1. St. Mark the Evangelist Youth Ministry strives to empower young people to be Disciples of Christ through fun, faith, fellowship, and service. It is our goal to bring teens into the life of the faith community and to enrich their spiritual and personal growth. We hold social events, discipleship projects, and faith sharing activities. Our leadership team is rooted in the Gospel message and dedicated to helping young people develop healthy relationships with Jesus, their friends and family. Our High School Lighthouse meets on Sunday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm in the Worship Area. Middle School teens meet on Wed. Nights for Coffee House from 6:30-8:00 pm. There are service opportunities and Social Ministry Projects listed on the calendar throughout the year. For any questions regarding the calendar and upcoming events, please contact MaryAnn (813) 907-7746 ext. 311 Revised 5/1/12 2012-2013 Youth Ministry Calendar

2. Service to Church Community Opportunities Food Pantry- Help to organize and restock the Food Pantry-every Tuesday from 3- 6:00pm SMARTS Bake SaleHeld twice a year. Check the calendar for dates. Drop off baked goods on the Friday or Saturday before the sale. Lent Fish Fry--- Every Friday of Lent except Good Friday. Help with set up, serving, clean up and wherever else you may be needed. Religious Education Assistant---assist in the Religious Education Classroom. Contact the Religious Education Dept for details. Nursing Home visitation- (This usually falls on the third Saturday of each month, but see calendar for dates.) Usher, Altar Server, Reader, are all Service to the Church Community. Assist with Breakfast with Santa and/or Breakfast with the Easter Bunny. Be creative and come up with your own project to serve your Church Community!

3. June 2012 Come Holy Spirit! SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 121 Adoration 2 3 Blessed Trinity 456 Summer Fun Night –St Mark 6:30-9pm 7 Last day School- Pasco 8 Last day School – Hillsborough 9 10 Corpus Christi 111213141516 17 Fathers Day 181920212223 24252627 Summer Fun Night –St Mark 6:30-9pm 282930 ------------Peer Ministry Training Week # 1 (Basic and Advanced)-----------

4. July 2012 In grateful love we offer you our lives! SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 123 4 Fourth of July! 56 Adoration 7 891011121314 15161718 Summer Fun Night –St Mark 6:30-9pm 192021 Year Round Stewardship Church Community Service 22232425 Summer Fun Night –St Mark 6:30-9pm 262728 St Leo Retreat- July 28-29 29 St Leo Retreat- July 28-29 3031 --------------------Peer Ministry Training Week # 2 (Basic and Advanced)---------------------

5. August 2012 Infuse us with your spirit, the spirit of discipline, order and mildness, and let your flame burn within us forever! SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 121 Summer Fun Night –St Mark 6:30-9pm 23 Adoration4 5678 Summer Fun Night @ OLL 6:30-9:00pm (H.S. only) 91011 12131415 Summer Fun Night@ St Tim 6:30-8:30pm Assumption of Mary 161718 Leader Workshop 9am-3pm 1920 School begins Pasco 21 School begins Hillsborough 22232425 262728293031

6. September 2012 Send us your Spirit that we may live for others as you did. National Childhood Cancer Month SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 1 23 Labor Day 45 6 7 Adoration 8 910 11 Patriot Day 12 13 Sacramental Prep Meeting # 1 7pm 1415 Rock the Universe/Night of Joy 16 Lighthouse Kick-off 6:30-8:30pm 1 Catechetical Sunday 1718 19 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 2021 Set up for International day Church Community Service 22 International Day Church Community Service Social Ministry Wash for Life! 23 Lighthouse 2 6:30-8:30pm 2425 Power up Tuesday! 26 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 272829 30 Lighthouse 3 6:30-8:30pm

7. October 2012 Month of the Rosary/Respect Life Month Today, I commit myself Never to be silent, Never to be passive, Never to be forgetful of the unborn. SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 12345 Adoration 6 St Leo Retreat 7 Lighthouse 4 6:30-8:30pm 8 Columbus Day 910 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 111213 K of C Fall Fest Church Community Service 14 Lighthouse 5 6:30-8:30pm K of C Fall Fest (Church Community) 151617 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 1819 No school-H 20 Time & Talent Church Community Service 21 Lighthouse 6 6:30-8:30pm Time & Talent (Church Community) 22 No school- P 23 Power up Tuesday! 24 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 252627 Social Ministry 40 Days for Life Rosary 28293031 Halloween 272829

8. November 2012 All Saints and All Souls together with them we form one Church and one Body, united by the bond of the same charity in the Kingdom of Christ. ` SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 1 All Saints Day2 Adoration 3 4 Lighthouse 7 6:30-8:30pm 56 Election Day 7 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 8910 11 Lighthouse 8 6:30-8:30pm 12 Veterans Day Observed-Office closed 1314 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 151617 Homeless Retreat Social Ministry & Retreat 18 Homeless Retreat Social Ministry & Retreat 192021222324 25 No Lighthouse 262728 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 29 30 ------- Thanksgiving Holiday 19-23 ----

