St. John Vianney CYO Registration Still Open!

If you missed regstration on Saturday, May 22nd you still have a chance to register for Fall activities:

St. John Vianney CYO Fall Sports Signups

Coaches Clinic Reimbursement

If you have attended the CYO Coaches Clinic during this past school year, and would like to be reimbursed for the fee that you paid to attend, we will be able to help.

Please provide us with a copy of the certificate of attendance, along with instructions for to whom to make the check payable, along with the address that you would like the check to be mailed. Put in an envelope marked CYO Coaches Clinic Reimbursement, and drop off at the rectory.

We appreciate that you took the time to attend this event; our kids deserve good coaches.

2010 Viking Basketball Camp

The 2010 Viking Basketball Camp for boys Entering grades 5-9 in the Fall of 2010 will be held June 28-July 1. See below for information and registration forms.

• Information and Registration (PDF file)
• Information and Registration (Microsoft Word file)

Protecting God's Children Seminars

Please use the following link and visit this site to for the calendar showing upcoming PGC seminars.

• Protecting God's Children Seminars (web page)

St. John Vianney CYO Leadership

Numerous volunteers donate their time and talent to help make the CYO program successful and rewarding for the youth of the parish. To contact any member of the CYO organization, click on their e-mail link listed in the tables below.

Name	Title/Position	Phone	E-Mail
Rev. Brian Miller	Chairman & Spiritual Advisor	610-433-6461	—
Tom Dano	President	610-554-7852	TDano@ptd.net
Derrick Shoemaker	Vice President	610-756-6776	dmshoe67@ptd.net
John Craig	Secretary	610-336-0635	johnc@prarfg.com
Carol Lynch	Treasurer	610-366-2188	lynch004@verizon.net
Greg Johnson	Athletic Director	610-439-2806	gjohnson@luptons.com
Juan Ganchoso	Social Director	610-351-9220	ganchoso@rcn.com
Joe Brown	District Rep	610-703-3033	brownjbb@rcn.com
John Snyder	Parish Representative	610-435-994	jamssny2000@aol.com
Tim Gauker	Parish Representative	610-509-0483	tims2454@rcn.com
Steve Wylie	Parish Representative	—	stvn_wylie@yahoo.com

Sports as an Image of the Christian Life

“Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run so as to win. Every athlete exercises discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one. Thus I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing. No, I drive my body and train it, for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.”
I Cor 9:24-27

Some Dos and Don'ts For Parents

Some simple advice for making every CYO sport a pleasing and productive activity for all.

	Cheer for your team. Show interest, enthusiasm, and support for your child. Be in control of your emotions. Help when asked by coaches or officials. Thank the coaches, officials, and other volunteers who conducted the event.
	Leave the spectator area during competitions to enter the field of play. Advise the coach on how to coach. Try to coach your child during the contest. Make derogatory comments to players, parents, coaches, or officials of either team. Drink alcohol at contests or come to watch contests intoxicated.

Jubilee of Sports People

Playing sports has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity. Precisely for this reason, in recent years it has continued to grow even more as one of the characteristic phenomena of the modern era, almost a "sign of the times" capable of interpreting humanity's new needs and new expectations. Sports have spread to every corner of the world, transcending differences between cultures and nations.

Because of the global dimensions this activity has assumed, those involved in sports throughout the world have a great responsibility. They are called to make sports an opportunity for meeting and dialogue, over and above every barrier of language, race or culture. Sports, in fact, can make an effective contribution to peaceful understanding between peoples and to establishing the new civilization of love.

— Jubilee of Sports People, Homily of Pope John Paul II, October 29, 2000