Well for those of you who dont have facebook and haven't been stalking my pictures of life in St.Francis...Here is some for ya...this is a photo of my 3 community members.
My community members are different but they are all pretty cool. Mike is working at the local radio station, which is a big thing. KINI FM 96.9 is how the natives get their information about news, deaths, announcements around the reservation. Maggie works with Religious Ed too but in Rosebud and Neil works with music in masses and during Religious Education.Things have been going a bit slow especially with Religious Education. I have started teaching some classes in Spring Creek and St. Francis but hopefully attendance will rise pretty soon, apparently everything runs a bit slower and so does attendance.. There has been conflict with the kids being released during the school time, which has been taking place for the past years. This past year, St.Francis Indian school receive low test scores and wants to eliminate the religion classes that is just for one hour per week for grades 3rd-6th to try to increase the numbers of the scores. Which is NUTS!! I mean one hour every week away from school work will not hurt a person academically but really feed the soul of a child in religious ed. ALSO its not like it is forced either way, is it ONLY with parent permission that they are able to go... Hopefully we can get this running soon, if not my job will be really really slow! We and all the people who work for St.Francis Mission are praying that there is a resolution to this conflict at the moment.
This is St.Charles Borromero church in St.Francis, SD and yes its really PURPLE!! :) I shall post more pictures of the inside when all is done. The paintings and the windows have been restored, so the only thing we are waiting for is statues to come back in...
Ofcourse every city/town has to have a water tower..and here is St.Francis water tower ----------------------------------------->
Mike who took most of our pictures gets some really good shots! So I gotta give him some credits.
Will post more pictures about our adventures next!
-Moni
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