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Korean diocese offers formation program for young missionaries Year-long program also aims to help young Catholics strengthen their faithPart of the poster for the Cheongju Youth Missionary Training program. (Image supplied) August 4, 2017Cheongju Diocese in South Korea will train young Catholics to become missionaries by living the Gospel and spreading its message to others. The Youth Ministry Department of the diocese will begin the one-year long Cheongju Youth Missionary Training(CYMT)' program this month. The program aims to help young Catholics in their faith and to train them as missionaries. Father David Yang Yun-seong, youth ministry director of the diocese, said: "We will try to raise these youth's awareness as missionaries and help them to share their faith with their neighbors." The program includes the church's teachings on missionary work, meetings with missionaries plus exposure to local and overseas missionary activities. The CYMT program is in line with Cheongju Diocese's long-term pastoral plan to be a "community spreading the Gospel all over the world." Bishop Gabriel Chang Bong-hun of Cheongju said in his 2017 pastoral letter, "Cheongju Diocese will offer and support various programs to train the youth as future missionaries based on their missionary experience and thus help them be main players evangelizing the whole world." Related Reports |