Church of St. Anthony - New Town, North Dakota
The Black & Indian Grant has helped St. Anthony of New Town to provided many different opportunities for our students.
One opportunity that we provided was St. Anthony Day Camp which took place last year from June 18 – 23 from 9am to 3pm. This camp provided students with the opportunity for daily Mass, Adoration, Confession and learning daily about the Catholic faith. This was entwined throughout the day with plays, skits and recreational activities. Lunch and snacks were provided throughout day. We are in the process of getting ready for this camp and will be buying food, snacks and supplies for the children.
St. Anthony of New Town also provides Faith Formation classes on Wednesday evenings. We begin in September and go through May. We need to provided teacher and student workbooks, Biblical Movies, prayer incentives and we also provide a small snack for our students in attendance. The grant monies have helped to support these items. We ended our year on May 10th and had a picnic and games. We gave the students statues of St. Anthony at the end of the year.
As the year continued on we were able to open the Atrium for the Catechist’s of the Good Shepherd. We needed to buy supplies for the Level I of Catechist’s of the Good Shepherd. There was training available for this particular style of Faith Formation locally in Bismarck and have sent people to the training. We are sending Delphine Baker to training the second week in July and our funds help with this. We also have purchased more materials for our atrium.
We continue to prepare adults and children as well for the Sacraments. In order to do so we also have to buy materials and supplies and have used these grant monies for this. We have prepared children for Baptism, First Holy Communion, Sacrament of Reconciliation, and Confirmation. Fr. Roger continues to do Marriage preparation and other classes as well. We are always looking for different materials and ways to teach these Sacraments and continue to build our curriculum of materials to use. We had 6 students received the sacrament of FHC this year, these students were prepared using these materials bought with these funds.
