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Serve Like Don Bosco
St. John Bosco drew young people to God with his presence. But he couldn’t do it alone – he needed lay people like you!
Choosing to serve can feel risky. But you’ll be glad you did. Your experience will shape the way you work, pray, and see your purpose in life.
Deciding Your Next Steps in Life?
We discern with you how to best use your gifts. You can teach, work in a parish, run retreats, help at-risk children, care for refugees and more.
Jump into each day like Don Bosco. Pray with the Salesians, laugh with the children, and watch God provide for you in surprising ways. Pour yourself out to the kids. You’ll be amazed at what you can do!
Educating For Life
You can help break the cycle of poverty by providing a quality education to vulnerable youth. At Salesian schools, young children attend classes, participate in sports and other activities and have a safe place to learn and grow.
Health & Medical Services
Use your professional knowledge to serve the sick at a Salesian clinic, hospital, or dispensary. Be it a nurse or medical doctor, the impact of healthcare ministry is quick and powerful.
Taking Care of the At-Risk
Do you have a caring and empathetic heart? Do you desire to help provide basic living necessities for youth? Why not serve at one of many shelters and homes where you can help counsel, stabilize, and educate those youth at-risk.
Closer to Jesus
Be a Salesian Youth Minister and help young people come to know and love Jesus Christ. Our way of ministering to young people guides them to serve others and the Church in the style of St. John Bosco – to form ‘upright citizens and good Christians.’
Reaching out to those in need
As a Salesian Lay Missioner, you will have the unique opportunity to make lasting positive impacts on entire communities – establishing school outreach programs, evaluating community needs, or simply listening to those who want to be heard. You can be that change!
Meet the SLMs
Meet the current lay missioners who have committed themselves to furthering Don Bosco’s and the church’s mission of serving those at-risk.
What do you hope to accomplish thru your SLM mission?
To help people in need and to educate each other and build each other up so that we stay on God’s path for us.
Why have you joined the Salesian Lay Missioner program and/or what do you hope to accomplish thru your SLM mission?
I wanted to be immersed within Faith and intentional poverty. I desired to be stripped of all my securities. Renewing my spiritual life by living amongst the poor was attractive. The Salesians of Don Bosco’s charism is centered around living out the Gospel through prayer and service.
What do you expect to do on mission?
To love and serve the Lord through acts of charity towards His most materially vulnerable sons and daughters. I foresee myself being humbled by other’s Faith and strength.
As an SLM, I want to approach every day with a heart full of compassion, serving the most vulnerable with love and understanding, just as Christ did. I aim to embrace patience and adaptability, ready to immerse myself in new cultures and challenges, building connections that foster hope and transformation. My goal is to work with unwavering faith and humility, trusting in God’s plan as I join others in our shared mission to bring love and kindness to the world.
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