Pictures of St. Georges Event

We have posted some pictures of the Easter Dinner at St. Georges. Several of the J2A and Rite 13 kids participated. Enjoy the pictures.

Ongoing Info for J2A

• All groups will stay together next Fall when we restart the groups in September,  whether they have been Confirmed or having done the Rite-13 Ceremony.  Rite-13 and j2a groups are together for TWO YEARS before moving to the next stage in the program.
• Looking into a FUNDRAISER in the summer for the 2010 Pilgrimage.
• The Emmanuel Church Calendar will be coming out this summer which will include the J2A Calendar.
• The 2010 Pilgrimage is coming soon! As a group, we need to look at the best time frame for this event.
• Next J2A/Rite-13 Parent Meeting – Wednesday, Sept.2nd at 7 pm (date to be confirmed).

Schedule update

Good evening all! Here’s a brief update:

The j2a group met with Peter this past Sunday to review the how’s and why’s of Confirmation. He is going to be spending more time with the group as the weeks get closer to the date of Confirmation (Saturday, May 9th at 10 am at the Cathedral in Providence).

NOTE-

THERE WILL BE NO j2a CLASS (OR ALTERNATE ACTIVITY) THIS SUNDAY DUE TO ONE OF THE LEADERS BEING AWAY. *I apologize for the change in the calendar at this late date.

The Rite-13 group IS MEETING this Sunday at 9 AM…We are postponing the alternate activity for now…I hope to see everyone there this week!

Here are all the upcoming changes to the calendar *to keep everyone informed and “in the know!”

1) No j2a group this weekend. No 9 am class and no alternate activity. (One of the leaders is away.)

2) The Rite-13 group is meeting at 9 am this weekend, no alternate activity.

3) j2a will be sponsoring coffee hour on 3/22 (A reminder!)

4) No j2a or Rite-13 group on 3/29 on the day of the blood drive.

5) Wed, April 29 from 7-8 pm is the next joint j2a/Rite-13 Parent Meeting at the church

6) Sun, May 17 from 9-9:50 am is the final j2a/Rite-13 Parent Meeting at the church.

I will be at coffee hour this weekend if anyone has any questions or concerns…please come find me!

Peace,

Carol Mowatt

Diocesan Youth “30 Hour Famine”

When: February 28 -March1 Where: Grace Church, 175 Mathewson Street, Providence

Information: For All 6-12th graders in the Diocese of RI (with a 21+ chaperone). Living into the passage “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me”, we will fast for 30 hours to combat world hunger by raising funds and awareness.

Contact: visit www.30hourfamine.org for more information, or talk to your youth leader. Youth Leaders RSVP to Mary Ann Kolakowski 274-4500 by Feb 22nd

Updated Schedule

An updated schedule has been posted on our Schedule page. Check it out for all the activities.

Pizza Fundraiser

Emmanuel Church’s Journey to Adulthood Program is sponsoring our 4th Annual Pizza Fundraiser.

Enjoy Pizza B 4 the Fast! (Lent is right around the corner…)

These delicious pizzas are made with Caserta’s pizza pie crust. You can select from 4 different varieties.  These pizzas can be eaten right away or frozen for a later date!

Proceeds from the sales will go to the Journey to adulthood 2010 Holy Pilgrimage.

Orders will be taken through Monday, Feburary 16th. Pick-up and delivery will be Saturday, February 21st (starting at 1PM) and February 22nd (after the services)

You can place your pizza order on-line or order forms are available in the Narthex at Emmanuel.

Fr. Misgivings

Dave Kane as Fr. Misgivings

A very special event will take place in the parish hall on Friday, November 21 at 7:30 PM.  To benefit the Journey to Adulthood teen program, we’ve invited Fr. Misgivings to address our community about what it means to be Catholic.  This one-man show, by Dave Kane, is very well known across the state, and we look forward to hosting it.  Tickets are just $15, and can be purchased through the office.  Come support the teens of the church and have a few laughs while you’re at it.

Scrabble for J2A St Paul’s Pawtucket

First Ever (they think) Diocesan Wide
Scrabble Tournament!
Sunday, November 16
2 – 4 pm
St. Paul’s Church
50 Park Place
Pawtucket
728-4300/ www.stpaulspawtucket.org
$10 adults/ $5 children under 10 and seniors or $25 per family
Prizes and bragging rights for the winners!
A fund-raiser for Journey to Adulthood

Our First Week!

A new year has officially started folks! Lots of enthusiasm and energy…new relationships to be made. We now have TWO groups meeting simultaneously at 9AM. The former Rite-13 group, now the older j2A group has ‘graduated’ to a new room in the parish hall and our new Rite-13 group is meeting in the middle room (with a great new wall and door! Who needs a doorknob – kidding!) We had a great turnout for our first week…I am looking forward to next week when we really start to get into the meat and potatoes of the program (no, we are not serving meat and potatoes for snacks, at least not until we get into the Hunger Awareness class, which was very eye opening last year for the teens! Actually it was chicken fingers and white rice…)

Next week we will have our j2a teens providing Coffee Hour for the congregation, what better way to get to know them a little better and hear about the what outreach activities we are planning for the upcoming year.  We have a great bunch of teens, really good kids. It was amazing to see them this morning coming into the parish hall, walking into a different meeting room. They REALLY are a “group” now, it makes my heart sing to see how far they have come together over the past year. The leaders for this group will remain the same as the teens move long into the new curriculum. Alicia Lyon led the group today, checking-in with everyone and then working together on writing a prayer. Wait until you see the t-shirts they created last year…Look for them at next week’s coffee hour!

We are very fortunate to have John Davidson and Sarah Emmett joining us to lead the newly created Rite-13 group, our sixth and seventh graders who are starting on the Journey to Adulthood…hard to believe! Where does the time go? I also lead this group and I am so excited to see the growth of these young members of our congregation over the next two years. We need to capture this all in pictures…a digital camera is being requested. Any donations?? Today was a day to use “yes” or “no” questions to learn about the leaders and each other. Lots of great questions, both serious and silly, but we are just at the doorstep of this journey. Next week we will begin to get into some of the basic curriculum.

As the leaders confirm the curriculum for the upcoming weeks, we will post the topic ahead of time whenever possible, being sensitive to the concerns of parents brought forward this year as well as last year. I would ask that before you have your child miss a class due to content, you talk to the leaders of the class about your concern, maybe at coffee hour or email them if that is beter for you? Or you can catch me at coffee hour or email me if you would prefer.

I have an updated contact list coming out for both groups, but here are the email addresses of the leaders:

Carol Mowatt (Coordinator of J2A Program, RIte-13 leader)   cam61@cox.net

Alicia Lyon (j2a leader)      alyon@ccri.edu

Jim Perry (j2a leader)         jpbio@comcast.net

John Davidson (Rite-13 leader)   johndav_1@yahoo.com

Sarah Emmett (Rite-13 leader)    semmett82@yahoo.com

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments. More to come…much more to come!

Peace,

Carol Mowatt

Schedule

A schedule page has been added. You will find dates from the Fall 2008 J2A Calendar there.