St. Ann Catholic Church

aUGUSTA, mi

Youth Faith Formation

Summary of Religious Education 2020-2021
- Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: For Families who have children who have not yet received their First Holy Communion (3-7 year olds)
  
  1 dedicated Atrium space for both level 1 (3-6-year-olds) and level 2 (6-7-year-olds)
  
  CGS atrium offered at multiple times throughout the week. Call the religious education office to schedule a time
  
  Parents will be observing and participating with child(ren)
  
  Multiple ages in space at one time with different presentations available
  
  Sessions offered weekly on a year-round cycle with multi-week breaks to provide roughly 35 sessions
  
  St Ann Good Shepherd Atrium Youtube channel
- For Families with children who have made First Holy Communion (3rd-8th grade; 8-13 year olds)
  
  A monthly gathering for whole family participation
  
  Catechists assigned to support and work with families
  
  Online additional curriculum through My Catholic Faith Delivered
  
  Materials and resources provided for at-home use
  
  Feedback solicited for making improvements and accountability
  
  Following a liturgical calendar rather than an academic calendar (December through November
Atrium Youtube Video
- The Mission of St. Ann Parish Whole Family Catechesis
  
  Family faith formation recognizes that parents know their children best and therefore are uniquely equipped to hand on the faith. Family-based catechesis is a relationship-focused religious education. We have found a real need for family-based catechesis. It is not enough to know about God, but we must love God and have a relationship with Him. The two great commandments Jesus Christ gives us tells us to “love God and love your neighbor as yourself.” We exercise our love of God by loving our neighbors. Our first neighbors and first obligation is to our families.
  
  St. Ann Parish Religious Education Program works to evoke and mature in each person an intimate relationship with the Person of Jesus Christ, a love of the Church He founded, and a lifelong process of conversion and missionary witness. It endeavors to develop this relationship with Christ through the liturgy and the sacraments, the promises, and commandments contained in the Good News of His Gospel message, as well as through prayer and service. This effort is accomplished within the context of the student’s family with support from the parish community. “True education is directed towards the formulation of the human person in view of his final end and the good of that society to which he belongs and in the duties of which he will, as an adult, have a share.” (Declaration on Christian Education, 1)
- Registration
  
  Click here for 2020 Registration
  
  Please click on the above registration form and submit. You can also have a form emailed to you.
  
  Confirmation & First Communion classes have separate registration. Email Bobby or patv@stannaugusta.org for more information
  
  Please make payments to "St Ann Catholic Church" and give it to the Director of Religious Ed or parish office, (not to the teacher or in the collection basket). If there are any problems, email bobbyk@stannaugusta.org.
  
  You can pay online by clicking the link.
- Curriculum
  
  The curriculum for each grade focuses on 6 subjects: Creed, Sacraments, Moral Development, Prayer, Saints, and Scripture. All grades use doctrine from the Catechism of the Catholic Church plus vocabulary in order to teach these 6 subjects. This Religious Education curriculum is used for the whole diocese of Kalamazoo in parish CCD programs and the Catholic Schools and was last updated in 2014. Find a pdf of the full curriculum here.
  
  As of this 2018, the diocese of Kalamazoo has put out a new compact Parish Curriculum
  
  Here is our Current Family Catechesis curriculum
- Contact Us
  
  Bobby Kinkela
  
  Associate Director of Religious Education
  
  269-731-0295; 731-4721 EXT 50 to leave message
  bobbykstannaugusta.org
- Religious Education Documents
  
  RE Handbook_2019
  
  Calendar: Good Shepherd (3 year olds to 2nd grade)
  
  Calendar: Whole Family Catechesis (CCD 3rd-8th grade)
  
  Calendar: Adult Faith Formation
  
  Family Catechesis Monthly Themes 2019-20
  
  WFC Nightly Schedule
  
  RE NS December 19th 2018
  
  RE NS February 20_19
  
  RE NS May 2019
- My Parish App
  
  Religious Education is using My Parish App to stay in touch with parents. To get the My Parish App go to: myparishapp.com/appstore or Text App to 88202. We will use this App like the public schools use “Remind” as a way of communicating events at Pack the House and general events at Religious Education
  
  Then search for and select St Ann Augusta parish
  
  Tap the “groups” button
  
  Join the “Religious Education” group
- Religious Education Newsletters
  
  RE NS October 25th 2017
  RE NS December 20th 2017
  RE NS February 21st 2018
  RE NS May 2, 2018
  RE NS November 1st 2018
  RE NS December 19th 2018
  RE NS February 20th 2019
  Re NS May 1 2019