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Each year with the guidance and support of many dedicated volunteer catechists, around 150 children, from preschool through junior high, learn about their faith on Sunday mornings from late September to mid-May. Teens assist catechists with our preschoolers. Registration for 2013-2014 Please return completed forms to Georgie Saydak at the Parish Center as soon as possible. All classes begin on Sunday, September 15. Children registered on that date WILL NOT BE PLACED on the first day of class. CIC Catechists Need Your Help! We already have FOUR experienced catechists who "break open the Word" for these youth. Over a 10-month period (excluding holiday weekends), the catechists rotate a month of Sundays. Will you consider volunteering to be an Assistant during 10 to 12 of these sessions over the next year? The requirements include fingerprinting (paid for by the parish) and a 1-1/2 hour online course on child abuse prevention. On the Sundays that you were scheduloed, you would leave Mass (90% of the time at the 9:30 am Mass) after the homily when the catechumens are dismissed. You would also assist the youth at a Mass for the Liturgy of the Eucharist and receiving Communion, Please contact Georgie Saydak with questions or to volunteer (443-8084 x112 or GeorgieS@stfrancisparish.com). Preschool Program Needs Your Help! If you would like to help make the Preschool program a reality for this year's 3- and 4-yhear-olds, please consider being part of a team of two volunteer Preschool catechists for about 25 Sundays. Catechists teams can either co-teach or rotate Sundays. Experience is welcome but not required. Fingerprinting (paid for by the parish) and a 1-1/2 hour online course on child abuse prevention are required. Teen helpers are scheduled to assist in the class for each Sunday. We provide a curriculum and catechists manual geared for that age group. Please contaqct Georgie Saydak with questions or to volunteer (443-8084 x112 or GeorgieS@stfrancisparish.com).
Children with Special Needs More Information:
Catechumenate for Children Sessions begin Tuesday, October 16, 2012. More Information:
Confirmation Preparation More Information:
Children’s Liturgy of the Word (CLOW) Children are dismissed just after the opening prayers and go with an adult presider to the Parish Center Chapel to hear the Word proclaimed and explained in more age-appropriate language. During CLOW our children's choir sings. The children return during the Preparation of the Gifts. Parents are welcome to accompany their children to the Parish Center Chapel during the Liturgy of the Word and then return with them for the Liturgy of the Eucharist. More Information:
Little Lambs Summer Care (Nursery) Program Nursery resumes Sunday, June 3, in the Parish Center. An Invitation to Share Your Faith There are many ways to inform, form, and transform (catechize) children's faith:
Please contact Georgie Saydak for more information about these opportunities (443-8084 x112 or GeorgieS@stfrancisparish.com). Share Your Faith with Little Children Our Tots Need You
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Kids Wanted for Children's Choir Children's Faith Formation Volunteers Needed!
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For more information Please Contact: Georgie Saydak (916) 443-8084 x112 GeorgieS@stfrancisparish.com |
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One of the opportunities we like to offer families is a Preschool program during the 9:30a.m. Mass, from mid-September through mid-May, with holiday weekends off. We can only offer a Preschool program with the help of good folks with generous spirits, willing to work with and keep these little ones happy and safe.
We invite your children (K-6th grades) to participate in our CLOW program at 9:30 a.m. Mass.
This program is offered year-round except during summer.
No registration is required, and it's free.
Our childcare program for children of walking age to five years of age (by 9/1/2011) will resume on September 9, in the Parish Center Courtyard. Please come to the 26th Street Gate to enter. Registration for this ministry is required. Please contact Georgie Saydak to register at (916) 443-8084 x112 or 
When we are baptized as Catholic Christians, we are called to share our faith. You are invited to live out that call in a formal way by teaching children about God's love for us. Some different ways to serve include:
Like to help care for really young ones? We especially need assistance in our Nursery Program during the 9:30 a.m. Mass. Nursery involves child care and NOT teaching; while we have teen helpers, we need a couple of adults who can work in Nursery about once or twice a month. you share the responsibilities and have a chance to make new friends. This is a ministry or caring, not just for the children, but also for their parents, who can be free to participate Mass while their little ones are cared for. Please consider helping and contact Georgie (443-8084 x112