I just spent a great weekend in the diocese of Fort Worth for their annual youth conference, DCYC. Kevin Prevou is diocesan director there.

I was so impressed by a few things:

• The logistics.

There were over 1000 middle- and high school teens as well as adults there. There were no hotel complaints. There were awesome activities on Sat. Night- a movie room, improv room, “who wants to be a Catholic millionaire?”game show, a coffee house‘; return true;” onmouseout=”window.status='’; return true;”>coffee house and a dance.

• The speakers…

Sr. Mary Fagin was the other keynote presenter and s was in awe of her ease with teens and her ability to get a message across. Her presentation style was refreshing…she used teens hi her presentation most effectively.

• The musicians–

it was so cool to see young people lead the music for the weekend under the leadership of Jesse Manibusan and Curtis Stephan; these 2 quality musicians really used their gifts. And let those of teen singers and musicians shine forth.

• A super neat bonus for me was to meet Jesse’s wife, Jodi Manibusan and his daughter, Jenna. I see why Jesse likes being home. You could ‘’feel the love” just being around all of them.

Bishop Vann, the Bishop of their diocese spent a lot of time among the teens and even played along Jesse and Curtis from the stage in Saturday afternoon. It was great to see this.

All in all, it was a great weekend.

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