REDLANDS—Could you be a leader among the youth at your parish?

 Attendees of the annual Young Catholics Actively Serving Today (YCAST) Training grappled with that fundamental question the week of July 8-12 at the University of Redlands.

TEMECULA—On March 18, 23 members of the founding class at Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac Catholic High School set out on a two-week pilgrimage tracing the steps of their foundress, Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac. 

 When Diane Arias arrived as the eighth grade teacher at Indio’s Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in 1989, the campus was a converted motel augmented by a series of portable trailers and modular buildings.

PALM DESERT—Sacred Heart School in Palm Desert is now the home of a newly certified butterfly garden. 

 This month Diocesan Young Adult Programs Coordinator Brenda Noriega will once again find herself in the upper echelons of the Church when she travels to Rome as one of two U.S. representatives at an international forum on youth and young adults.

PALM SPRINGS—St. Theresa School in Palm Springs is reflecting with gratitude on Principal Mike Keno’s six years of leadership as he retires at the conclusion of this school year.