Service

Our school community serves by being stewards of the gifts we have been given:

• caring for our classrooms and materials through recycling and respectful use
• caring for one another through our words and actions

Our school community serves our parish community by:

• volunteering as Altar Servers and Hospitality Ministers for Mass
• participating in Youth Ministry service efforts
• evangelizing the faith through active roles in Liturgy of the Word for Children services
• serving at Mass and at funeral masses
• volunteering at parish event (Fall Festival, Trivia Night)
• collecting food for the food shelves (during school masses)
• writing and designing thank you cards to show appreciation to the parish for their support of Catholic Education

• collecting aluminum can rings to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House, a local nonprofit agency serving children and families with significant medical needs.
• collecting items for Christmas Anonymous to Adopt a Family, mindful that our savior Jesus had no home at His birth
• sending Valentine cards to local nursing home residents and thank you cards to the Sisters of Assisi
• holding an annual collection of peanut butter and jelly for the local Channel One Food Shelf to share the virtue of kindness with the hungry in our community

Our school community serves our world by:

• participating in activities throughout the year to help support students at Colegio Anexo San Francisco de Asis in Bogota, Colombia, a school that is run by the Franciscan Sisters
• System-wide food and dry goods collection campaign in support of the students and families of the Catholic St. Mary’s Mission School on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota