Missionary Discipleship

This term we are focusing on how we can be Missionary Disciples, especially in a time when we are not seeing each other as often as we would like.

Please get involved by doing the action each week yourself and sending a photo or a video (which can be used on YouTube and on this website) to tshannon@aquinas-cmat.org.

Your photos and videos will feature in this gallery and wil be used as a positive message to bring some joy to the lives of people across our Diocese in the ‘Friday Night Live’ live stream on NDCYS live on YouTube.

Week 11 – Make a decision to help others

Week 10 – Saying thank you!

Your examples

Week 9 – Keeping in touch

Your examples

Mille from St Martin’s Stoke Golding: For the discipleship challenge I called my friend Chris who goes to the same church as me, She is going to be 80 this year and she was telling me about the mice and rabbit family she has made during lockdown. I really enjoy talking to her and I have attached a photo of the families.

Ross from St Martin’s Stoke Golding: “I made a phone call to my grandparents who live about an hour away from me. I have been calling them regular and I cant wait until I can see them in person. After the latest update, on easing lockdown for those shielding, I will be able to see them sooner than later. Both my grandparents and I are excited to be able to meet up and have already started planning a BBQ.”

Elsie Adcock keeping in touch with her Grandparents

Since lockdown began; we have been having bedtime storytime via FaceTime with Athenë’s Grandma and Grampie.

Vicki explains that this week’s theme is knowledge and has set us the challenge of sharing a piece of knowledge or a life-hack with someone else. This could be with someone in your class, it could be showing your mum or dad how to use some technology properly (haha!) or sharing a trick or life-hack with all of us! Send your examples in to me by thursday please!

Your examples

Students from St Thomas More in Leicester explain what knowledge they’ve been sharing

Jack from St Peter’s shares his life hack

Week 7 – Create your own prayer space at home

Your examples

This weeks challenge is to follow in the footsteps of the Disciples after Pentecost, by sharing a message of love or hope with someone in a different language. Remember to send in a photo or video of you completing the challenge!

Your examples

Week 5 – Learn a skill and get sponsored for charity!

Naomi, from the Briars, gives us our next Missionary Discipleship challenge

Charities are finding things hard at the moment because lots of fundraising events have had to be cancelled. This week, you are being challenged to learn a new skill, or perhaps use an existing one, to get sponsored and raise money for your chosen charity. Send in your examples to tshannon@aquinas-cmat.org by thursday to feature on the Friday Night Live show in YouTube and on here!

Your examples

Jack Barker share’s a stop-motion story

In this weeks challenge, you are being encouraged to be a Missionary Disciple by sharing a story with someone. This could be by reading a Bible story or your favourite story and recording it for a loved one. It could mean that you read a story to some younger students in school or for a younger relative. Maybe you could even come up with your own story on a storyboard? Send them in to us!

Alexa, Georgia, Dahlia and Niamh share their stories.

Harry from St Francis in Melton Mowbray reading his favourite Bible story

Lucy and Ruby Chapman share a bed-time story

Jack Barker, Y4 at St Peter’s Catholic Primary school in Hinckley reads ‘What the Ladybird heard’

Inigo (from St Mary’s Catholic primary school, Loughborough) reading “We are three, you are three” from The Song of The Bird by A de Mello with his brother, Mikael, and sister, Amadea.