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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