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For several youth leaders throughout the Diocese of Phoenix, social media sites are no longer a place to share what’s on their mind.
Instead, Facebook, Twitter and even blogs have become a primary tool for youth leaders to evangelise and connect more effectively with teens and young adults.
The sites not only provide instantaneous and free forms of outreach, but they are already being used by a vast majority of the youth and young adults.
“When I asked how many students had Facebook, only about five or six of 80 students did not have one,” said Barbara Lishko, youth minister at St. Andrew’s parish in Chandler. “When we came back from a retreat one of our leaders put together our Facebook page and almost within a day most of the 27 kids that went on the retreat had already found our page. It’s the fastest way to communicate and most of them check it more frequently.”
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