October 29th: Food Drive with St. Vincent De Paul

Come and enjoy the beautiful day walking with the Saints around St. Thomas' neighborhood on a Food Drive for St. Vincent De Paul's Pantry. Dress up as a saint and join the party! We will also be giving away cards with the true story of All Hallows Eve. Departing from St. Thomas' old RE Wing's Porch around 2 p.m. and back around 4 p.m. We will start with prayer and meet briefly with the parents/captains of each group before departing.

Festive cheer and treats will be served afterwards to celebrate an effort well done and the feast day of All Hallows Eve. - Saint Vincent De Paul, Pray for Us!

Christ tells us in the Gospel that when we serve His people we are in turn serving Him.

To read more about Corporal Works of Mercy please visit http://catholicmom.com/2010/11/06/corporal-works-of-mercy-for-kids-by-kristi-mccabe/

NOTE: No Meeting on October 28th.

Thanks and God Bless!

October 20: A Glowing Faith - Making Flourescent Trees

Today we will be talking about Jesus' awesome invitation to have a faith of the size of a mustard seed to move mountains. and to remind us of this unique, special, and super powerful invitation, we will make fluorescent trees out of prayers. The more prayers you do, the more your tree will glow! see you there! Thanks and God Bless!

"The more you pray, the more your faith grow, the more you glow!"
Quote created by the team leaders

October 14: Turning a banana into a doggie

Today we talked about food and about remembering to say thank you to Jesus and praying for others that don't have all the things we have received from God. We got together for snacks while we played and sang Pocahontas' songs and then we learned something really cool! to turn a banana into a doggie! We also watched a photo gallery about women in Mexico making beautiful pottery and how they were very grateful for all the blessings they received through the fruits of their hard work. We got to talk about the food drive we will be doing for Hallows' Eve and about asking the Saints like St. Vincent and St. Francis to walk with us during the food drive.

Thank you, God Bless and until next time!

October 8: Floating Rosary Rally

This morning, the Challenge Club team leaders and families got up really early in the morning to make a floating Rosary out of helium balloons. We had been reviewing every single detail for the whole week and we were awaiting this day with great anticipation! Thanks to all the helpers that came to help us! It was awesome because each balloon was like a prayer waiting to fly to Mary, and because a lot of people got together to pray the Rosary for Life and for all the unborn babies! The girls from St. Joseph's Challenge Club saved the day because they came to help us transport the 53 balloons and the cross made out of twenty-something bright yellow balloons to the grassy field in front of PP. God treated us with an awesome morning a beautiful statue of Mary reminding us of her infinite beauty and motherly presence in our midst. It was a great day! Thank you Jesus, Thank you Mary! God Bless and until next time!

Second Meeting: October 7: Our Lady of the Rosary

Today is the feast of our Lady of the Rosary. To celebrate, we received very special Rosaries that shine at night and that were blessed with water from Lourdes, France (where Mary appeared to St. Bernadette), and an image of our Lady of the Rosary with how to pray the Rosary on the back, then we talked about miracles that happened to people that prayed the Rosary, like the battle of Lepanto and the small house in Japan where they were praying the Rosary that was the only house that was not destroyed when the atomic bomb exploded and many others! God is awesome! and Mary really likes to help us! We also learned that Mary is asking us to pray the Rosary daily for the peace of the world. We went to the Chapel to pray one Mystery of the Rosary and then we came back and played with balloons and learned about the Floating Rosary project. So cool! We made our own helium balloon and got to write things like "Lady of the Victory, Pray for us!". We had grapes, Cheetos and lemonade for snack. Thanks, God Bless and until next time!

First Meeting: St. Francis of Asissi's Prayer

Dear Friends, today )Friday ) we had our first meeting of the year! yeah! we talked about the story of St. Francis and watched a video about St. Francis' prayer (make me an instrument of your peace) We prayed together before snacks and made animal balloons for the children to give away at the Blessing of the Pets the next morning. We also played games to get to know each other better. Then at the end we went to visit the Chapel and spent some time with Jesus. While we waited for our parents we played a few games and got to take a few animal balloons with us to celebrate St. Francis Day!

Face Painting Booth at AquinasFest- Sept 24th 2011

Dear Friends,

Our Face Painting Booth Project was awesome! we painted @150 smiles in many children of our community!

We had such a great fun that we don't want to wait a whole year to do it again. Do you have any ideas?

Thank you for all your help and please keep praying for all of the girls in our community and for Challenge Club to bring fun projects that can touch many hearts with the very love of our best friend Christ!

Sincerely,
Challenge Club