Church Builders Bread of Life Fundraiser

This will be a fun filled evening with Church Builders like you. There will be a wonderful catered dinner by JUMP, a no-host bar, a silent auction, and inspiring talks by Idaho writer Susan Swetnam and founder of The Kizito Family in Haiti, Sister Paésie. The purpose of this event is to inspire Church Builders to be faithful servants as shown by the examples of Our Blessed Mother and the Holy Saints. Fundraising at event to support Church Builders charity projects in developing countries of Haiti, Tanzania, Uganda, Pakistan, Vietnam and Zambia.

Idaho writer, and speaker, Susan Swetnam, will be giving a short talk at this year's event. Also speaking at this year's event will be Sister Paésie. Sister Paésie is the founder of The Kizito Family in Haiti.

Support for The Kizito Family will be the top fundraising goal at this year's Church Builders Bread of Life Fundraiser.

John 6:35 is our inspired scripture verse:

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.

The gala will be held in the Pioneer Room of JUMP in downtown Boise. Come and be inspired by the power of the Holy Spirit.

There will be a silent auction with many wonderful items available for bidding. You can also purchase raffle tickets here or at the door. We will have some awesome raffle prizes. (You must be present at the event to win)

Come on out and join your friends in support of Church Builder and its mission to spread the love of Christ through small acts of charity. Let's work together to build the Kingdom of Heaven. Thank you and God bless!

Parking at JUMP:

To park on site, pull into the structure off Myrtle. There will be two gates to enter, take the one that goes UP to levels 3 and 4. Parking is $3.00 per hour, up to 5 hours-your max charge would be $15.00 for the full day.

IMPORTANT: If you are registering more than one Church Builder, please email Marty at [email protected] the first and last name of all on your guest list so we can have name tags with bid numbers ready to go upon arrival and help us speed up check in and avoid lines. Thank you!

After various missions around the world, Sister Paésie's service as a Missionary of Charity took her to Haiti in 1999. While her work there as a member of the Community continued, Sister felt she was being called to leave and begin another religious community. It would be ten years before she would actually do so. In 2017, with a calling to protect street kids, among the most vulnerable of the vulnerable, from hunger, gang violence, vice, and Godlessness, Sister left the Missionaries of Charity to begin Kizito Family, a new religious community named in memory of a fourteen year old Ugandan martyr. On June 3, 2018, the Kizito Family received approval from the Archbishop of Port au Prince as a Pious Association of the Faithful. This step is the first to establishing a religious community at the diocesan level. Because this recognition was given for a period of six years ad experimentumit is subject to renewal. Sister remains under her vows as a Missionary of Charity.

In Cite Soleil, a slum area, street children can attend the free schools set up there for them, as can those in the Village de Dieu, where the religious community has one school. Five home, located in Delmas, Lizon, Sarthe, and Village des Repatries in Cite Soleil, provide shelter and a safe haven for those who have neither. Additionally, the Kizito Family ministers in prisons and in locations according to circumstances and need. Currently that takes members of the Community to a public square where children numbering about one thousand have taken refuge. It is in the poorest and most dire and desperate of situations that the Kizito Family lives out its mission and serves.

Sister Paesie’s own words best echo the persistent calling she heard and was unable to ignore:

“After eighteen years in Haiti, I had become increasingly aware of the importance and urgency of supporting children and young people in slums in order to protect them against the dangers associated with violence, the immorality and corruption which surrounds them, and which too often sweeps them along like a torrent which may seem irresistible."

After various missions around the world, Sister Paésie's service as a Missionary of Charity took her to Haiti in 1999. While her work there as a member of the Community continued, Sister felt she was being called to leave and begin another religious community. It would be ten years before she would actually do so. In 2017, with a calling to protect street kids, among the most vulnerable of the vulnerable, from hunger, gang violence, vice, and Godlessness, Sister left the Missionaries of Charity to begin Kizito Family, a new religious community named in memory of a fourteen year old Ugandan martyr. On June 3, 2018, the Kizito Family received approval from the Archbishop of Port au Prince as a Pious Association of the Faithful. This step is the first to establishing a religious community at the diocesan level. Because this recognition was given for a period of six years ad experimentumit is subject to renewal. Sister remains under her vows as a Missionary of Charity.

In Cite Soleil, a slum area, street children can attend the free schools set up there for them, as can those in the Village de Dieu, where the religious community has one school. Five home, located in Delmas, Lizon, Sarthe, and Village des Repatries in Cite Soleil, provide shelter and a safe haven for those who have neither. Additionally, the Kizito Family ministers in prisons and in locations according to circumstances and need. Currently that takes members of the Community to a public square where children numbering about one thousand have taken refuge. It is in the poorest and most dire and desperate of situations that the Kizito Family lives out its mission and serves.

Sister Paesie’s own words best echo the persistent calling she heard and was unable to ignore:

“After eighteen years in Haiti, I had become
increasingly aware of the importance and urgency of supporting children and
young people in slums in order to protect them against the dangers associated
with violence, the immorality and corruption which surrounds them, and which too often sweeps them along like a torrent which may seem irresistible."

Idaho writer, and speaker, Susan Swetnam, will be giving a short talk at this year's event. Since childhood, writing has been a center of her life. Susan is the author of fourteen books and counting and dozens of magazine articles in national magazines (Gourmet, Mademoiselle, Walking), regional magazines (Journal of the West), little/literary magazines, and academic journals. She taught advanced writing classes (along with classes in narrative theory, history of the novel, and Western American literature) at Idaho State University for forty years; many of her students have gone on to careers as writers and/or teachers of writing.

Susan's earliest published work included both personal essays and academic studies of how people construct and consume stories. During the past two decades, creative nonfiction writing with a spiritual dimension has become her predominant interest, sparking seven more-recent books and shorter articles in a variety of publications, including the major Catholic family magazine St. Anthony Messenger. Each of these works considers the rich implications of a particular aspect of everyday life: teaching, aging and caring for the aging, craft (in the form of knitting and writing), celebrating holidays, retiring into a fruitful new way of life, etc.

Though Susan writes for Catholic presses, she is always careful to craft her work as broadly applicable to readers of varied spiritual/religious perspectives, believing that those of us who bring a reverent attitude toward the created world, a cooperative orientation toward human relationships, and an open, curious perspective to mysteries beyond rational ken share more than our differences might suggest.

Top Golf Gift Card valued at $100

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Jack's Urban Meeting Place (JUMP), The Pioneer Room, 1000 W. Myrtle Street, Boise, United States