Greetings to our DreamMakers!
I hope these days of summer find you well. Here at St. Joseph’s Indian School, we are busy preparing for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year, which begins August 13. Two days before, we will begin welcoming students, processing them through our health center, checking them in and acquainting them with their houseparents so they are ready to go for the first day of school. As you can imagine, a great deal of preparation goes into all of this.
On another note, we recently took two of our high school girls on a donor breakfast trip to New York. Generally, we would have a donor luncheon, but on this occasion, we switched the meal to breakfast. This was obviously different but also beneficial in the sense that it gave our students more time to see the sights in New York.
Earlier in the summer, we had a handful of our high school students travel on an exchange program with our sister school in Handrup, Germany. The school in Handrup, like St. Joseph’s in Chamberlain, is an entity of the Priests of the Sacred Heart. I hope some of the students in Handrup will have the opportunity to come to South Dakota next year to meet all of our students and staff at St. Joseph’s. Having schools in collaboration is a wonderful tool to generate new insights and help further enhance the education of students. None of this would be possible without your generous and continuous support.
As we approach another school year, I will remind you of our 48th Annual Powwow on September 21. As we get closer to the next powwow and the start of the school year, I look forward to sharing with you many more exciting events our students will have the opportunity to participate in. Thanks again for all you do to help make our mission thrive.
Peace and Blessings,
Fr. Greg Schill, SCJ
Chaplain
Read the e-version of the August 2024 Dreamer newsletter here.
Stories from our Lakota Indian School
At St. Joseph’s Indian School, the fun never falls … It just keeps on rising! Especially when Native American children attend Rising Eagle Day Camp! Speaking of rising … We experienced a RISE in fun and a RISE in our camper numbers! This year Rising Eagle Day Camp served 764 children. That is an increase of 34 kids compared to the 2023 camp season.
On Thursday, May 16, the 21 seventh-grade students of St. Joseph’s Indian School prayed and smudged before embarking on the trip that has become a rite of passage.
St. Joseph’s Indian School Freebie List
As a DreamMaker, you are incredibly kind and generous to support St. Joseph’s Indian School monetarily every month. To say thank you, the following downloads, quizzes and seasonal items are yours to enjoy … for FREE!
Food Fund Quiz
Do you think you know a lot about what it takes to feed 200 Lakota kids every year? Find out now!
Welcome Back to School Cards
Kids will be back to school soon! Send a card now so they’ll be welcomed back with your kind words!
Full List of Freebies
That’s not all! St. Joseph’s has many more special items for you. View the full list here!