WHAT'S HAPPENING?
The Altar Server Schedule is now updated for February.
ATTENTION: There will be an altar server training session for new servers and current on the 25th of February at 10:30am! Please join even if you have already been trained.
The HHS mandate issue remains contentious although the non-compromise compromise was rejected and a spokesman of the Administration announced that no further concessions would be considered. More is surely to develop of this. For the latest official word from our bishops, consult their website at www.usccb.org.
Little Rock Diocesan ethicist on bioethical issues wrote a very informative piece for the February 4 Arkansas Catholic. Consult it for more information.
Thank you for taking the time to learn about upcoming news from this Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce Member. Member 2 Member email communications are available to all Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce Members. To learn more about this product and its policies please contact us by calling 870.932.6691
Target Take Charge of Education Program
We receive money from Target REDcard holders who have designated BSS at their charity of choice. If you shopat Target, please log on to Target.com or pick up a credit card (RED card) application at the store. On the application, you can designate Blessed Sacrament School as your school. We receive 1% of all purchases made on that card and it adds up! We currently have 18 people with Target cards. We received $649.79 in August, 2011 and have received at total of $2675.72 since we started the program. Again, spread the word. Once you sign up, just use your Target card to make purchases when you shop at the store. I will keep you updated.
MOTHERHOOD MINISTRY
& PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER
Blessed Sacrament Parish shows its belief in and commitment to the sanctity of life in prayer and with donations of clothing and funds to Motherhood Ministry and the Pregnancy Resource Center.
Motherhood Ministry is housed in the old school building on the south entrance nearest to the Parish Hall. Volunteers assist those in need each Wednesday, 9:30 a.m.—2:00 p.m., when expectant mothers may obtain free maternity clothes and free clothing for children, infancy to Size 14. Motherhood provides: free layettes for newborn babies; free baby formula; free diapers; bassinets/baby beds.
Pregnancy Resource Center provides encouragement to expectant mothers to continue their pregnancies; free ultrasounds; free pregnancy tests; and free
parenting classes. Mothers may earn points toward the purchase of baby items with parenting class
attendance.
Please consider offering your tine, talent and.or to either of these ministries. Contact:
Faye Siebert, 932-6566, for Motherhood Ministry
Barb Young, 932-6644, Pregnancy Resource Center
NOTICE—PLEASE READ
When a name has been on this list for 3 months, please call the Prayer Line, 935-7836 or the Parish Office, 932-2529, and update the request.
Rita Siefert, Susan Tindel,
Virginia Oswald, Corinne Stipati, Larry Hunt, Gerald
Deveney, James Horman, Rosmary Fernandez, Betty
Runnels, Betty Sloan, Jeanine Virgin, Bobby Weaver, Tim
Veteto, Michelle Veteto, Elizabeth Penedo, Julio Penedo,
Aida Rivera, Nikki Amick, Amanda Amick, Brad Edgar, Pat
Austin, Joseph Haddad, Mickey Bridger, Gloria & Jay
Pilbeam, Wayne Long, Teddy Joe Wiggington, Jacqueline
Zipfel, Larry McKinney, Stan McKinney, Kathleen
Marabondo, Matthew Deveney, Sarah Orr, Jose Guerra,
Rosa Ascura, Shelby Ward, Mike Daffron, Fred Neumann,
Jean Rogers, David Erby, Bill Morgan, Jeanine Trevathan,
Mickey Baugh, Dustin Clouse, Shirley Creech, Georgette
Crawford, Maria Casey, Dr. George Roberson, Hayden
Morrison, Jennifer Benson, Jayni Blackburn, Eric Guzman,
Laura Puello, Antony Vazquez, Aida Mendez, Matt
Kueter, Wilma Lensing, Monty May, Floyd Dupwe, Doris
Fitzgerald, Vanita Catalina, Margaret Marzewski, Ann
Marie Dunham, Randy Murray, Sr. Paul Oswle, OSB,
Millie Gain
