World Youth Day 2019 USA Leader Guides Stateside Leader Guide | Page 39

The Week After the Event pilgrims (possibly with a vocational focus:
¨ Collect the evaluations or send out online what is God now calling you to say, to do,
to be in life after World Youth Day?)
survey for event participants; set deadline
for receiving feedback
After the event, plans should be drawn up for
¨ Hold a debriefing meeting with core team
continuing formation, evangelization, and
and lead volunteers
mission opportunities for the pilgrims in the
¨ Send thank you notes to significant
months that follow.
volunteers, collaborators, leadership of the
community (bishop, pastor, lay ministers,
Consider developing additional checklists for
or others), assisting priests, deacons, and
these next steps. After a year has passed,
religious, site/venue contacts, vendors,
assess the success of this event once more by
service providers, and others who
measuring the involvement, investment, and
contributed to the stateside celebration
actions of the pilgrims. Are they still engaged?
¨ Email stateside participants with further
opportunities for them to get connected Look ahead to possibly hosting an annual
into ongoing ministries and the Church gathering for youth and/or young adults, as
¨ Begin preparations for a reunion event
well as a stateside celebration on the occasion
of the next international WYD.
with stateside pilgrims and international
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