LifeFunders for Month: August 2015

Annual Fund

You can help individuals and families find a path out of poverty — permanently. 

Your donation to Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph helps provide immediate help with food, clothing and shelter. But it doesn’t stop there. Everyone who comes to Catholic Charities has access to additional services including employment, health and wellness and training and support.

SPO – Formation Program

SPO FORMATION PROGRAMThe Formation in Christian Living Program augments the
Household program, forming young people into mature men and women trained in
the Catholic faith and life. This vital work for the Church is accomplished
through weekly teaching, pastoral mentoring, and accountability groups. These
three pillars of the program provide an incredibly strong foundation in the
Catholic faith.
“One of the greatest gifts that SPO gives is formation. It’s
essential. If anyone, for example, is going to live a Catholic marriage and
pass on the faith to their children, they need mature formation, and SPO is
providing that.”
— Bishop Andrew Cozzens, SPO AlumnusPlease consider a donation of $25.00 today. The more we work to pool our resources — even small amounts — the more good we can do together. This school is very important. It’s our shield against modernity. We reform young women and men to be leaders — and to march with Christ into the field.Come join SPO. Join the movement. We can do this together.- Team SPO

SPO – School of the New Evangelization

SCHOOL FOR THE NEW EVANGELIZATIONEach summer, SPO mobilizes college students and Catholic
ministry leaders from across the U.S. through the School of the New
Evangelization (SNE). Participants receive some of the best SPO has to offer:
dynamic orthodox teaching, powerful prayer, and rich community living. As a
result, each year SNE sends out hundreds of young people to bring Catholic
faith to life on campus.
“The best instrument to evangelize young people is other
young people.”
— Pope FrancisHelp support our School for the New Evangelization. Small donations go a long way. Consider a $25.00 today. If we pool them together, we can build something great — to send into the world a mass of hundreds of youth ready to change people and souls for Christ.Join the SPO movement!- Team SPO

SPO – Households

SPO HOUSEHOLDSSPO Householdsequip young Catholics to live out the call to holiness in their daily lives. Living the Household way of life fosters growth in selfless love and service through daily personal prayer, regular meals, weekly chores, and evangelistic outreach. Because this formation in Christian living and mission is learned day in and day out, the components of this new way of life in Christ become habits that last a lifetime.“To evangelize means… to teach the art of living.”— Pope Benedict XVIHelp support our SPO households. A donation of just $25.00 goes a long way. It costs about $25,000 per year to run a household. Let’s work together!The more we can raise — the more households we can create. The more households we create, the more souls we help along the way.Join us. Join the SPO movement.- Team SPO

Fan Into Flame Retreat – Fall 2015

FAN INTO FLAME RETREAT – 2015

Every year hundreds of lives across the nation are transformed through SPO’s Fan into Flame retreats. They provide college students and young professionals with the chance to choose Jesus Christ as Lord and to live more fully in the power of his Holy Spirit.

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“I would not be a priest, longing to be a saint, or even believing it was possible, had I not encountered SPO. I hadn’t thought of being a priest as a youth, but when I encountered the presence of the Holy Spirit through SPO, that entire world opened up to me and I began to imagine such a life.”

— Fr. Michael Becker, SPO Alumnus

God is alive and is renewing the world today through the power of His Holy Spirit! The Church is experiencing a new Pentecost and millions of people are being touched by this renewal of the Spirit. Saint Paul’s Outreach is a part of this renewal. 

God loves us and he wants us to live a full and happy life. He created us to be in relationship with him. But sin has separated us from our relationship with God. Jesus came into the world to forgive our sins and reconcile us to God and to one another. Jesus Christ is the only one who can give us the power to live a new life. Through him we can know God’s love and share in God’s life with others. In order to enter into this full new life we must accept Jesus Christ into our lives as Lord and Savior. Then we can be baptized in the Holy Spirit and experience the power to live a new life.

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“May there be repeated thus in Christian families the spectacle of the apostles gathered together in Jerusalem after the Ascension of Jesus to heaven, when the newborn Church was completely united in communion of thought and prayer with Peter and around Peter, the shepherd of the lambs and of the sheep. And may the Divine Spirit deign to answer in a most comforting manner the prayer that rises to him from every corner of the earth: ‘Renew Your wonders in our time, as though for a new Pentecost, and grant that the holy Church, preserving unanimous and continuous prayer, together with Mary the Mother of Jesus, and also under the guidance of St. Peter, may increase the reign of the divine Savior, the reign of truth and justice, the reign of love and peace. Amen.’”

– Pope Saint John XXIII

Support our Fan into Flame retreat for Fall 2015!
A donation of just $25.00 goes a long way.  If we work together, we can fund the retreat…and change the lives of hundreds, which will change the lives and thousands…and exponentially more from there.