Over 200 young missionaries attend opening mass, Immaculate Conception, Chicago, 4 April 2007.

Chicago, April 23, 2007.  More than 200 missionaries participated in 15 parish missions in the Chicago area during the Easter Holy Week, calling on more than 4,500 homes to invite the faithful to Easter services.

The missionaries, participants in Youth for the Third Millennium, included families, children, young people and adults from around the country who came to Chicago to evangelize during the most holy time of the Church year.

Youth for the Third Millennium (YTM) is a program of the Regnum Christi movement and exists to evangelize people by

	Family Missionaries in action, St Daniel the Prophet parish near Midway Airport.

sending missionaries out into the community to witness to Christ and his message.

YTM was founded in Bethesda, Maryland in 1995 and has conducted over 700 parish missions with youth and adult missionaries in the United States and internationally. To date, YTM has knocked on over 200,000 doors with over 7000 missionaries. YTM’s sister organizations like Juventud Misionera are active in many countries all over the world.