MESSENGERS OF HOPE

Discover Your Neighbor (DYN) offers unique materials and lessons to inspire young people to engage on issues like Go Forth so that they can live out their faith as agents of love and service.

Student Art Honoring Mary

2024 Maryknoll Student Essay Contest

Designed specifically for globally-minded educators who want to guide their students toward making a difference in their world!

2025 Lesson Plan

(Volume 8, No.4)

Go Forth

Messengers Of Hope

Objective

As part of the Easter Season and through Pentecost…

Step 1: Pray

The Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-12 and Luke 6:20-26…

Step 2: Personal Connections

My name is Emmanuel Boniface, I am 29 years…

Go Forth

Messengers Of Hope

Objective: As part of the Easter Season and through Pentecost, students will EXPLORE how they can become pilgrims or messengers of hope during this Jubilee Year of Hope. 

The students will DEMONSTRATE an understanding of the “Paths of Mission” by listing practical ways that they can carry out the paths in their own lives.

Using the USCCB video, the students and their families will DISCUSS and COMMIT to putting love into action in their daily lives.

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 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?

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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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Messengers 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.