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Families with Children


Backpack/School Supplies Collection
This year's goal of 75 backpacks and school supplies will be collected for students in need in the Scottsdale Unified School District as well as Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation. We will collect until Sunday, August 28 when we will have the annual Blessing of Backpacks.  At that time personal backpacks, phones, laptops and tablets, as well as the donated items, will be blessed. What can you bring? 
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backpacks - pencils and pens - pink erasers - spiral notebooks - binders - highlighters - markers - composition notebooks - expo markers - 3x5 index cards - rulers - crayons - scissors - colored pencils - glue sticks - pocket folders - wide and college ruled paper

How You Can Help
  • Teacher support in Sunday school and Chapel
  • Music leader
  • Help plan and participate in events

FAMILY MINISTRY:
  • Holiday pageant support
  • Help organize outreach and family events
  • Support children and youth at Chapel Rock Camp as well as Mission Trips
  • Be a prayer partner for a child or youth
  • Pray for our children and youth daily
 
Contact Suzette Woods for additional information.​

​Click here for an eye-opening article by Jana Sundin, the Canon for Children's Ministries of the Diocese of AZ, titled Killing Sunday School...The Bad News and the Good News in Sunday School Trends.
Saint Anthony on the Desert ~ 12990 E. Shea Boulevard ~ Scottsdale, AZ 85259
480.451.0860 ~ email: communications@st-anthony.net