2021 Foundations Youth Ministry Pancake Breakfast | Sunday, January 31, 2021
Pancake Breakfast has been a Foundations tradition for fifteen years. While we cannot be together in Old St. Pat's hall this year, will you help us carry on the tradition?! We invite you to make pancakes for your family, your roommate or your neighbor on Sunday January 31st and donate $5 to Foundations Youth Ministry Worktours.
Pancake Photo Raffle
Take a picture of your pancakes and tag @ospfoundations on Instagram or send a picture to foundations@oldstpats.org so we can enjoy homestyle hotcakes as a church community!
#homestylehotcakes #stilltogether
Everyone who submits a picture by 8 pm on Sunday, January 31 will be entered into a raffle to win a summer weekend (Thurs-Sun) at a house on Miner Lake in Allegan, MI. (Specific dates will be mutually agreed upon by the raffle winner and homeowner.)
Donate to Foundations Worktours
Can you donate $5 the cost of a kid’s Pancake Breakfast ticket to help support Foundations Worktours? As a thank you, all donors will receive an electronic version of “Pancakes and Prayers,” a Foundations cookbook that includes family favorite breakfast recipes and reflections written by our Foundations teens.
What’s Worktour you ask?! Each summer, Foundations travels to various cities around the country to serve others. We spend a week learning about justice, laughing, praying, and building God’s Kingdom. These experiences are truly life-changing and faith-changing. Check out this video from our 2019 Worktours to get a glimpse of these weeks.
We plan to spend four weeks serving this summer, but we need your help to make it happen! All Pancake Breakfast proceeds benefit Foundations Worktours.
Pancake Contest
Think you can make the biggest pancake? The pancake with the weirdest toppings that someone eats? The coolest shaped pancake? Include #homestylehotcakescontest in your picture submission. Foundations teens will vote to determine a winner in each category. Winners in each category will receive a $25 GrubHub gift card.
Worktour Sponsorship
Are you able to give more and want to help sponsor a teen's summer experience? We are so grateful for your support!
Van Sponsor: $75 - Covers 1 tank of gas for our vans. Van Sponsors will receive an Old St. Pat’s Spatula and an automatic entry in the photo raffle.
Site Sponsor: $150 - Covers a volunteer’s week of materials (paint, building materials, gardening supplies, etc.) for our partner agencies. Site Sponsors will receive a Homestyle Hotcakes Kit that includes a mason jar of pancake mix, an Old St. Pat’s spatula, and an automatic entry in the photo raffle.
Meal Sponsor: $250 - Covers one day of meals for the 20 teens and 6 adults on a Worktour. Meal Sponsors will receive a Homestyle Hotcakes Kit that includes a mason jar of pancake mix, an Old St. Pat’s spatula, and an automatic entry in the photo raffle.
Leader Sponsor: $500 - Helps to cover expenses for 1 Worktour Leader. Our trips cannot happen without the generous adults who volunteer a week of their vacation time to mentor teens in service, justice, and faith. Leader Sponsors will receive a Homestyle Hotcakes Kit that includes a mason jar of pancake mix, an Old St. Pat’s spatula, and an automatic entry in the photo raffle. Leader Sponsors will also receive an Old St. Pat’s camping chair.
NOTE: Sponsorships must be received by 1/24 in order to receive your Homestyle Hotcakes kit prior to the event.
Pancake Photo Raffle
Take a picture of your pancakes and tag @ospfoundations on Instagram or send a picture to foundations@oldstpats.org so we can enjoy homestyle hotcakes as a church community!
#homestylehotcakes #stilltogether
Everyone who submits a picture by 8 pm on Sunday, January 31 will be entered into a raffle to win a summer weekend (Thurs-Sun) at a house on Miner Lake in Allegan, MI. (Specific dates will be mutually agreed upon by the raffle winner and homeowner.)
Donate to Foundations Worktours
Can you donate $5 the cost of a kid’s Pancake Breakfast ticket to help support Foundations Worktours? As a thank you, all donors will receive an electronic version of “Pancakes and Prayers,” a Foundations cookbook that includes family favorite breakfast recipes and reflections written by our Foundations teens.
What’s Worktour you ask?! Each summer, Foundations travels to various cities around the country to serve others. We spend a week learning about justice, laughing, praying, and building God’s Kingdom. These experiences are truly life-changing and faith-changing. Check out this video from our 2019 Worktours to get a glimpse of these weeks.
We plan to spend four weeks serving this summer, but we need your help to make it happen! All Pancake Breakfast proceeds benefit Foundations Worktours.
Pancake Contest
Think you can make the biggest pancake? The pancake with the weirdest toppings that someone eats? The coolest shaped pancake? Include #homestylehotcakescontest in your picture submission. Foundations teens will vote to determine a winner in each category. Winners in each category will receive a $25 GrubHub gift card.
Worktour Sponsorship
Are you able to give more and want to help sponsor a teen's summer experience? We are so grateful for your support!
Van Sponsor: $75 - Covers 1 tank of gas for our vans. Van Sponsors will receive an Old St. Pat’s Spatula and an automatic entry in the photo raffle.
