Retreat Team Members for 2011 & Participants

To: All of you who have ever been on a Focus LIFE (AKA - Life Search) week-end retreat.
From: Fr. John
Re:  Team members for the week-end retreats in Detroit (June 24-26) and Chicago (TBD)
Date: May 20, 2011

• Do you want to be on team? It is great spiritually-centered leadership training.
• We are planning our week-ends beginning June 24-26 in Detroit.
• Do you want to send someone to the week-end in Detroit? It is great to awaken the talents of those who connect and synergize each other
• It will be held in Southwest Detroit at the Juan Diego Center on Fort Street.

1. To be on team means you have been on the retreat before.
2. Just e-mail me and I will pass your request on to the appropriate site.

We will be planning our Chicago Focus LIFE week-end for September.

My e-mail = jphelps@lifedirections.org

We do our best and God does the rest! Amazing to watch it all work together for the good of all.

Teachers are Key to Life Directions

We want to thank all the teachers with whom we work.

In May of each year we have our Awards' Ceremonies to recognize the achievements of the students who have motivated each other during the year.

We thank the teachers who do the selection of the young people. We are encouraged to facilitate young people challenging each other to make school work for them. We are grateful for working with their families in the neighborhoods.

The teachers show their gratitude to us as we add value to what they do in the classroom. We want to tell the teachers that we are grateful for what they do! The teachers with whom we work want to challenge the young people to be ready for college and a career. They want the young people to have a future for themselves and their children.

If you get a chance to thank a teacher, do it. It is long overdo for so many who have given so much. It is sad to see the "cuts". But it is good to know that no one can cut out what a teacher has put into the minds and hearts of their students.

Feel free to call us, if you're in town and want to come to our Awards' Ceremonies. In Detroit we are at Western International High School on May 17 in the afternoon. In Chicago we are at Farragut Career High School on May 31 in the morning. For information call (313.420.0310 - Detroit) & (773.265.5806 - Chicago).