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NEW Program to Plant Seeds for Vocations via Serra Venturing in Catholic High Schools

Many Catholic priests and men and women religious serving the Church today began their discernment, or found support for their budding vocation interest, during High School and/or in Scouting.

Serrans across the country are invited to be part of a NEW movement to offer Serra awareness and discernment opportunities for youth in Catholic High Schools, through Serra Club chartered Venturing crews.

The Serra Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and their Diocesan Catholic Committee on Scouting (CCS) formed the first Serra Club chartered Catholic Venturing Crew for students at West Catholic High School

in Grand Rapids, with matching funds provided by a Serra International Foundation grant, for initial start-up costs.

Learn more and get started today….

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Congratulations are in order for Dennis Leiber, the Serra Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Diocesan Catholic Committee on Scouting on forming the first Serra Club chartered Catholic Venturing Crew for students at West Catholic High school.

In 2006, the Serra International Foundation provided a $7,000 grant to fund the establishment of Serra Club chartered Venturing Crews or Sea Scouting units in Catholic High Schools.

Each Serra Club which charters a Venturing Crew will receive funding for one half of the expenses. Crew 2207 of West Catholic, chartered by the Serra Club of Grand Rapids, with 30 male and female members ages 15-18, is the first unit launched under the new Serra Club program.

The Serra International Foundation funds are a matching grant administered by the USA Council Vocations Committee to reimburse expenses of establishing a Venturing Crew in a Catholic High School.

The units chartered by Serra Clubs provide programs that combine a vocation discernment focus with the benefits of belonging to a unit of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) within a high school extracurricular group.

The success of the program will be based on offering quality programs that are not available to most Catholic High Schools while reinforcing the values and skills taught there. It further gives a venue to make ethical choices, acquire leadership skills, advance knowledge and skills in the areas of high adventure, sports, arts, hobbies and earn a vocation oriented Catholic Scouting emblem.

For more information related to a Serra Club forming a Venturing Crew in a Catholic high school contact Homer Radford, Coordinator of the Serra Club/Venturing Program 816-356-1760, hradford2@comcast.net or David Gironda, Sr., Associate Coordinator and Field Director, dcgironda@gmail.com. 

 

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