Author Archives: Jilina Damin

About two weeks ago all of the Area Contacts for Life Teen came to Covecrest for their annual retreat. I was excited for the weekend because we were going to be eating really good food, sleep in, and my youth minister was coming, triple bonus. I was on breakfast duty one day during the week and was in the kitchen helping Bridget get ready when a youth minister named Richard from Arizona walked in and started talking with me and one of the other missionaries. We were joking around and talking as

 All of the missionaries at Covecrest were blessed with the opportunity to go to Haiti. We spent the week about 60 miles southwest of Port Au Prince at an orphanage run by a Catholic organization called Moving with the Spirit. One of the biggest blessings from the trip was being able to spend Palm Sunday in Haiti. Growing up I never really celebrated Palm Sunday or Holy week with my family. Holy week always fell over spring break so every year my family would go to Florida for vacation. In my mind

It’s funny how much your life can change in a year, a month, a week, or even a day. If you told me a year ago that I’d be a missionary this year I probably would’ve laughed in your face. I knew I wanted to eventually go into missions but I was going to do it on my own time and in my own way. I wanted to go to school and get a college degree first. I wanted to join the military and be a helicopter pilot. I wanted to get a double major in theology and history and minor in philosophy, and I wanted

This past Monday, the Life Teen Covecrest and Atlanta communities came together for a day of prayer to discern the Lord’s will for the future of the three Life Teen mission bases.  We spent about eight hours in prayer, stopping only to eat lunch and take pictures for our blogs. We started the day off in St. Stephens’s chapel doing morning prayer, followed by an intercessory rosary for the Covecrest mission base. After each decade we would sit in silence and everyone would share what the Lord

Missionary blogs are supposed to be a place where the missionaries can share with everyone what’s going on in their lives and how the Lord is moving in their hearts. Well, a random fun fact about me is that I can only do so much sharing about the seriousness of my heart before my heart gets shared out. So I’ve decided that I’m going to take it down a notch and write a blog every four to five weeks about all the cool, fun things Life Teen Missionaries like to do. So here’s my first blog about