Season's Greetings from Thieu & Nghia!

On December 21st, Thieu and Nghia had an amazing Christmas party! We had the best time ever eating delicious food, building gingerbread houses, and playing super fun Christmas games. Thank you to all who came to the Christmas party, we wouldn't have had as much fun as we did if it wasn't for you guys!

When we first arrived, we were greeted by lovely table decorations and a side table of scrumptious L&L food, chips, and drinks! While we were all sitting down and eating, we were warmly comforted by Christmas classic music, especially from Michael Buble! 

After enjoying some delicious food, it was time to get the creative juices flowing by decorating gingerbread houses! Everyone paired up and made their own small gingerbread cottage adorably decorated with candy and frosting. After everyone finished up we all gathered at the table and admired our TNF Christmas village!

After gingerbread houses we enjoyed multiple Christmas games such as guessing carols, spinning till we got dizzy with a Christmas ornament conveyor belts around our waists, or even sliding cookies down from our foreheads to our mouths! The auditorium was filled with intense laughter and loud singing that truly made our party so much more livelier. This was truly special because we were able to join together as a family whether we were Thieu or Nghia. Age truly does not matter when it comes to having fun and sharing each others company in the Christmas spirit. Thank you everyone who helped make this Monday unforgettable and this was surely the first time we have had a Monday we actually looked forward to! All this love and laughter made us truly ready for the coming of Jesus! See you all at the Christmas Eve mass where our children will be participating in the Christmas play.

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Santa's Workshop 2015

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas from TNF Torrance! Santa's workshop was super busy with all our elves playing games and winning tons of candy. Thanks to our Nghia for making this past Saturday an amazing experience for all of our kids.

We had multiple Christmas themed booths that Nghia have been preparing weeks beforehand, working in teams to create the perfect booth for our TNF kids. On Saturday, December 19th 2015 our Nghia prepared booths in anticipation for the rush of kids running into the hall! We had booths from guessing special items in Christmas stockings to booths where we had to blow through a straw in a Christmas themed obstacle course! Each player received a number of tickets in order to turn in to play a game! We also provided a crafty booth for children who wanted to relax and explore their creative side by decorating ornaments our booth called "Crafts at the North Pole."

While everyone was having the time of their lives, many children ran out of tickets. Chi Britnee came to the rescue and provided more tickets with first answering TNF questions about Mary and the three children. After a good run of playing games we all came out for lunch and went to class where many enjoyed Christmas parties with their teachers and classmates.

Thank you to all who came out this past Saturday and everyone who contributed to a great "Christmas-y" Saturday for out TNF kids! I could see the smiles from everyone and the warmth of love in the air with everyone laughing and scoring some candy with all our Christmas booths. This Saturday seemed especially rewarding to everyone who ran the booths who were able to not only reward candy to children,  but reward a smile to all our kids. This Saturday was not only fun and games, but a time to express our love each other in preparation for the coming of Jesus. Being in a positive mindset will set our hearts ready to have the true Christmas spirit!


To take a more in depth look at our fun Christmas booths, check out our vlog!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Khoa Tinh Huan 2015

Welcome back everyone! For those of you who didn't know, this past weekend Nghia and HT's attended Khoa Tinh Huan. This is a special spiritual retreat for our older TNF members to be recharged spiritually and for some to move onto a new spiritual chapter as Du Truong and Huynh Truong. Thank you to all who answered God's calling by coming this past weekend to learn more about what we stand for as witnesses of Fatima. And we can't forget all of those who came out to support all of us and prepared such delicious meals that made this weekend even more special!

Friday afternoon everyone came out packed and ready to head out to the road for Khoa Tinh Huan! After we prepared our rooms, we were all pleasantly surprised by the beautiful bathrooms and warm welcome from Cha! After we settled in, we started off the retreat to a welcoming slideshow, ice breakers to reunite with our other TNF friends, and got into inspiring lecture with Chi Brenda and Anh Thuan to further explore what exactly TNF means to each of us.