9. December 2012 Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom His favor rests. Luke 2,14 SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY St Mark Christmas Party 1 2 Lighthouse 9 6:30-8:30pm 345 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 67 Adoration Set up Breakfast w/ Santa Church Community Service 8 Immaculate Conception Breakfast w/ Santa 9am- 11:30 am Church Community Service 9 Lighthouse 10 6:30-8:30pm 101112 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 131415 Social Ministry Metropolitan Ministries 16 Lighthouse 11 6:30-8:30pm 171819 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 202122 23242526272829 3031 Dec 24 - Jan 31 Winter Break Pasco Dec 24 - Jan 31 Dec 24 - Jan 4 Winter Break Hillsborough Dec 24 - Jan 4 Baby Shower For Jesus Week To Benefit Catholic Charities Baby Shower For Jesus Week To Benefit Catholic Charities

10. January 2013 Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with you… SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 1 Mary Mother of God 234 Adoration 5 6 Lighthouse 12 6:30-8:30pmVocations Make-Up sign up 7 No school -P 8910 Parent Meeting # 2 7pm 1112 Social Ministry Project Migrant Farm Workers 13 Lighthouse 13 6:30-8:30pm 141516 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 17 Confirmation Class #1 6:30-9:00pm 1819 2021 Martin Luther King No school-H 22 No school- H 23 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 242526 27 27Lighthouse 14 6:30-8:30pm 2829 Power up Tuesday! 30 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 31 Retreat Planning 6:30pm Vocation Awareness Week ------- Winter Break Hillsborough Dec 24- Jan 4------------ ------- Winter Break Hillsborough Dec 24- Jan 4------------ ----------Winter Break Pasco Dec 24-Jan 4----------- ----------Winter Break Pasco Dec 24-Jan 4-----------

11. February 2013 I offer myself entirely to you, for love of you. SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 1 Adoration 2 K of C Spaghetti Dinner Church Community Service Project 3 Super bowl Sunday 456 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 7 Confirmation Class #2 6:30-9:00pm 89 10 Lighthouse 15 6:30-8:30pm Packets due 111213 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 141516 Social Ministry Project Ronald McDonald House 1718 Presidents Day No School -P 1920 Ash Wednesday 212223 24 Lighthouse 16 6:30-8:30pm 2526 Power up Tuesday! 27 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 28 Bethany Gals Retreat 2/1-2/2

12. March 2013 I wish to do everything for you and with you. SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 1 Adoration 2 St Leo Retreat 3 Lighthouse 17 6:30-8:30pm 456 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 7 Confirmation Class #3 6:30-9:00pm 8 Easter Bunny Set- up 9 Breakfast w/ Easter Bunny 9am-11:30 am 10 No Lighthouse 111213141516 Social Ministry TBA 17 Lighthouse 18 6:30-8:30pm Make-up/Sign up 181920 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 2122 YM Stations of the Cross 7pm Church Community Service 23 24 Palm Sunday 25262728 Holy Thursday 29 Good Friday 30 Holy Saturday 31 Easter Sunday Leader Lock In & Fast -----------------------Spring Break –H 3/11-3/15-------------------------- - -----------------Spring Break- P 3/25-3/29---------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------Holy Week------------------------------------------------- Church Community Service

13. April 2013 I place my trust in you. SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 1 234 Retreat Planning 6:30 pm5 Adoration6 7 Lighthouse 19 6:30-8:30pm Divine Mercy 8 910 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 111213 14 Lighthouse 20 6:30-8:30pm Packets Due 1516 17 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 18 1920 21 Lighthouse 21 6:30-8:30pm Earth Day 222324 Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 252627 K of C Spaghetti Dinner Church Community Service Social Ministry Tampa Beautification 28 Lighthouse 22 6:30-8:30pm Confirmation requirements due 2930 Power up Tuesday! Bethany Guys Retreat

14. May 2013 I fear all things from my own weakness, but I hope all things from your goodness. SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 1 Last Coffee House 6:30-8:00 pm 23 Adoration4 5 Lighthouse Blast! 23 6:30-8:30 pm 6 789 Ascension Thursday 1011 12 Mothers Day 13 1415161718 19 Pentecost 202122232425 26 Trinity Sunday 2728293031

15. June 2013 May we follow go out to the world, sharing what we have, loving without asking in return, and living all for you. SUNDAYMONDAYTUESDAYWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 1 23 45678 9 10 1112131415 16 171819202122 23242526272829 30