Project Bread for Life is a Special CONFIRMATION SERVICE LEARNING PROGRAM provided by Missionaries of the Catholic Medical Missions.
This Service enables Confirmation Candidates in participating parishes the opportunity to learn about the medical, social, and life sustaining necessities of young persons their own age who live in the developing, indigent countries of the Third World; at the same time, students complete their Community Service Hours requirement for Confirmation. Many Confirmation Coordinators / Directors of Religious Education and Faith Formation find this beneficial for both the Students and the Parish. Schools or youth ministries often participate as well!
Once a parish registers to participate, CMMA schedules a Medical Missionary who provides a lecture, video, reading materials, and photos, explaining how young people of indigent marginalized communities in the impoverished developing world live. The particular emphasis is on how sick children with various illnesses require medical attention and specific medications to sustain their lives. This part of the Confirmation Service Learning provides a didactic experience to help young American students understand how different their own lived experience in the United States is from the majority of children throughout the world.
It further seeks to enhance their appreciation and gratitude for the life we share here in America. It demonstrates how the Church labors to provide for those most in need.
The second step, of this Service Learning Program, is that the students who participated in the missionary’s presentation, now help organize and conduct a BREAD SALE to help us raise Funds to buy and distribute medications for children at designated Catholic Medical Missions.
The Bread Sale in the Parish is called PROJECT BREAD FOR LIFE, and is generally conducted the same weekend of the didactic presentation. The aim is to engender a complete PRAXIS; completing required service hours while at the same time growing an understanding of how important it is to be concerned and charitable in an iniquitous human world.
If you wish to learn more, and or to register your Religious Education Students for the CMMA
Service Learning Program, please contact Sr. Dolores Chepiga SSJ at: Team@mma.info
We do hope to work with you and to provide this experience for your Confirmation Students.
