A Community In Service To Others
Contact: Mrs. Claudia Kane Munson at munson@stodilia.org
St. Odilia School students and staff are called to share God’s love with others. As we look at the ways God loves us, we see how God wants us to love each other. We must be willing to lay aside what we are doing and happily help others. We are called to show others God’s love and mercy. We are called to put others’ needs before our own, making our world a place of love and justice for all people. St. Odilia School students and staff are committed to sharing God’s love through our willingness to reach out to those in need of God’s touch. One way we do this is through our involvement in and commitment to service. Many school service projects include the entire school community while others are planned and carried out at specific grade levels. We are called to walk in the path of Christ, reaching out to God’s people and praying so that all people may know God’s desire for them to lead lives filled with care and love.
2011 - 2012 All School Service Projects
- Students/Faculty brought in money in order to package meals for Impact Lives, which provides food for starving children in the world
- Thanksgiving food drive (serving various communities) in collaboration with The Franciscan Brothers of Peace
- Spiritual Adoption Baby Shower: students/staff brought in new baby items and filled baby bottles with change. Donations given to Women’s Life Center
- Students donated extra Halloween candy to Appalachian Mission and Joseph’s Coat
- Annual Warm Winter Clothing Drive – donations brought to Joseph’s Coat
- Catholic Schools Week Food collection for Our Lady of Guadelupe in West St. Paul
- Students donated gently used clothing to Kidz Klozet for families in need
- Soles4Souls: shoe donation drive to aid the people of Haiti
- School families brought in items to fill baskets for the Parish Festival’s Silent Auction
- Donated gently used school supplies to school children in various local parish schools
2011 - 2012 Grade Level Service Projects
- All grade levels - Praying daily for all God’s people, that they may know the loving hands of God through the care of others here on earth
- Preschool - Students participated in numerous food drives
- Preschool - collected and donated item to Birthright at Christmas
- Kindergarten students - brought in hats and mittens for children at Sharing and Caring Hands in Minneapolis.
- 1st grade students - donated toys at Christmas for children at Sharing and Caring Hands
- 2nd grade students - made Christmas Cards for people at Lakeridge Nursing Home
- 2nd grade students - Held a ‘Baby Shower’ (rather than having a Christmas party) which provided needed items for pregnant women in crisis and in need of assistance through Birthright
- 2nd grade students - Brought in Lenten almsgiving to benefit Birthrite
- 3rd grade students - sang and made cards for Senior Citizens attending Sara’s Table
- 3rd grade students - Greeted parishioneers at Sunday Mass
- 3rd grade students – brought in items for the Animal Humane Shelter in St. Paul
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders - participated in Mathathon which benefits St. Jude Hospital - over $4,000.00 raised
- Mr. Berger’s art classes - made bowls and sold them as part of the Empty Bowls Project. Money raised from the sale was donated to local food shelf
- Various grades - students took part in the annual Toys for Tots at Christmas
- 6th grade students - Operation Christmas Child
- 7th grade - students brought in toiletry items for the Secure Waiting Space For Men in Minneapolis
- 8th grade students - Valegram Day proceeds were donated to Guillain-Barre’ Syndrome Foundation in honor of 8th grade students, R.S.
- 8th grade students - presented the annual Living Stations Of The Cross for the St. Odilia parish community
- 8th grade students - Sewed shoulder bags and filled them with toiletries for those who are homeless
- 8th grade students – Lenten offering of food items to local food shelf
- Middle school students - decorated place mats and made cards for the elderly at Little Sisters of the Poor in St. Paul
- Middle school students - brought in items to fill Easter Baskets for those in need at various places including Joseph’s Coat, Lake Owasso Group Homes and Appalachia
- Middle School students - Students brought in Christmas gifts to help families in need during Christmas