A Journey of Hope
Discover Your Neighbor (DYN) offers unique materials and lessons to inspire young people to engage on issues like Migation 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!
2025 Lesson Plan
(Volume 9, No.1)
Migration
A Journey of Hope
Objective
Students will CREATE and then PERFORM modern day stories…
Step 1: Pray
Good and gracious God, we thank you for the gift of…
Step 2: Personal Connections
I was fortunate to be born in a country known…
Migration
A Journey of Hope
Objective: Students will CREATE and then PERFORM modern day stories of migration based on the flight of Joseph, Mary and Jesus to Egypt.
They will ANALYZE one migrant story and APPLY it in their own lives.
They will DISCERN how scripture and Catholic teaching calls us to treat migrants.
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
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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 OF 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?
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MIGRATION
ADVENT
Journey with migrants throughout our faith tradition and explore our call to love all people in light of global migration.
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Global Solidarity
LENT
Live a faith that values all people by discovering and responding to global needs as Jesus would.
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GO FORTH
EASTER / PENTECOST
Answer the call to encounter the
world as a living sign of God’s love.
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CARE OF CREATION
MIGRATION
Global Solidarity
GO FORTH
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Migration
A Journey of Hope
Get started today with our course program for the 2025/26 school year to foster a mission-centered perspective in youth, and guide your students toward making a difference in their world.