Mini Vinnies

Prayer garden

Our current mission is to create our very own prayer garden. We are currently putting together our plans and looking at lots of images for inspiration.

Letters to the lonely

During one of our Mini Vinnies meetings we started to discuss how people around the world can be lonely and not have a chance to chat to others like we do each day. We then decided we could do something about that. We found a company called letters to the lonely. We then created our very own cards and wrote letters to help people around the world feel a little bit happier. We discussed how Jesus and God know all our names and its important to remind people no matter what someone is thinking of you and looking out for you.

Reverse Advent Calendar

Throughout advent we wanted to try and help people less fortunate than us. We decided a reverse advent calendar was the best way to do this. We created a presentation to show to the school to show them the importance of our mission. We linked our mission to the Catholic Social Teaching value of solidary, standing by those in need and treating them as our brothers and sisters.

Wait a minute its advent!

We couldn’t wait to be involved in the Youth Ministries Team advent celebrations. We created our own video for Wait a Minute it’s advent. We loved having time to reflect on the gospel for the day and thinking about meaning behind it. We were the 3rd Wednesday of advent and spoke all about Our Lady.

Prayer Bags

Our first mission as Mini Vinnies was to create prayer bags for our local parish to share with the parishioners. We included three different prayer cards, a candle and a set of rosary beads. We discussed how we use Rosary beads to pray the Rosary. The children then took these to Father Shaun and the Chaplain at St Bedes.