Sharing talents and a love of music

Awesome day- enjoyed meeting all of the kids.  My two highlights of the day were

• The mass with Monsignor, Fr. Bob, and Fr. Andrew, and 
• John Putnam playing the drums for all of the kids!

Father Luke, music instructors, and Sister Josemarie
watch over some of the demonstration drummers
in the new St. James Performing Arts Live Center

- Luke Tabit 

Focus on education

Sister Margareth of St James Primary School
with Barbara Sandusky

Great Day --Meeting the children and staff at the church and school was an inspirational experience!

- Barbara Sandusky

Young children were a bigger hit than the dolls we gave them!

My favorite part of the day was visiting the children in the St. James School.  High fives all around, watching the pure happiness in the children’s faces when receiving the beautiful dolls, and the music, music, music!  I’m sure I touched hands with over 200 children. Let’s import the drums for our 1:15 Mass.

 -Patti Summers

The dolls distributed were contributed by Dollies Making a Difference.

St Monica pilgrims spend the day getting to know Holy Cross Dandora Parish

The travelers from St Monica were overwhelmed at the many services that Holy Cross Dandora provides its parishioners and the other people in the community.  Today's blog posts will touch upon some of these.

The tour of the parish began with a stop at the water tower.  Because of the generosity of St Monica years ago, Holy Cross Dandora is able to provide clean drinking water to its people.

The people in the parish might have electricity in their homes but likely do not have internet access, so we visited the Cyber Cafe that the parish provides to its parishioners at a low cost.

Next to the Cyber Cafe is a sewing school where students learn the tailoring trade.  This vocational school can mean the difference between unemployment and survival for these students.  -AF