Great Cause!

I'm not going to get in the habit of plugging my own stuff, but I can't resist this time because I am so proud of the kids! (This wasn't even my idea... it was Debbie's.) What you are looking at is our Jr. High Youth Ministry Youth Can. The kids decorated it themselves this week during class. The bags are just a few of what the kids decorated to donate to the women at ShadeTree. They are stuffed with items that women would need to go out job hunting and interviewing. The flour and sugar represent the breast cancer awareness cookies we will be baking and decorating next week for all the women in the parish.

Back to the can: it does have a "real" purpose. We will be conducting many drives throughout the year to benefit different causes in our parish, local and national communities. Whenever we need something from the parish we will publish the list in the bulletin and the next week those items can be placed in our Youth Can before or after Mass in the Gathering Space. Pretty cool, hu? I really hope that the response from the parish is good. It will be really nice for the kids to feel that much support for what they are doing. There will be some kind of promo about this at all the Masses in a few weeks. It may be a video. It may be Debbie and me talking. It depends on how good the video the kids made turned out. I have yet to watch the footage. I hope it's good, because I don't want to let the kids down by not using it. So, we'll see... If you attend CTK please help us out when we need it and if you don't attend CTK you can still help because you know me and I'm in the middle of it all!

The Youth Can is a great thing!