keep checking it for changes, and/or added, events.

You're very welcome to bring a friend, even if they're not a parishioner. Just click this link to fill out the emergency contact form, print it out and bring it to the meeting with you.

Parents or guardians are also welcome to attend any Youth Group Night meetings!

Parents or guardians are needed to help volunteer at Youth Group Nights. Help is needed from monitoring open gym time, to checking teens in, to setting and cleaning up the food, to assisting catechists during break-out sessions. If you can't come to a youth group night, we also need your help by sending in donations of sides and desserts for the evening's meal. Please contact Tracey Merriman, Youth Ministry Volunteer Coordinator, at  tmerrimansjc@gmail.com to let her know which night you can help out with, and with what exactly you will volunteer for (sending in food donations or helping with the actual night). Thank you!

We look forward to having the tweens and teens of St. Joseph's join us! Please contact Lisa Mannella, Director of Youth Ministry, at lmannella@sjcpenfield.com, or Fr. Justin Miller, Parochial Vicar, at fr.justin.miller@dor.org with any questions, concerns, or suggestions you might have about Youth Group. 

Thank you once more! May God bless you always.