For the last four years one of the great challenges for Catholic youth in Tonga has been making a choice for life. The Vocational Awareness Programme encourages them to seek their vocation first for religious life and then for married life. In June 1990, the Council of Catholic Leaders set up a new programme called A to Mission. This means that the youth teams were going out and running seminars, retreat or renewal workshops for the youth of their own levels. It was very hard the first time to change the attitudes and perceptions that held that only the priests, brothers, nuns and some lay people can do these things. There was a lot of confusion as to whether they accepted the team or not. We put our trust in prayer and asked the Holy Spirit to lead us. The youth chaplain is a young priest who understands our weaknesses. We found it hard to face the youth of our own level. So the youth chaplain asked for permission from the bishop to join us on our first mission to the outer islands. After running these seminars in the outer islands we felt more confident to tackle the main islands. All the seminars we have are like miracles because we leave everything to the Holy Spirit. At the end of the seminar we wait for the evaluation to see how the participants responded to the seminar. What a great joy within us when we got the spirit of Youth to Mission. The participants shared; they had never experienced any spirit like that in the past. We felt that it was true because the team recounted deeply their own experiences, and shared their private thoughts. The team talked openly and everyone was free to ask questions. Some questions were hard to answer and the priest had to help us. Our most difficult experience was in 1990, the door to door visits for which we had prepared a lot of questions to put to the parents. More than half the parents were negative towards the youth group. For me this experience was a miracle, and now the Youth to Mission is extended into different areas. Today we have four teams, each with its own responsibility. The first team does the leadership training and counselling in the outer islands, which are twenty in number. The second team looks after the retreats of the senior classes of the Catholic colleges. The third team looks after the Vocational Awareness Programme. There is one vocation weekend every three months. The participants number more than one hundred since they come from both main and outer islands. The last team looks after the workshops on AIDS, drugs, reproductive health, family planning, environment, project proposals and preparing for married life. The council is comprised of forty-eight members, compared to only sixteen in 1990. The council spends one weekend every month to come together for prayer, inputs, sharing, presentations, and building the spirit of team work. On that weekend we invite a lot of guest speakers to give us input, and that is how we get our resources now. In addition, the youth chaplain and the co-ordinator collect and compile resources. Our mission has now changed. In 1990, ninety percent of our mission was within the church, and ten percent outside. In 1993, only sixty percent of our mission was within the church, and forty percent outside. Our external mission is formed by ecumenical youth contacts and the Tongan National Congress, both of which work together. What we try to build up in Youth to Mission is an individual with a spirit, that through baptism, he/she gets a right to share Christ's prophets, kings and priesthood. We are preparing ourselves to go and proclaim the good news. All the youth that started in 1990 are now married or chose priesthood and religious life. They are the hope of the church. It is clear now that they are very active in their own parishes. In the youth council there are eight volunteer members. On 5 April 1994, a team of four (two boys and two girls) members were willing to take the first Youth to Mission Programme to Niuatoputapu. …