World Youth Day 2019 USA Leader Guides Stateside Leader Guide | Page 25

the possibility of hosting a bilingual stateside
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If families and older (age 35+) members
celebration or one in whatever language is of parishes, dioceses, eparchies, or
most common in the local area, and then movements can participate in the event,
from that reality, identify a target audience. the team will need to consider what roles
Clarifying a primary and secondary audience they are allowed to play, since additional
assists your planning team and is especially attention will need to be paid to child and
important for an event like a stateside World youth protection.
Youth Day for many reasons:
Vision of Success
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There are distinct cultural expectations for Now that you have identified the target
who qualifies as “youth” at an audiences, you can focus on your vision for
international level (in the United States the celebration. What are your goals for the
English-speaking culture, this can be event? How do these goals connect to the
junior high and high school students; in overall vision of WYD? How do they connect
Latino culture, “jóvenes” means mid-teens to the larger vision of evangelizing and
through marriage; in Europe, the term inspiring the young Church? What do you
generally covers the ages 16 to 35). hope to accomplish by the event? What do
you hope participants get out of it? This is the
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Many adults who have had positive time to dream up the ideal event. While this
experiences at a past WYD event may step seems short, crafting a vision for your
desire to participate in some way. audience is a key step in the process – one
that defines every step going forward.
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Dioceses and eparchies often have
different age groups that they include for Objectives & Performance Indicators
international and stateside celebrations. This vision of success for your audience and
outcomes will help you to identify many
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Diocesan and parish leaders may want all objectives that will help you know the steps
young people in their communities (even you need to take to make the vision become a
children) to be able to part icipate, whether reality. Determine three to four objectives for
or not they are within the intended the pilgrimage. These may be tangible (e.g.
audience (age 16-35) of World Youth Day. increase the visibility and awareness of WYD
across every parish in our diocese/eparchy) or
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