St. Mary’s and St. Peter’s College Connection
… Remembering and encouraging our members in college!

What is it?
This ministry is our way of communicating with the college students from our parishes. This communication happens twice a year and involves sending a “shoe box care package” to our students before exam time each semester.

WE NEED STUDENT’S ADDRESSES:
If you have a son or daughter from the parish in college and would like them to receive a care package, you must give us his or her current mailing address. We can only send the packages to students whose current mailing addresses are given to us. Email, mail or call them into the Youth Ministry Office or drop them into the Sunday Collection basket labeled “College Connection.”

There are two ways you can help:
1. Make a $$ donation to help defray the cost of postage to mail these packages. Checks can be made payable to “Youth Ministry” and put in an envelope marked “Youth Ministry-College Connection and dropped in the collection baskets at either parish or mailed to the Youth Ministry Office.

2. Choose several items below and bring them to Church with you on the weekends of November 12-13 and November 19-20 and put them in the box in the gathering area. Or you may drop off your items at either parish office or St. Peter’s school office—make sure you indicate the items are for College Connection.

Appropriate Items Include:

Wrapped Candy
Gum, mints Individually wrapped cookies
Snack size crackers & cheese Kool-Aid/Crystal Light
Coffee, tea or cocoa packets Snack size chips and pretzels
Pop Tarts Granola bars/Fruit bars
Microwave popcorn Stickers and Stamps
Raisins, trail mix Fruit roll ups
Cup of soup, Ramen Dried Fruit
Instant cereal packets Prayer Cards
Individual Kleenex Highlighters, pens, pencils, note pads

Use your imagination!!!

Please AVOID: Any heavy items, perishable items, large shoeboxes, items larger than a shoebox, or any medications.

Please drop off items at Church on the weekends of November 12-13 and November 19-20 or deliver your items to either parish office or St. Peter’s School Office by November 28.

You are also welcome and invited to help prepare the care packages (sorting, packing, mailing) on Monday, November 28 at 6:00pm in St. Peter’s Cafeteria. Families are welcome! Great service opportunity for youth! (It’s fun, too)

Please call Maureen Kavanaugh, Youth Minister, at 262-284-2102 ext. 15 if you have any questions. Thank you for your support!

Youth Ministry Office – 1802 N. Wisconsin Street – Port Washington, WI 53074 – portyouth@catholic.org www.portyouth.org