TAPTsters: Plan to arrive at Camp Lawrence (directions) on Friday, April 1st at 6:00 pm. The check-in process- not the retreat- starts at 6:00, so there is no need to arrive early. To ensure the TAPT team has enough time to prepare, please arrive no earlier than 6:00. Follow directions for check in. Please eat dinner before you arrive. The retreat will conclude at appr. 3:30 pm on Sunday April 3rd.
The TAPT Closing Mass, also known as the “Reunion Mass,” is open to guests, including family members and former TAPTsters. Mass will begin appr. 2:00 on Sunday, but if guests plan to join us, please arrive early to ensure seating. If you are attending from outside the diocese, please note that Camp Lawrence is on Central Time.
The TAPT weekend is a relational journey, and includes carefully-developed progressions that build on one experience after the next. To ensure that TAPTsters get the most out of the retreat, partial attendance is not allowed.
- Parents, an experienced health professional will be available on the retreat. If you wish for your child’s medications to be distributed by retreat leaders, please tell us when you check your child in on Friday night. Otherwise, the Diocese of Gary will not be held responsible for the distribution of medications.
- Cost: $90, includes lodging, meals, materials, t-shirt, and other retreat stuff.
- Teens may only attend a TAPT once. Previous TAPTsters may apply for a position on the leadership team. The application period for the upcoming TAPT retreat is January-mid February.
- FORMER TAPTSTERS, PARENTS, YOUTH LEADERS: Join us for the closing mass, “Reunion Mass!”
Parish leaders: Please consider using these bulletin/email announcement during weekends through March 6 to assist you in recruiting teens. You may also copy/paste them into emails!
(Full Version) High school teens are invited to attend Teens Are Praying Together (“TAPT”), a Diocesan Catholic weekend retreat, held April 1-3 at Camp Lawrence, north of Valparaiso. Through talks, guided discussions, prayer, recreation, Reconciliation, and Eucharist, TAPT is a call to discipleship, bringing teens into a more intimate encounter with the Incarnate Jesus Christ. Cost: $90. Deadline: March 18. For complete details, visit https://www.garyoyya.org/tapt, facebook.com/garytapt, or contact the TAPT Retreat Board at [email protected]. We are using an online portal to gather registrations. Please visit: https://www.cognitoforms.com/GaryTAPT/TAPTRetreatRegistrationForm The registration will be submitted once you finish filling out the form.
(Shorter Version) The diocesan TAPT retreat returns to Camp Lawrence April 1-3. TAPT is a dynamic, life-changing spiritual retreat for high school teens sponsored by the Diocese of Gary Office for Youth. Cost: $90. Deadline: March 18. For complete details, visit https://www.garyoyya.org/tapt or facebook.com/garytapt.
(Spanish) Los adolescentes de secundaria están invitados a asistir a Teens Are Praying Together (“TAPT”), un retiro católico diocesano de fin de semana, que se lleva a cabo del 1 al 3 de abril en Camp Lawrence, al norte de Valparaíso. A través de charlas, discusiones guiadas, oración, recreación, reconciliación y eucaristía, TAPT es un llamado al discipulado, llevando a los adolescentes a un encuentro más íntimo con Jesucristo Encarnado. Costo: $ 90. Fecha límite: 18 de marzo. Para obtener detalles completos, visite https://www.garyoyya.org/tapt, facebook.com/garytapt, o comuníquese con la Junta de Retiro de TAPT en [email protected]. Estamos utilizando un portal en línea para recopilar registros. Visite: https://www.cognitoforms.com/GaryTAPT/TAPTRetreatRegistrationForm El registro se enviará una vez que termine de completar el formulario. (El retiro es en ingles.)