Team Life

What's it like to be on a NET team?

Each team hits the road in October, armed with suitcases, sleeping bags, guitars, bibles, pictures from home and hearts burning for Christ!

There are two types of teams. 1) Retreat Teams & 2) Parish Teams:

Retreat Team

Retreat teams lead around 5 to 6 retreats a week, and when not on retreat, the NET teams share their faith whenever and wherever possible.

How do you travel from one town to the next I hear you asking? Home sweet... mini-bus! With such a busy ministry schedule, your mini-bus is home sweet home and one of the best places to hang out and recharge with your teammates. The mini-bus faithfully takes you to the next fields ready for harvest, providing a nice place of refuge along the way.

As you travel the length and bredth of Ireland you will stay with host families along the way. Sometimes this will be for an overnight and sometimes it can be as long as a week. It has been amazing and humbling to hear what a positive influence the missionaries have been to the families that host them.

Parish Team

The Parish Teams dive into parish life by attending school and parish events, joining youth at their local hangouts and sporting games, and sharing the light of Christ with all those they encounter. Because the parish team is based in the one parish throughout the whole school year, deep lasting relationships are made with the youth and families they minister too.

The Parish team recruits and trains young adult leaders in youth ministry so that the ministry will continue long after the team is gone.

Fellow Missionaries

Your relationship with the other missionaries on your team will be among the deepest, most challenging and most rewarding relationships you'll ever have. You'll laugh, cry, and struggle alongside one another. Through it all you'll grow together. You'll learn what it means to truly love and to truly be loved. Missionaries are a gift from God to one another. And most often, it is not the ministry skills that the young people notice on a NET retreat, but the love that the missionaries have for one another.