LSA TEACHER ATTENDS SALM WORKSHOP
From 1 October to 3 October Director of Campus Ministry, Christine Estes, attended the Luke Salm Religious Education Workshop in Eatontown, NJ. The Salm Workshop is sponsored annually by the District of Eastern North American (De La Salle Christian Brothers) and has as its goal to bring together religious educators, campus ministers, and administrators from the District's ministries to learn about and to discuss issues of import in the fields of evangelization and catechesis.
The theme of this year's Salm Workshop was "The Growing Trend of Disaffiliated Young Catholics." The main presenter was John Vitek, President of Saint Mary's Press (a Lasallian ministry from the mid-West and the publishing house of many religious education texts used in Lasallian schools across the English-speaking world).
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The theme of this year's Salm Workshop was "The Growing Trend of Disaffiliated Young Catholics." The main presenter was John Vitek, President of Saint Mary's Press (a Lasallian ministry from the mid-West and the publishing house of many religious education texts used in Lasallian schools across the English-speaking world).
Over the past two years, Saint Mary’s Press has been engaged in a national research project, in partnership with the Center for the Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University to conduct a study of teens and young adults who had previously self-identified as Catholic but no longer do so (disaffiliated) ages 15-25. This research is showing that changing territory, as discussed in 2013, has shifted significantly over the past four years. These shifts should have a significant impact on how we evangelize, how we teach religion and the functioning of campus ministry.
John Vitek shared the results of this most recent study with the participants and they considered its implication for the teaching of religion and the way we conduct pastoral ministry in Lasallian schools.
La Salle Academy is a high school rich in history and grounded in the person and teachings of Jesus and the Catholic faith, which are core to the school's life and culture. The De La Salle Middle School provides a strong holistic foundation for students to transition into high school. The high school and middle school provide students of diverse ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds, a community to foster growth in the tradition of St. John Baptist de La Salle’s ideals of faith, service, and community.
