Still considering a New Year’s resolution? Decide now to take part in one of Grant Co. Right to Life’s upcoming 2025 activities! 1. Pray for GCRTL’s efforts to bring a Safe Haven Baby Box to Grant County. 2. Help plan a movie night! Join a team to bring the full-length documentary, Unthinkable, by former PP clinic director, Abby Johnson, to a Grant Co. theater. (Or donate to offset costs.) 3. 2/4/25: Participate - from anywhere – in a 6 p.m. GCRTL Zoom meeting. Call for log-in info. 4. 3/1/25: Volunteer at a GCRTL table at a late a.m. Platteville Public Library Involvement Fair. 5. 4/5/25: Attend a free WI RTL Pregnancy Help Center conference in Wausau. By 3/21/25, register at https://www.classy.org/event/2025-pregnancy-help-center-spring-conference/e626057 . 6. Participate in a group to distribute small gifts to nursing home residents. Consider making a walker bag or lap blanket for residents. (GCRTL will provide materials.) For more info., text or call Marge at 608.732.0850 or email [email protected] (NEW address!)

To the Family Promise Staff, Volunteers and Board Members, Thank you so much for everything you have done for me and my family over the last six months. You have touched our lives in ways you will never know. When we came into this program, we were in a really bad time in our lives. I felt so low [and] broken. You guys helped me build myself back up. You gave all of us hope and peace of mind. Thank you for giving us what we needed and more. I will cherish the memories made and the lessons learned. You made me not only a better person, but a better parent. God bless all of you and everything you do for the families in this county that are in need. Thank you again!”

Thank you to everyone who generously gave donations for the flowers and decorations and to everyone who worked to make our church look beautiful during the Christmas season. We are deeply grateful for your support of our parish! God bless.

The 2025 St. Clement Parish calendars are here and can be picked up in the back of church. We wish to extend a big Thank You to Rita Schmitz and Katie Miles of Homeward Bound for once again supplying our calendars for us. This year’s calendars have been donated by them in memory of their dear husband and father, Greg Schmitz, co-owner of Homeward Bound. Greg was a fabulous man of faith, joy and love to family, friends and so generous in our parish and community. Thank You Rita and Katie for your generosity!

We invite you to find help through Retrouvaille, (ret-tro-vi), where husbands and wives are helped to re-discover each other. In Retrouvaille, couples discover they are not alone. There is hope and grace. Madison’s upcoming Retrouvaille program is January 31 – February 2, 2025 at the Green Lake Conference Center. Follow up sessions will be in Madison. Call (920) 369-8836 or check our website at www.helpourmarriage.org Your confidentiality is always respected.

The students of Saint Clement School are participating in a SCRIP WAR competition and would love your help! This contest will continue through Monday, January 1, so be sure to use SCRIP for your Black Friday and Christmas shopping needs! The class that has the most SCRIP sold will earn the opportunity to donate $100 to the charity of their choice. And, if we reach our goal of $130,000 in SCRIP sold during the contest, the students will earn an All-School Movie and Pajama Day! Please encourage all your family and friends to use SCRIP for their gift giving and everyday shopping needs, and don’t forget to write down the school family name that you would like to give your credit to. Thank you for your continued support of our wonderful Catholic school and our amazing students!

Please contact Leigh Boorn at 309-370-6036 or [email protected], if you would be able to make a pan of bars or donate cookies for the Family Faith Formations, Religious Ed., or High School Faith Formations.