The name “ECYD” is an acronym that represents “encounters, convictions, your decisions”, and is used as such globally, independent of a country’s language. The name denotes the dynamic of ECYD’s life: through different experiences of encounter, adolescents acquire firm life convictions and learn to make free and responsible decisions according to Gospel criteria.  

The ECYD mission is to collaborate with Christ so that he might reign in the hearts of adolescents and in the world.  

ECYD experiences include these elements:

• Prayer life
• Virtue Development
• Friendships
• Mentoring
• Service

… so that youth develop friendship with Jesus in their every day life and experience their mission to be his apostles.

ECYD life is lived out through:

• Regular team meetings
• Retreats
• Camps, or conventions
• Apostolates