Name: Anson Groves
Position: Director of Religious Education & Youth Ministry
Parish: Holy Spirit
Office Phone: (703) 425-8778
Website: www.holyspiritchurch.us/youth
Email: [email protected]
History/Resume
In current position since: 2023
Active in Youth Ministry since: 2006
Youth Ministry program includes: Sunday Night High School Youth Group, Friday Middle School Youth Nights, Fiat High School Girls Small Group, Band of Brothers High School Boys Small Group, Cor Unum Middle School Small Groups, Monthly 8th Grade Lunches, Militia Immaculata Prayer Group, WorkCamp, High School Winter Retreat, Boy/Cub Scouts, CYO Sports
Favorite Food(s): Latin American, Mexican, Ethiopian, West Indian, New York pizza
Favorite Band: Shuffle setting
Favorite Pastime: Reading, traveling, serving
Favorite Saint: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Favorite Scripture: "I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you." (John 15:15)
Favorite Book: The Philokalia
About Me: I have been working in parishes of this diocese since 2006. If there is any secret to doing this work it's this: "I know my own and my own know me" (John 10:14). To work with youth, children, and families is to get to know them and allow them to know me. To form friendships and learn to love who they are as they learn about me. Ministry is relational because Christianity is relational.
