Merry Christmas!

Souper Bowl of Caring 2011

Souper Bowl of Caring will be here soon! Watch the video and think about how you can be a part of this movement to fight hunger!

 Collection Days: Saturday & Sunday, February 5th & 6th, 2011

Service Blitz: Saturday, February 5th, 2011

For more information about this national, youth-led movement please visit:

http://www.souperbowl.org/

Rochester Catholic Citywide Event for 6-12th Grade

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Departure Time: Noon from Pax Christi Lower Parking Lot

Return Time: 8pm at Pax Christi Lower Parking Lot

Cost: Ski Package - $62 (includes ticket, ski or snowboard rental, and $12 bus fee)
Rental Only - $35 (includes $12 bus fee)
Lift Ticket Only - $39 (includes $12 bus fee)
Beginner Lesson (ski/snowboard) - $15 (must know by Dec. 20th)
Transportation Only – $12

 Snowboard Renters (please read): Snowboard rentals require a credit card number as a security deposit. Parents/Guardians may place the card number on the lower portion of the rental equipment form or call Welch Village (651-258-4567 ext. 23) preferably 24 hours prior to the visit to leave a major credit card number on file for the deposit. You will be asked for the boarder’s name, group name (Pax Christi) and date (12/29/10).
Note: Bring money or sack dinner to eat in the Lodge. We have room for up to 2 adult to chaperone and ski for free. Contact Angie for more information.
Please return rental form, permission form and payment to
Pax Christi Parish Office by
December 20th, 2010.
Checks made payable to Pax Christi Church.

Permission Forms available in the Gathering Space kiosk.

January 8th Lifeline 2011

The next trip will be Saturday, January 8th (second Saturday due to Christmas break.) Bus loads at Holy Spirit at 3:30PM and leaves by 3:45 PM. Return to Holy Spirit at approx. midnight.

Mass with Fr. Fred Gaglia and later that evening...
Dynamic Breakouts For High School Men & Women!
Make a determined resolution to be here for the first Lifeline of this brand new year! Plan on an excellent night to get energized and equipped in the Faith. Our evening features SONAR with excellent praise and worship, Mass, challenging sessions for high school men and women and… the 2010-11 NET Teams who will share the Gospel with over 60,000 Catholic teens this school year!
Breakouts include:
• “An Adventure To Live” For High School Men Only
• “AUTHENTIC Femininity” For High School Women Only


Cost is $10 for the bus payable to Holy Spirit.


Registration form and bus fee are due by Tuesday, January 4. Watch for permission forms in the Gathering Space soon!
(Other costs: $5 suggested offertory during Mass, $9 for pizza and pop after the event.)

Calling all artists!

From Joanne Markee at Interfaith Hospitality Network:

We are now in the planning stages for a new and exciting event for 2011. We are going to host a “BED RACE” – during Rochesterfest. We are looking for a creative innovative unique LOGO – for our t-shirt.  All entries must be in no later than January 31, 2011.  Please think about it – and help us to design a unique creative logo and TSHIRT for our event. More to come on this!

Send all entries to:

email: director@ihngr.org

or mail : 811 7th St NW, Rochester, MN 55901

More Information:
The bed race – will have teams of 5 people (four pushing and one riding) – racing down the city street! The bed must have 4 wheels – brakes – no motor…design and creativity will be rewarded! This is going to be a fun event…and we need a GREAT LOGO to go on the t-shirts!

Iron Chef 2010

IRON CHEF rescheduled to Saturday, December 18th.  Times and locations stay the same.  New teams now can register until Thursday, December 16th.  See Carol for Details.

 
Cost: $5 per person. Open to all youth grades 6-12. There will be separate winners for middle school and high school.

Students will sign up in teams of 2-4 people. The winning team will be awarded the coveted Golden Spatula as well as a gift card for each person.

 Each team will need one ‘host kitchen’ and one adult leader. The leader will be given the secret ingredient ahead of time. The secret ingredient will be revealed to participants at 10 am. At that time the students may begin planning and preparing their secret dish. Students have until 12:30 pm to finish their dish and get to Holy Spirit Church. (5455 NW 50th Ave.)

Teams will be judged in 4 categories: Appearance, Creativity, Taste and Difficulty. Points will be awarded 1-5. The team with the highest number of points will win. Local celebrity judges will be brought in to administer points.

Permission forms available in the Parish Center Office or Gathering Space kiosk. Or request a form be emailed to you from youthminister@stfrancis-church.org.

 

Wrapping Party:Update!

As an incentive to bring friends to this youth group event, a deal was made. If 15 kids signed up then Carol would wear an elf costume to the Wrapping Party. Well, they did it and so Carol dressed accordingly!

 The kids were busy right away wrapping their gifts for families in need. There were dolls and books to gloves, towels and lotions. In total, we wrapped about 30 gifts for the Advent Angel Tree!
 

Then we had a building contest with mini marshmallows, spaghetti noodles, and frosting. Needless to say, it got a little messy! After a wash of the hands and the tables we did a couple minute to win it games!

The kids enjoyed some food and settled in to watch ELF. Almost everyone came with 'festive dress' for the night.  Costumes ranged from giant christmas packages (big enough to hide a 7th grader inside!) to roaring fireplaces complete with stockings and reindeer antlers to elves and christmas trees!

Our ‘most festive dressed’ winner was Kathryn Heimer (Christmas Tree) who took home the award for the THIRD year in a row! The vote was very close and Caitlyn and Lauren Salinas (elves) came in as the runner up!

Kathryn Heimer--3rd time Winner!



Caitlyn and Lauren Salinas--Runners Up!



Thank you to all the youth who came early to help decorate!  Thanks also to the parents and youth who stayed to help clean up!

Cardboard Box City 2010: Update!

A group of us from the St. Francis got a picture in the article the Post Bulletin did about Cardboard Box City this year!  Read the article below and visit the link to read more and see all the pictures from the event.

Post Bulletin article:

Main Event: Group members spend night in boxes

By Sarah Shonyo

The Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN

The ordinarily vacant stretch of lawn at Soldiers Field Park was recently the site of a dramatic — albeit temporary — urban development venture.

Nearly 300 participants and 40 volunteers braved the plunging temps on Oct. 22 to take part in the sixth annual Cardboard Box City.

The event, which is generally geared toward kids and young adults, raises awareness of homelessness in and around Olmsted County and raises funds to support homelessness efforts by the Salvation Army and Interfaith Hospitality Network... (read more)


Cardboard Box CIty posted it's own pictures, too!  See all the event photos here:
http://cardboard-box-city.org/2010_Event_Pictures.html