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Franciscan LEAD

Summer 2025
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Leadership, Evangelization, and Discipleship

Franciscan LEAD is a five-day, Christ-centered, sacrament-soaked, prayer fueled immersion in Catholic teachings on leadership, evangelization, and discipleship inspired by the life and witness of St. Francis of Assisi. Our leadership philosophy is based on the foundation that youth leadership flows from a personal relationship with Christ. Therefore, we first give teens the tools to grow closer in their relationship with Jesus and then give them the essentials for servant leadership and evangelization.

“I went into the LEAD week totally nervous and having a few problems with my faith, and came out feeling strong and confident in my faith as a soldier of God. Throughout the week all my fears about who I was and what I had to do vanished. I found confidence and strength in God and slowly, through the week, realized that God has it all under control and that he loved me for who I was.”

To foster discipleship, teens will:

  • Learn more about prayer and spend time in personal prayer every day

  • Encounter Jesus Christ in daily Mass, Eucharistic Adoration and Confession

  • Learn more about the persons of the Trinity and the Blessed Mother and grow in deeper relationship with them


To equip them for leadership and evangelization, teens will:

  • Learn about service and humility as the heart of leadership

  • Share what God has done in their lives with their peers

  • Grow in awareness of the cultural challenges that contradict our faith and morals


Franciscan LEAD is held the week before a Steubenville Youth Conference, beginning Monday and ending Friday afternoon when the participant will join his/her group for the weekend youth conference.

Apply for Franciscan LEAD!

For the first time since 2019 Franciscan LEAD is BACK in Halifax before the Steubenville Atlantic Conference. Learn more and apply Below

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