Saturday surely a jam packed day! After breakfast and fun dance exercises with Anh Long, we dove into many inspiring lectures such as understanding more about the beauty and honor of praying the Rosary or learning more about Mary our mother.Near the end of the night we all dressed up for our night formal while enjoying  hilarious skits to our theme "witnesses of Fatima". Each group portrayed their interpretations of why it is important to be a witness of Fatima. Whether it was Yu-Gi-Oh references or heart warming acting, we all enjoyed laughing till our stomachs hurt and smiling till our cheeks were sore. We ended the night with Doan reflections where we had special time to get personal,express our feelings with one another of our spiritual journeys, and announcing our new DT's and HT's. This special night being able to sit all together as Torrance felt absolutely amazing and revitalized each and every one of us to realize the amount of love that is in Doan Torrance.

Sadly the last day of KTH crept on us fast, but Sunday was a unforgettable day. The morning kicked off with a dance exercise to "Hotline Bling" with Anh Thuan and Chi Diana after Dang Ngay to get out blood flowing for the rest of the day. After that, each of us had a chance to get more personal with each other and especially our HT's to understand the purpose, intention, and calling to becoming a youth leader. With our Q&A panel, Nghia had the opportunity to express their concerns and curiosity to the path of becoming a future HT. We ended the day with a special mass to welcome our new Huynh Truongs. Saying our goodbyes to our other TNF friends made us even more excited to reach the next time we would be able to to see them again.

This weekend will be something we will all never forget. We have gained so much knowledge about being a witness of Fatima and most importantly learned more about ourselves and our commitment to devoting our time and love to TNF. Mother Mary of God please look over us and guide us closer to God and please guide our new youth leaders.

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Happy Halloween from TNF Torrance

Boo! On October 31st 2015, the TNF family gathered together for a fabulous day of spooky games with the coolest costumes from "kitchen stoves" to "jellyfish" costumes. Seeing the amount of spirit and creativity shown from everyone past Saturday proves of how great our team is!

At the start of sinh hoat, we began learning a special Halloween dance to the song "Monster Mash." After a while of grooving in our costumes with the "Transylvania twist" and the "woof howling" moves, we played a whole variety of games like "Dinh Chum" and "Gio Thoi." All of those who were the fabulous losers that were caught during the game of "Gio Thoi" had to perform the Monster Mash in front of everyone which was more a treat rather than a trick.

Before lunch we began our annual costume contest hosted by Anh Thuan. We cheered aloud together for the categories of "scariest", "prettiest", and "most creative." We had an amazing turnout for our creative category with people dressed as slice of cake, Baymax, and sushi! Thanks to everyone who participated in making this Halloween very special and fun. Until next year I hope to see much more costumes and bigger spirit. Until next time! Only 364 days to go as Chi Brenda said.

At the end of the night we also watched our fellow girls perform a beautiful dance for our mother Mary because October was the month of the Holy Rosary. May Mary continue to bless us with many more years of great fun and hard work!

Check out our vlog below to join in on the spooktacular fun!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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The Ping to My Pong

What an awesome Saturday we had this past weekend! Although this Saturday was surely tiring, we all had a lot of fun and we wouldn't have it any other way. On Saturday we started early in the morning to head off to San Gabriel for TBDT and by the day we had an exciting sinh hoat!

On October 3rd, we arrived at San Gabriel fairly early, so we all took this opportunity to help set up chairs and hang out with ice breakers before preparing to pray the Rosary. After praying the Rosary to the Joyful mysteries we dove into activities. This time we played "minute to win it" themed games with ping pong balls and cups! We played all sorts of games such as shaking ping pong balls out of tissue boxes tied to our waists against other đoàns. Watching everyone laughing hysterically, truly showed how close of a family we are!

Enjoying ourselves and having our mouths sore from smiling so much, truly showed the power of TNF and the love that comes with coming to TBDT. With every month we are able to bond and spend time with one another sharing love for Mary and for one another!

Once we headed back home to Torrance we began our Ngành ceremony! This meant each member that was moving up to a new ngành whether it would be Au, Thieu or Nghia would receive a new cap hieu. This was extra special because every member had the opportunity to move forward onto a new chapter of new duties to either sacrificing, praying, or devoting to the Immaculate Heart.

This past Saturday was truly special for each and every one of us to either move onto a new chapter or witness our close friends crossing a special spiritual milestone.

