A "MIRACLE" OF NEW CHROMEBOOKS AND USED LAPTOPS

I HAVE SOME GREAT NEWS TO SHARE

Our Third "Kids' Summer Computer Camp" Is  Ready to Roll

 

This coming summer, we hope to offer our third "kids' summer computer camp" down in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. As you can see from these photos, taken last summer, we had more kids to show up than we had computers. 

Beth Kolodey, our kids'computer teacher, could not be more pleased going into her third summer. 


THE GOOD NEWS
Through the generosity of some caring and generous people, this Christmas we have added twenty new Chromebooks and four good used laptops to the program. 

Thanks especially to Bill and Beth Kolodey, who stood in line in several stores during the recent "Black Friday Sales" to get them at the huge bargain price of $99.00 each!  





We added twenty new Chromebooks in one day! 
Wow! 

COULD WE USE MORE? Yes, of course, we could use more! If you can donate a new one or a good used one, just let us know! It could change a poor kid's life! 

CONGRATULATIONS, BETH, YOU MADE THE NEWS

Louisville's EAST END LIVING magazine featured our SECOND WIND GUILD computer teacher in their December 2019 issue. 

Beth has led two Summer Computer Camps for Kids down in the island missions. We are making plans already for our third camp this coming summer. 

A HEART-FELT THANKS TO THOSE WHO SO GENEROUSLY HELPED....

NOTE: I HAVE NO CATHEDRAL HOMILY TODAY TO PUBLISH
Archbishop Kurtz will preside instead at the 12:00 Mass.

........MAKE THIS ANOTHER SPECIAL ISLAND CHRISTMAS

candy, toys, school lunch snacks, clothes, books and school supplies

Scrubbed, combed and dressed-up,  island children praying before opening their presents. 

ST. BENEDICT DAY NURSERY AND CHILDREN’S HOME 

December 6, 2019

Dear Fr. Ron and other kind helpers

On behalf of St.Benedict Day Nursery and Children’s Home

I wish to say: Thank you so much for your kind and caring gifts for our children.

The Slide (see picture below), Goodies,Candies, other food products and cash. We are extremely thankful for your kind assistance.

A little note: Some of the children, staff (and myself) contracted the terrible flu virus a few weeks ago.Thank God, we are all much better now. All the children are back to school except for one boy- to be better to attend school next week,

God bless you again and again

Yours truly,

Sr. Nyra Anne Pajotte O. Carm.

Administrator, St. Benedict’s Day Nursery

And Children’s Home

The new sliding board replacement for the old cracked and broken one.  


Holding up the school lunch snacks, crackers, cookie packets, Vienna sausage, tuna fish, cookie mix, lots of Christmas candy, some toys and a little cash for other needed items. 

Sister Nyra Anne, administrator, on the left and Sister Carmen on the right. 

SAINT MARY'S SCHOOL AT THE CATHEDRAL
with Sister Carmen

DIOCESAN CHRISTMAS STREET FAIR

Many of the kids of the diocese will receive a toy at the diocesan  Christmas Street Fair.  Some of these bears will go there and some to the kids in need at three of the parishes. 

I have instructed that several of the other really good toys should go to some of the "poorest of the poor" kids in places like Bottomtown.  


BISHOP, PRIESTS, DEACONS, SISTERS AND PASTORAL STAFF

Twenty-five insulated lunch bags filled with useful personal items, along with a little personal cash, will go the bishop, priests, deacons, Sisters and diocesan lay staff. 

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE


I have one more box for last-minute gifts that I plan to send down a little closer to Christmas. (Cash donations, however, can be transmitted in minutes.) When that box is filled and shipped, Santa will have given all his has for this year! 



I'VE ALREADY STARTED ON EASTER 

At Christmas, I focus on the main island of Saint Vincent.
At Easter, I focus on the four outer islands.

HAPPY 59th BIRTHDAY TODAY



Bishop Gerard County, C.S.Sp.
Bishop of Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines