High School (9-12)

Youth Ministry at St. John the Evangelist is a ministry FOR and FROM our young people.  The primary goals of our youth ministry are to empower young people to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today, to draw young people to responsible participation in the life, mission, and work of the Catholic faith community, and to foster the total personal and spiritual growth of each young person.

As part of Religious Education, we make sure to combine faith and fun in a way that helps you grow in your knowledge of the faith, continue to develop your relationship with Christ, and grow closer to each other in the process.

Grades 9 & 10: Church History / Social Justice / Supernaturals / New Testament
Grade 11 & 12: Apologetics / Prayer / Faith & Reason / Theology of the Body 



Throughout the year, we also participate in service projects to help make a difference in our community, including cooking and serving a meal at Warming Souls and making sandwiches for the homeless.

We have several special events and ministry opportunities throughout the year:

Steubenville Conference | Prayer & Action | March for Life | DCYC | Donut Sundays | Graduation Breakfast

 Each year, we attend a Steubenville Youth Conference, a weekend youth conference focusing on a life-changing encounter with Christ. Our 2020 conference was cancelled due to Covid-19.

 Prayer & Action is a weeklong mission trip within our diocese to serve those in need. We live modestly for the week, staying in schools or parish buildings and working during the day on houses/property/helping the elderly, disabled, underprivileged. We live in community for the week, so we eat together and cook for one another, play games, praying together, and attend daily Mass, adoration, rosary, talks, and more to grow our faith through service and the Sacraments.

Prayer & Action 2020 was cancelled due to Covid-19.

 Each January, we gather with hundreds of thousands across the country for the annual March for Life in Washington, DC. Along with hundreds of others from the Diocese of Wichita, we take a bus trip to the nation's capital to stand together in witness for life.



Learn more at https://marchforlife.org/

 We join with other teenagers from around the Diocese of Wichita for this annual weekend conference, featuring speakers, a dance, Mass with the bishop, an awards dinner and more.

DCYC 2020 was cancelled due to Covid-19.

 Once a month, St. John's Youth Ministry hosts Donut Sunday after the 8 am and 10:30 am Masses. Beginning at 7:30 am, we start to bake the donuts and then we frost and decorate them ourselves, and serve our parish family. Parishioners participate in a free will offering, and the money raised goes to a charity of the Youth Ministry's choice.


In the past, we've been able to raise funds for:

• Pews for a church in Africa: $5,000

• A Better Choice: $2,500

• Dirty Vagabond Ministries: $1,000

• Seminarian Education & Priest Retirement Fund: $500

• Family Missions Company: $500

 At the end of each school year we celebrate all of our young parishioners graduating from high school. The Altar Society provides a beautiful breakfast celebration that the students from the Junior class cook and serve for the Seniors and their parents.