October 9, 2009

Worth Mentioning

Gifts and other items available

Want to know “How to be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job?” Or where to buy Springerle Cookies made by the Benedictine Sisters at Ferdinand?

Both items are contained in the latest issue of Monastic Greetings, a catalog of products made by abbeys, convents, monasteries and hermitages.

The book on “How to be a Monastic” is from South Dakota’s Blue Cloud Abbey, writted by Benedicte Brother Benet Tvedten.

For a catalog, call (800) 472-0425 or visit www.MonasteryGreetings.com

Workshop: Nurturing Faith and Family Life

The Center for Congregations will present Diana Garland, in a workshop on “Nurturing Faith and Family Life,” in Evansville, Thursday, Oct. 29.

The workshop is intended to lead participants in exploring how to develop a vibrant ministry to and through families. Garland believes that community service is more important than anything else congregations can do to build the faith of families.

Call (812) 618-2012 or see www.centerforcongregations.org

St. Mary’s verified as Level II Pediatric Trauma Center

St. Mary’s Medical Center has been awarded verification as a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons — Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT). St. Mary’s is the first and only ACS-COT verified Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in the region. The ACS-COT verification is the gold standard for trauma program verifications.

St. Mary’s is one of only four Pediatric Trauma Centers in the state of Indiana and one of 20 ACS-COT verified Level II Pediatric Trauma Centers in the United States.

Because of the resources committed to pediatric trauma care, 94 percent of injured children treated at St. Mary’s received all their care locally at St. Mary’s with referral back to their home community for continued follow up care.

St. Mary’s is also an ACS-COT verified Level II Trauma Center for adults. The new verification as a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center broadens the services provided to injured children in the tri-state.

Food for the Poor suggests new tradition

Food For The Poor suggests that observing “40 Days Of Thanks” with your church, school or organization will prepare your family’s hearts for gratitude at Thanksgiving.

Starting Oct. 17, “40 Days Of Thanks” will encourage individuals to save 50 cents or more each day for 40 days to help the poor. On Thanksgiving Day, after the turkeys have been carved and the dishes cleaned, donations throughout the country will be collected, combined and counted to build homes for the destitute in the Caribbean and Latin America.

In a news release, Angel Aloma, executive director of Food For The Poor, said nearly one in two children live in poverty, and “40 Days Of Thanks” is “a way to encourage spiritual reflection, the chance to make daily sacrifices, and to help save one child, one family at a time.”

Aloma said nearly one in two children lives in poverty. Food For the Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, is working to break the cycle of poverty that has ensnared generations.