Check out our vlog below for a cool recap!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Dream Team is Back Together

Welcome back everyone! September 12th marked our first day of an exciting new school year! We hope you all enjoyed your first day and we can not wait to spend a exciting filled year with each and every one of you.

On this special day we greeted all our old and new members with a cool welcome with snow cones and cotton candy. With the help of many of our members, everyone was delighted with refreshing treats for the crazy heat! Afterwards we gathered together in the hall where we reunited with one another's company. Before Deacon Long began his welcome back session, we all introduced our HT's and DT's to our new members. We started off finding meaning through our names, for example Deacon Long's name "Long" means dragon. Furthermore, Deacon Long had us figure that through our meanings of our names, we must think about the idea of how people view us. Deacon Long helped us recognize that we are all followers of Jesus and to keep in mind through our actions we must live the way we do as children of God.

After a motivating session with our Deacon Long, we had the rest of the day to relax, catch up, and drinks tons of water to keep up with the heat.

We are all so happy to have been able to spend this day with each and every one of you and seeing all the new faces are especially inspiring to keep going as TNF. Here's to new beginnings and great memories to be made! The dream team is finally back together woohoo!



The vlogs are back! Come join in on the fun and TNF love below:

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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We Are the Future of the Church

Hello all! We hope you guys have been enjoying your summer break so far, but with summer ending comes a fresh school year coming our way! Nghia and HT's have become spiritually revitalized and ready to begin the new school year and we can not wait to be rejoined with our other friends this coming September.


This past Saturday on August 29th, Nghia and HT's began our annual One Day Leadership Retreat hosted by Deacon Long. With the help of Deacon Long, we were lucky enough to learn from so many inspirational speakers and at the same time have wonderful snack breaks thanks to Deaconess Loan!

Around 9 a.m. Deacon Long began his first activity where every one of us had to write characteristics we liked about one another and placed them into envelopes with our candid pictures. Afterwards Deacon Long had us do mini skits according to bible verses to exemplify God's creations within seven days. Many groups were hilariously creative in creating their own interpretations of God's creation. After a interesting lecture about God and we settled down and learned a golden message from Deacon Long. We recognized that God always and will forever loving and that is never changing. With God, there is no time, but everlasting love eternal happiness.

With the day off to a great start, we were even more eager to learn from Linda! Linda taught us valuable lessons about working with one another more importantly, her motto PLAG.
Above all we learned that with creating a great community comes the effort and contribution of everyone no matter how small creates a driving force to serve God!

To finish off our round of speakers, we were delighted to meet So who helped all of us recognize to open our eyes for God's calling for vocation. We played multiple games from "rock, paper, scissors" the fancy style where we were either a Christian, adult, child, or egg. From then on, So advised us that within each of those stages are vocations such as serving one's vocation as a child or even a husband for example. Other games we played included our members playing as a  rescuer, robber, or a cop. With this game we learned the importance of hearing God's calling. Lastly, we learned most of all to have the right intention for God's calling for our own vocations no matter what is happening, certain coming of events might be opportunities sent from God.

To end our day, we played some intense but hilarious games to enjoy each others company before we headed off to mass. We hope you all feel spiritually revitalized for the upcoming school year and may you all take great confidence to move forward as future leaders of the church. We all play an important role in the "body" of our youth group and with each of us as the "organs," we build an amazing foundation to do great things for God. We are the future of the church! May Mary our mother guide us to an upcoming school year filled with love and success!




















Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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TNF Torrance celebrates our 25th Anniversary!

June 6th marked our last day of the TNF school year of 2014-2015! This day was jam packed with so many festivities to celebrate TNF reaching such a great milestone of our 25th year of spreading love about Mary and becoming a prosperous family we are today.

We began with TBDT in the early morning and were delighted to see many more faces from other Doans. After collecting our star stickers for our "Passports to God," we had mass with Cha Long. After mass we prayed the Rosary and this time we dedicated our meditation after to free our minds and think recollect and unplug from our busy past week. We began games such as the ultimate tournament of "rock, paper, scissors" and a fun game of poison ball. Before lunch, we sat around one another and passed around a beach ball covered in multiple questions such as "to get to know each other better. Through this game we were able to learn more about each others interests and become a lot closer. After lunch, we gave our special goodbyes and began to set up our booths for tro  choi lon.

