We are getting ready for the Holy Trinity Parish family faith formation program to start up again in the fall and we need your help to make it successful. The goal of the program is to create and implement various faith formation activities which will engage participation from ALL of the parish family members. These programs, faith groups, and activities will encourage us all to learn more about our Catholic Christian faith, live out our faith daily, and spread the love of Jesus Christ to all those around us. By engaging the entire parish family in these activities, groups, and programs, children will see that faith formation is a lifelong journey. It doesn’t end once they receive First Reconciliation, Confirmation, and First Eucharist, it truly BEGINS there! The more they are engaged by and interact with the whole community of the parish, the more they will want to become involved.
None of us can say that we have perfect faith lives or that we have completed our faith journeys. Every day we each take our own steps along our individual paths to holiness. We all have different experiences and strengths, all of which can be shared and used to help build and strengthen our faith community! By having a family-led and parish-supported faith formation and Sacramental prep program, we all can grow in faith together. While much of the learning will be done at home, having a strong parish faith formation program is essential to the growth of our parish. This is where you all come in, and each of you can assist in one way or another!
First, we need you each to prayerfully consider how you can help this program. The more people we have involved, the better! It’s not *just* teaching (although we need that, too). We would love to involve the children in parish activities such as gardening, crafting, baking, community clean-ups, the possibilities are endless! At most, we would need a couple of hours per month from you, but we would be happy to have more if you felt so moved!
Second, we need volunteers from each campus to help lead the in-person semi-monthly family faith formation meetings. The meetings will consist of gatherings with the whole families, with breakout sessions for the children who are also preparing to receive their sacraments. Ideally, we would have at least 6 people per campus helping to lead each meeting, which would probably last about an hour to an hour and a half.
Third, we need you to invite families with children back into our churches. If you have children, grandchildren, siblings, or friends whose children need to learn about our faith, let them know that we are back and that we would love to welcome them into our Masses and programs!
Finally, please pray for a successful family faith formation program. Pray that the Holy Spirit guides us along the path that will lead us all into a closely knitted community and into closer communion with Jesus Christ.
If you have any questions about the program or would like to help out, please contact our Faith Formation Coordinator, Kristen Downing de Almeida at either kalm4now@hotmail.com or 603-490-8555. You can also join the Facebook page “Holy Trinity Parish Family Faith Formation program” to be kept up-to-date on all of our activities!
None of us can say that we have perfect faith lives or that we have completed our faith journeys. Every day we each take our own steps along our individual paths to holiness. We all have different experiences and strengths, all of which can be shared and used to help build and strengthen our faith community! By having a family-led and parish-supported faith formation and Sacramental prep program, we all can grow in faith together. While much of the learning will be done at home, having a strong parish faith formation program is essential to the growth of our parish. This is where you all come in, and each of you can assist in one way or another!
First, we need you each to prayerfully consider how you can help this program. The more people we have involved, the better! It’s not *just* teaching (although we need that, too). We would love to involve the children in parish activities such as gardening, crafting, baking, community clean-ups, the possibilities are endless! At most, we would need a couple of hours per month from you, but we would be happy to have more if you felt so moved!
Second, we need volunteers from each campus to help lead the in-person semi-monthly family faith formation meetings. The meetings will consist of gatherings with the whole families, with breakout sessions for the children who are also preparing to receive their sacraments. Ideally, we would have at least 6 people per campus helping to lead each meeting, which would probably last about an hour to an hour and a half.
Third, we need you to invite families with children back into our churches. If you have children, grandchildren, siblings, or friends whose children need to learn about our faith, let them know that we are back and that we would love to welcome them into our Masses and programs!
Finally, please pray for a successful family faith formation program. Pray that the Holy Spirit guides us along the path that will lead us all into a closely knitted community and into closer communion with Jesus Christ.
If you have any questions about the program or would like to help out, please contact our Faith Formation Coordinator, Kristen Downing de Almeida at either kalm4now@hotmail.com or 603-490-8555. You can also join the Facebook page “Holy Trinity Parish Family Faith Formation program” to be kept up-to-date on all of our activities!
The registration form is now available. Please download and complete the form and
return it to the parish office or the coordinator.