Everything is Connected
Discover Your Neighbor (DYN) offers unique materials and lessons to inspire young people to engage on issues like Care for Creation so that they can live out their faith as agents of love and service.
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Designed specifically for globally-minded educators who want to guide their students toward making a difference in their world!
2022 Lesson Plan
(Volume 6, No. 1)
CARE FOR CREATION
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED
Objective
Students will LEARN from scripture and church teaching about the connectedness of all of creation…
Step 1: Pray
God of Heaven and Earth
Help me to slow down
and listen to all living things…
Step 2: Personal Connections
Everything is connected,” explains Maryknoll Lay Missioner Peg Vámosy…
CARE FOR CREATION
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED
In this issue young people will LEARN from scripture and church teaching about the connectedness of all of creation.
They will IDENTIFY ways that people are working together to fight climate change in El Salvador.
They will CREATE videos detailing the impact of climate change and actions they can take to make a difference.
Classroom Activities
Prayer & Reflection
Make Personal Connections
Faith Perspectives
Neighbor Focus
Exploring Scripture & Traditions
Lessons on How To Take Action
An interactive education program for teachers sponsored by the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
LEARN ABOUT OUR LESSON TOPICS
DYN lesson plans use global issues to examine those on the margins of society, explores how we think and feel, and guides how youth can act to share God’s love with those in need.
CARE FOR CREATION
FALL / ORDINARY TIME
Pope Francis challenges us to change the “throwaway culture” we live in – what are we called to do in response to the Pope’s challenge?
LEARN ABOUT THIS GUIDE
WATCH THE VIDEO
MIGRATION
ADVENT
Journey with migrants throughout our faith tradition and explore our call to love all people in light of global migration.
LEARN ABOUT THIS GUIDE
WATCH THE VIDEO
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
LENT
Live a faith that values all people by discovering and responding to global needs as Jesus would.
LEARN ABOUT THIS GUIDE
WATCH THE VIDEO
GO FORTH
EASTER / PENTECOST
Answer the call to encounter the
world as a living sign of God’s love.
LEARN ABOUT THIS GUIDE
WATCH THE VIDEO
CARE FOR CREATION
MIGRATION
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
GO FORTH
SHARE US ON
CARE FOR CREATION
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED
Get started today with our course program for the 2021/22 school year to foster a mission-centered perspective in youth, and guide your students toward making a difference in their world.