This special theme if tro choi lon was in spirit of the upcoming summer break where we had booths led by HT's and Nghia as our end of the year "Summer festival." Our booths were adorned with colorful signs as many children had the luxury to spend time within each of these booths. For the "Trivia Treats" booth our members had to answer trivia question to test their knowledge they learned throughout the year in order to win a snow cone or cotton candy! In the booth "What's in season?" players had to guess what flavor a certain juice was in order to gain the prize of candy. The next booth tested the player's memorization skills where in "Summer memories," children had to try to memorize a photo for a short amount of time before drawing out the most they could remember.   "Lets get crafty" booth was a fun way in order for members to create leis out of boba straws, string, and colorful flower paper. "The ping to my pong" was an intense booth in order for players to shoot water through water guns to knock off ping pong balls off of water bottles. Last, but not the least in our  "Hula Hoop contest" players had to compete to hula hoop the longest to win candy.

After a long day of joyous fun, we ended the night with a grand performances after mass. We performed "Dancing through the Decades" where we danced in the theme of era between 1900's and till present day. Our dancers looked absolutely wonderful dressed in their costumes to match the era and watching across the sea of smiles, truly showed how much of a joy it is to dance with one another. Thank you all who came out to devote your time to a memorable day.

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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TBDT At El Monte

This month we arrived ready and excited to rush over to this month's hosts for TBDT, El Monte! When we arrived we were greeted with joyous smiles. Anh Thuan gave an inspiring speech about our past "Feed the Homeless" event in order to give a perspective about our experiences of that special event and to encourage many other doans to join us next time to spread more love to the less fortunate. Afterwards, we prayed the Rosary and went into activities!

Anh Martin led the games such as "Monkey in the Middle 2.0" We enjoyed ourselves as we spread out into a circle and passed around multiple balls without dropping it hastily without having to switch out with the "monkeys" in the middle. After a snack break, we split off into groups and introduced ourselves to other TNF members to create new friendships and be ready for some cool team games.
We were faced with the challenge of flipping over a towel while each group stands on the towel without stepping on the outside. This was difficult, but was nonetheless extremely fun. After countless activities, we finally relaxed with some good food. El Monte served amazing food along with thai tea boba which was definitely much needed after a great time of games.

Big thanks for Doan El Monte for having us and we hope you all enjoyed yourselves and made some awesome friendships within our TNF family. Until the next TBDT!

Spread some El Monte love by watching our vlog!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Feed The Homeless

Feed the Homeless is a day that provides our TNF members an opportunity to give back to those in need and spread God's love to the less fortunate. This year we plan to do much more Feed the Homeless events in order for us to visit the less fortunate at Skid Row. In preparation to visiting the homeless, all nganh help pack 250-300 lunches of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, cookies, and water. We package all these goodies in beautifully decorated brown paper bags with inspiring words to bring hope and love to whoever receives these gifts.

On April 18th, all ngành organized in assembly lines to efficiently pack lunches. Ngành Au decorated paper bags, nganh Thieu prepared peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and nghia were leaders of each table to carry the flow of the assembly line to run smoothly. As we prepared these lunches, we kept in mind the amount of people who were going to be touched by God's love through our packed lunches. With hard work and great enthusiasm to give back, we are serving not only the less fortunate but we are serving God.

The next morning on April 19th we arrived early in the morning and met with Deacon Long and arrived at Skid Row to begin reaching out to those in need of lunches. As we walked around we observed around us the everyday lives the homeless go through everyday. We humbled ourselves and began to find great gratitude in our hearts that we are fortunate to be live under a roof and have the basic necessities we usually take for granted. We thank all you guys who took your time to come out and contribute to the community as God's image to the less fortunate. We hope you all continue to remember the blessings God has given us and to pray for those who are in need.

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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TBDT At Claremont

On March 4th, TNF Torrance arrived at Claremont ready and pumped to collect more stickers for our "Passports to God" and to unite with the rest of our TNF family. After added another star to our passports, we prayed the Rosary with the Sorrowful mystery in spirit of Easter season. We prayed and looked back on the stages of Jesus' hardships and to dedicate ourselves to Mother Mary as well for the amount of suffering she went through seeing her only son die on the cross.

