Parents with students attending ARWEVA and other public schools:

As you may or may not have heard, Faith formation is no longer being offered at St. Ann-Vail along with St. John in Arcadia due to Ministry 2025 planning in Crawford County.  Parishioners at Vail have been informed they may register with Sacred Heart-Manning, St. Rose of Lima Worship Site Sacred Heart-Manilla, St. Rose of Lima-Denison, or at CCRE @ St. Lawrence-Carroll.

I officially learned of this news yesterday, September 1.

After visiting with Robin Lawler, Pat Vogl, Julie Eich, and Fr. Kevin Richter—we have decided to hold a parent town hall meeting on Wednesday September 6 at 7:00 p.m. in the St. John church hall.

We will be looking at our options at St. John Parish including possibility holding Faith Formation [CCD program] for this school year (2017-2018) at St. John or sending our youth to other programs in the area.  With St. Ann not having classes this year we've been discussing our children's options and we'd like to have your input! Here are just a few options available to our kids:

            Sacred Heart Church in Manning

                        Grades 1st-6th from 5:30-6:30pm

            Grades 7th-12th 7:00-8:00pm

CCRE (St Lawrence in Carroll)

Grades K-3rd 4:00-5:00pm
Grades 4th-10th 7:00-8:00pm

            St. Rose of Lima in Denison [I do not have the times at this time]

St. Rose of Lima Worship Site Sacred Heart-Manilla [I do not have the times at this time]

Perhaps, we could offer Faith Formation on Wednesdays from 3:45-4:45 for grades K-3^rd and 7:00-8:00 p.m. for 4-10^th grade, or 3:45-4:45 for K and/or 1^st-8^th (doing it right after school so kids can ride bus straight to Arcadia) depending on if we can find enough catechists and have them trained in the Safe Environment program before they began working with our youth.  At this point there are two catechists willing to work with the 1^st and 3^rd grade students.

At this time we have a couple different options but would like to discuss these at this parent meeting including sacramental preparation for our youth.

I hope you will be present for this meeting to help support the faith formation of our children, whether in Arcadia or in another parish program.

I thank you for your kind attention to this matter and know that we can work together to help provide a deeper relationship with Christ for our children, each of us, and our parish.

Peace,

Rev. Mark J. Stoll, JCL

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A Parent Town Hall  Meeting will be held Wednesday September 6, 7:00 p.m. in the church hall at St. John to discuss options for Faith Formation for our children as St. Ann-Vail is not offering Faith Formation this year. [9/1/2017]

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Stay tuned for more information regarding students of St. John the Baptist attending Ar-We-Va and other public schools as there is no Faith formation being offered at St. Ann-Vail along with St. John in Arcadia.  Parishioners at Vail have been informed they may register with Sacred Heart-Manning, St. Rose of Lima Worship Site Sacred Heart-Manilla, St. Rose of Lima-Denison, or at CCRE @ St. Lawrence-Carroll.  Contact Fr. Mark for more information.  [8/31/2017]