Our St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church family has invested in the Faith Formation and nurturing of the religious potential of all the children of our parish through the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd in our Nazareth House.  Over 20 CGS Catechists serve around 500 of our children every year.

CGS is celebrating 40 years in the USA on August 22-25 in Phoenix, Arizona.  We cannot all go in person but we can participate in the celebration, listen to speakers, and have access to more CGS resources via online livestream Digital Watch Parties.

All Catechists in every Catholic School Atrium are working to raise funds to purchase online links toward a Digital Party as described below.  Every amount raised will be pulled together to purchase a level of participation as priced : 

A watch party with 10 links that can be accessed in 10 different locations and will make available all the speaker recorded sessions for 90 days is the level called Friendship of Catechists and costs $1600 or each atrium can pay for or raise $160.

20 links is called Sheep of the Shepherd and costs $2,800 or $140 each.

30 links is called Morning Star and costs $3,600 or $120 each.

40 links is called True Vine and costs $4,000 or $100 each.

50 links is called Good Shepherd and costs $5,000 or $100 each.

May I ask your help to share this need and message to generous persons and organizations you know on behalf of all our SFA CGS Catechists for financial assistance towards this effort?  We appreciate any amount of gift.

May God bless our CGS work from beginning to end.  We thank you from the heart of the Good Shepherd!

For more information on our SFA CGS work, please visit https://bit.ly/40U03RW 

For more information on CGS in all the Wichita Catholic Schools, please visit http://bit.ly/49C2VH2

I hope you will consider giving your time and talent to our proposed combined efforts for the different school CGS atria to raise the money towards Digital Watch Parties that will allow us to participate online and get access to more CGS resources.

I wonder what else you can do and plan also towards this.

Thank you for considering uniting our efforts across Catholic Schools CGS atria as ONE Wichita Catholic Schools CGS Group.

This is an endeavor that the Wichita Catholic Schools CGS Group is taking on to communicate to every atrium in each of the Catholic School in our regions so we can network with everyone.  By June 30, we have time to share information and resources.  

We can get updates from each school by going to this shared spreadsheet and entering the amount raised for potential number of links by each school with the donors or sponsors we got.  We can do the group purchase by July 15 when we confirm at which level of amount of money or links we are.

Here is the link to the spreadsheet - 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BiapCcnoTEOVdh_aYwCj6BJZKwlsrI3jWkbN51LnSIw/edit?usp=sharing

All ways to invite donors and sponsors or to fundraise are welcome!

The information and materials or resources to invite donors or sponsors or to fundraise from CGSUSA is in this shared folder - 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nafJDCDGLrWa5wM_qCy52Qy3ZnqtOT4r?usp=sharing

May the Good Shepherd guide and bless our CGS work from beginning to end!

Happy Summer!

St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us!

Joyfully in Jesus,

Fey Barles

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School Assistant Principal

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Catechist Levels I/T, I, II, III

Nazareth House Administrator

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