After the Rosary we began fun activities and some of which were Easter themed!  We organized ourselves into teams and began our first game of "Stations of the Cross." In this fun activity, each of us had to run to a number corresponding to the one of the stages of Jesus' journey of carrying the cross. Afterwards, we began a Easter themed crossword puzzle. We leaped onto each other's back "piggyback" style to rush over and find the colored eggs corresponding to the answers. The first team to collect all the correct eggs won. Once we did that, we went back into the room to play more games. There were various activities that were so fun and we hope you all enjoyed yourselves as well. Thank so much to Doan Claremont for having us and we will see you all very soon at our next TBDT!



Give Claremont some love by checking out our vlog below:

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Torrance Gets Crafty

Today all ngành enjoyed a relaxing day off from học hỏi to sit back with arts and crafts! This day was also special because our older TNF members celebrated Palm Sunday of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and the Jesus' washing of the feet with his fellow disciples.

On this exciting day, all ngành had the luxury of choosing between either origami, friendship bracelets, or coloring pages workshops. While everyone was creating their own masterpieces, we also played a special TNF slideshow to look back on all our past memories we have shared together over the years. This was a wonderful experience to give all of our TNF members a day to sit back and get cracking with crafts and spend a good time in each other's company.

At the end of the day, Lop Thank Kinh 2 celebrated Jesus' washing of the feet. Chi Brenda guided us as we washed each others feet to act as one of Jesus' disciples to humble ourselves and be the person to choose to wash another person's feet and as well accept the washing of our own feet. God calls out to us everyday to accept to become one of his servants to serve those everyone around us and to sacrifice and spread love to everyone around us as Jesus did when he died on the cross for us. We hope you all found this experience eye opening and to encourage you to continue to humble ourselves to serve those around us as Jesus did.



Enjoy this crafty day with us by checking out our vlog below!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Accepting the Call to Serve

          Our chapter of Thiếu Nhi Fatima located in Torrance, California was given the name "Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin" 25 years ago.  Today we celebrate the feast day of "Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin" which means "The Annunciation", when Angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary to bring her the good news that she would be the Mother of God.  The importance of this day isn't just how Mary was chosen to be bear the only Son of God but that she freely chose to accept her Divine Maternity.  As we know, God loves us so much He has given us free will to choose right even if we fail to do so.  The reason why we glorify is because Mary is our perfect example of how to be children of God.  By saying yes, she put all her trust in God to serve Him despite the hardships she knew she would have to overcome.  We pray that in our lives we can be like Mary and have the courage to accept God's calling. Ave Maria, please continue to guide us to be humble servants of God just like you.

          On Saturday March 21, TNF Torrance celebrated this special milestone with a fun filled day of trò chơi lớn games and a night of delicious phở, entertainment, and a beautiful symbolic cake. In preparation for the big day, many of our TNF members contributed in wrapping utensils, making decorations, singing for choir practice, and planning games.  We would like to thank everyone who has supported us through praying, teaching, and encouraging us to continue our calling as children of Fatima.  Please keep us in your prayers so that we can continue to achieve many more milestones in the future. 

        

The blue color of the cake represents the blue scarves of the members of our organization.  Around the cake, there are brown and white ribbons which are inspired by the color of the scarves our youth leaders and clergy. This symbolizes how they tie together our youth group by shaping the spiritual lives of our younger members.  On the cake, there are exactly ten white roses which is a decade of the "Hail Mary" prayers to express our offerings to Mary.

"Ave Maria, gratia plena, dominus tecum 

Amen"

Chị Brenda Nguyễn

Nghĩa Trưởng

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima 
Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Special Day of Học Hỏi & Đoàn Games (3/14/15)

On March 14th we had a special day filled with two hours of học hỏi and đoàn games! Today we also had no class in which all ngành had the opportunity to study hard and as well play hard.

For two hours all three ngành reviewed over the material they have been learning since the beginning of the school year in preparation for tro chơi lớn upcoming this Saturday. In one of the stations for tro chơi lớn, we will be having a jeopardy game in which all ngành will be tested for their knowledge from the past several months. After reviewing, we all had a exciting time of free play and relaxation before preparing for lunch. After eating delicious ham sandwiches, all ngành
had the option to choose between playing either dodge ball, kickball, or free play.

This day was very well spent in which everyone had the opportunity to play freely after studying rigorously.We would like to give a huge thumbs up to all of our members who continue to keep to learning and putting in the effort to learn about our Lady of Fatima and the importance behind of Thiếu Nhi Fatima. Keep up the good work everyone!

Join in on the fun by watching our vlog below!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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LA Youth Day #TalkJesusWithMe - (3/12/15)

Every year Deacon Long and Deaconess Loan encourage our older TNF members to enjoy and take a break out of our week to take time to engage in a spiritual filled day among thousands of teens. Youth Day is special event that is held on the Thursday of Religious Education Congress weekend. This is the day for the youth of all sorts of backgrounds from throughout the archdiocese to participate in a Rally, Liturgy, and Workshops focused just for the youth. This year's theme was "Talk Jesus With Me"and reminds us all to always remember God always has open ears and an open heart to listen. It is up to us to speak up, communicate with God, and talk Jesus with everyone around us in order to spread the word of our faith with great pride and love.

This year we had excited 29 attendees arrive early in the morning ready to share the love for Jesus. Before we split up into workshops we enjoyed various skits about opening your heart to Jesus and understanding when struggling through hardships, Jesus is ready to listen. We continued to hear encouraging pep talk from special teen speakers in order to open our hearts to God for this special day. We also sang along to spiritual music performed by Ike Ndolo and his talented band. We then began our first session in which a few of us attended "Dealing with Stress" session led by our special speaker  Judy and her dog Daisy. Judy spoke about her struggles of having post traumatic stress disorder, and urges us that when in dire times, never be afraid to ask for help. The "The Truth Sex, Love, and Relationships" session was led by Mary Bielski. Most of our members attended this session and learned how sex is good in order for God to encourage us to procreate, the importance of treating yourself with respect, and the duties to the fulfillment to marriage.

Youth Day was a great opportunity for our TNF members to join among thousands of teens sharing their faith in God and appreciating his never ending love. From spending time in the arena watching live music, to engaging in mass, or gaining wisdom from lectures with hundreds of people we all gained wisdom from the speakers throughout that day to continue talking to Jesus and as well talk Jesus to everyone around us. We hope you all found this day very inspirational and encouraging to maintaining a good relationship with God and as well proclaiming our faith with great pride.


To check out how Youth Day was like this year, check our vlog below!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Thứ Bẩy Đầu Tháng (3/7/15)

On March 7 Torrance had the honors of hosting Thứ Bẩy Đầu Tháng (TBDT). Every first Saturday of the month one doàn hosts TBDT and organizes activities in order for one another to bond and grow spiritually with one another. We also bring our "Passports to God" in order to collect stickers to possibly win a mini iPad! For every three stars, we receive raffle tickets in order to win this amazing prize.

We first started our day early in the morning at 8:30 a.m. to prepare the annex for mass, and decorations. Ngành Thiếu helped decorate our statue Mary with beautifully made paper flower assortments. By 10 a.m. we began mass with Cha Long and followed up with praying the Rosary. While praying the rosary a few Nghĩa members helped read each of the sorrowful mysteries in spirit of Easter. We prayed the sorrowful mysteries in order to follow along the pain and sufferings Mary went through seeing her only son die on the cross. After the Rosary, we began to play icebreakers and games such as "barnyard animals" and "bird and perch." We ended TBDT with delicious tacos and a a mini "karaoke session" singing along to music. 

Although the weather was extremely hot we enjoyed each others company nonetheless! Great thanks 
to everyone who came out on this special day to dedicate a small part of our day to Mary and to as well
create great memories with one another. Till next month!

To check out the fun we had that day, watch our vlog below!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Tết Văn Nghệ (2/28/15)

Hello everyone! We hope you all are relaxing and enjoying your weekend now that TNF has officially concluded our practices and preparation for Tết this year.

