The document outlines a total ministry approach to educate through evangelization and evangelize through education with the young person at the center. It discusses developing the young person holistically - physically, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. The key aspects of the ministry include evangelization, catechesis, education, culture, pastoral care, charity, and helping young people grow in their faith and discern their vocations. Challenges include addressing religious pluralism and secularization. The document emphasizes the importance of strategic planning, focusing on processes rather than isolated activities, and creating an educative-pastoral project and sense of common mission within the community.

1. TOTAL MINISTRY

2. TO EDUCATE BY EVANGELISING TO EVANGELISE BY EDUCATING THE LIFE FA I TH

3. THE YOUNG PERSON AT THE CENTRE IN THE WORLD WITH OTHERS TOWARDS G OD WITH ONESELF GROWTH -human -Christian DIMENSIONS - body - intelligence - feelings - will ALL-ROUND DEVELOPMENT

4. A personal encounter with the young person and finding his place in the educational environment AIM EPC VOCACIONAL GROUP ACTIVITY EVANGELISATION-CATECHESIS EDUCATION- CULTURE PASTORAL CHARITY A PERSONALITY CONFORMED TO CHRIST IN AC CORDANCE WITH SALESIAN YOUTH SPIRITUALITY COMMUNITY ASPECT POINT OF DEPARTURE DYNAMICSOF GROWTH

5. 2 3 Make him capable of assimilating culture critically and of an ethical discernment according to a Christian vision of life 1 Encourage a process of personal and social growth that makes the young person responsable of his own life and capable of opening himself to God Place him in a responsible way in his social and cultural context ready to fight against every kind of marginalisation 4 Help the young person to make values his own and to develop the religious aspect of his personality EDUCATIVE-CULTURAL DIMENSION

6. Help the young person to orient to their full maturity in Christ and to their growth in the Church. Irrelevance of the faith Religiuos pluralism Secularisation Christian commitment and missionary awareness Systematic process of education to the faith in a group Educational environment full of evangelical values CHALLENGES: CHOICES: EVANGELISATION-CATECHESIS DIMENSION

7. The group as the educational and evangelising hallmark feature of our ministry Linked to the SYM as the positive experience of the Church Open to all young people, with an animating style and growth-enabling Accompanig them to assume with responsability his place in society and in the Church. GROUP ACTIVITY DIMENSION

8. * Systematic discernment process * Vocational culture: the life as a gift and a service to community * Clear and explicit vocational proposals * Vocational testimony of the educators * With the Salesian Family and the local Church VOCATIONAL DIMENSION Helping the young person to live his life as a vocation and to undertake his own role in the Church and in society

9. PLANNING MENTALITY

10. Strategic Planning MENTALITY More of strategic choices, vision-setting, evaluation Less of initiatives here-and-there, activities left-and-right, and improvisation

12. AN INSTRUMENT: THE SEPP Building the EPC Common mission - shared mentality Changing the situation

13. Community aspect The salesian educative-pastoral project constructs the EPC and develops within it 1 2 It creates a sense of a common mission, a shared way of thinking, combining of resources El proceso educativo 3 Develops in the young a sense of community, a social and ecclesial conscience