On March 28th, TNF and the rest of our Vietnamese church community held our annual Tết Văn Nghệ filled with amazing performances. TNF performed in Quốc Ca, Múa Lân, Ấu dance and the "Colors of the Rainbow" Fashion Show with Chị Pauline and Anh Thuận as MC's. Chị Britnee also sang beautifully to "Star Spangled Banner" to open the show. At the end of the night many took photos with one another in celebration of all our hard work being paid off. These past weeks created bigger opportunities for one another to bond and become even more of a stronger family. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves and found this night very rewarding. Great job to everyone who performed at our Tết Văn Nghệ! Till next year!

Check below for a recap of this special day!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Lunar New Year Weekend (2/21/15)

Chúc Mừng Năm Mới! We hope your week was filled with great joy and happiness for the new year with your friends and family.

TNF had a day off from sinh hoat and class in order for our members to spend the weekend to relax with their families during this special holiday weekend. Our Tết Văn Nghệ performers on the other hand utilized that day to practice for the "Colors of the Rainbow" Fashion Show, Ấu dance, and Múa Lân. We are performing next week on February 28th, so be sure to come by after 8 p.m. mass to see what is in store from our TNF family.

Check out our vlog below to take a peak of what to expect from next weeks performances!




















Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Valentine's Day with TNF (2/14/15)

Valentine's day this year fell on a Saturday which gave us the opportunity to spend time with one another sharing the great amount of love we have for TNF.

In the Valentine's day spirit, HT's and Nghĩa sold beautifully decorated red roses in fundraising money for TNF after mass. Although decorating and wrapping one hundred roses was rigorous job, we worked diligently in hopes of bringing great love and happiness for people to surprise their loved ones! We share great appreciation for everyone who supported by buying roses and we hope you all had a beautiful Valentine's day.

Watch our vlog below to see our fun filled day!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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RECAP: Thứ Bẩy Đầu Tháng - February 7, 2015

For the first Thứ Bẩy Đầu Tháng (TBDT) of the 2015 year, we gathered in San Gabriel on February 7. This TBDT was the start of something new called a "Passport to God". With this passport, for every time that you attend TBDT you will receive a sticker or stamp on your card. For every three, you will receive a ticket that will be drawn in a raffle at the end of the year on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. This year's grand prize is an iPad!

Although the passport is a fun incentive to go to TBDT, it also reminds us of a much more important reason to go: to make devotion to Mary. At TBDT, we can receive the Eucharist, go to confession, pray the rosary, and spend time with Mary. The mysteries of the Rosary remind us of the life, death, and glory of Jesus and Mary. It is important to meditate on these events and as we strive to love God like Mary has shown us, we get closer to God.

This TBDT we were joined by Cha Hiếu, who held mass. After mass and the Rosary prayer, we played games such as Musical Chairs 2.0, French Charades, and Singo. Our spirit was bright as we acted (some terribly) and sang some of our favorite tunes. We had lunch together and Đoàn Torrance was soon on the road back to our church to start sinh hoạt.

We had a full day of laughter and fun with our TNF family and we look forward to the coming events. We hope to see you in Torrance for March's TBDT on the 7th! 

Also, take a look below to watch our vlog from this special day!

Chị Pauline

Ðoàn Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

 

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February Events 2015

Hi everyone, hope you're all doing well! 

Just want to let you know about some more upcoming events Đoàn Torrance has this February:

Valentine's Day is coming! This Saturday 2/14, we will be selling $7 roses for Valentine's day after mass. Come join us for mass and take home a gift for your loved ones while supporting our TNF in this fundraiser.

On Saturday 2/28, Cộng Đoàn Thánh Phêrô Torrance will be having Tết Văn Nghệ after mass. Food is provided and there will be a raffle to win great prizes. If you are interested in raffle tickets, they are $2 each and you can buy them from our members. TNF will have two acts as well as múa lân.

We hope to see you soon!

Chị Pauline

Ðoàn Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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Đoàn Games (1/31/15)

Today was a very special day because all three ngành took a day off from học hỏi to relax with one another with a mixture of all sorts of fun games.

After a well spent morning of Tết Văn Nghệ practice, Nghĩa took a special part in leading games such as gió thổi, steal the bacon, red light green light, amoeba tag, and captain's coming. 

Want to check out how our games went? Watch our vlog below!

Chị Diana

Huynh Trưởng 

Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima

Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance

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