Site Sponsor: $150 - Covers a volunteer’s week of materials (paint, building materials, gardening supplies, etc.) for our partner agencies. Site Sponsors will receive a Homestyle Hotcakes Kit that includes a mason jar of pancake mix, an Old St. Pat’s spatula, and an automatic entry in the photo raffle.
Meal Sponsor: $250 - Covers one day of meals for the 20 teens and 6 adults on a Worktour. Meal Sponsors will receive a Homestyle Hotcakes Kit that includes a mason jar of pancake mix, an Old St. Pat’s spatula, and an automatic entry in the photo raffle.
Leader Sponsor: $500 - Helps to cover expenses for 1 Worktour Leader. Our trips cannot happen without the generous adults who volunteer a week of their vacation time to mentor teens in service, justice, and faith. Leader Sponsors will receive a Homestyle Hotcakes Kit that includes a mason jar of pancake mix, an Old St. Pat’s spatula, and an automatic entry in the photo raffle. Leader Sponsors will also receive an Old St. Pat’s camping chair.
NOTE: Sponsorships must be received by 1/24 in order to receive your Homestyle Hotcakes kit prior to the event.
Foundations Youth Ministry is committed to fostering fellowship, spirituality, and service with the teens of Old St. Pat’s in building the Kingdom of God in our world. The program is comprised of high school students from a variety of high schools in and around Chicagoland. Foundations meets most Sunday mornings throughout the school year. Additional days are dedicated toward teens’ participation in service projects, retreats, summer service trips, and many other fun events. Registration is always open! Young adults are needed to volunteer for this important ministry!
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Meetings:
Foundations meetings take place primarily on the first and third Sunday of the month, October-May, from 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on the second floor of the Fr. Jack Wall Mission Center, 711 W. Monroe, Chicago, IL 60661. The topics of Foundations meetings are extremely diverse. We host powerful guest speakers and engage in heartfelt and emotional discussions. We aim to tie together concepts of faith with issues of social justice, Christian leadership, inner reflection and growth. Whatever the theme for the meeting may be, we strive to provide a fun and welcoming community where teens can connect their faith with other teens. |
Fun:
Foundations facilitates many fun events outside of its regular meetings! We have been to play whirlyball, lasertag, and even went to a trampoline park. During the summer, we host Park Games every Tuesday night in the park across from the church from 7 – 9 p.m. We play sports and just hang out. Other fun events include retreats and Worktours (see below)!
Retreats:
Foundations provides opportunities to go on 5 different retreats throughout high school that explore themes of faith, social justice, and inner reflection. Retreats are a great opportunity to get away from your daily life and focus on reconnecting with yourself and with God. They are also a ton of fun and are a great way to bond with other Foundations teens.
Mass:
Foundations hosts the 9:30 a.m. Mass on the first Sunday of the month. Foundations teens are encouraged to participate as Eucharistic Ministers, Lectors, Hospitality Ministers, Choir members on the first Sunday of the month, and at any other Mass throughout the month.
Service:
Foundations works with many different organizations in the Chicagoland area to provide service to those in need. In the past, Foundations has worked with Habitat for Humanity, Misericordia, Midwest Workers Association, Share Your Soles, The Night Ministry, St. Agatha’s, Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly and many other organizations around the city. We also fundraise for our summer Worktours through Workday, a day where homeowners hire the Foundations teens and parents to complete projects around their homes. Participating in service is a great way to get involved with Foundations while giving back to the community!
Worktour:
For the past eight summers, Foundations teens have been cleaning, repairing, and rejuvenating communities across the nation on Worktour! Worktour is a weeklong service trip that teens can participate in each summer to help out an area of the country in need whilst also learning about issues of social justice. For example, we have provided disaster relief in Oklahoma and New Orleans; discussed Civil Rights in Birmingham, Alabama; explored immigration near the border in Texas, and examined the education system in Washington, D.C. We have worked with Habitat for Humanity numerous times to understand the need for affordable housing.
Fundraisers:
Our main fundraisers are the Pancake Breakfast in January and Workday on Memorial Day Weekend. Our fundraisers help support the Worktours around the nation that Foundations participates in each summer. For more information on our fundraising efforts, please contact Courtney Malawy at courtneym@oldstpats.org.
Foundations facilitates many fun events outside of its regular meetings! We have been to play whirlyball, lasertag, and even went to a trampoline park. During the summer, we host Park Games every Tuesday night in the park across from the church from 7 – 9 p.m. We play sports and just hang out. Other fun events include retreats and Worktours (see below)!
Retreats:
Foundations provides opportunities to go on 5 different retreats throughout high school that explore themes of faith, social justice, and inner reflection. Retreats are a great opportunity to get away from your daily life and focus on reconnecting with yourself and with God. They are also a ton of fun and are a great way to bond with other Foundations teens.
Mass:
Foundations hosts the 9:30 a.m. Mass on the first Sunday of the month. Foundations teens are encouraged to participate as Eucharistic Ministers, Lectors, Hospitality Ministers, Choir members on the first Sunday of the month, and at any other Mass throughout the month.
Service:
Foundations works with many different organizations in the Chicagoland area to provide service to those in need. In the past, Foundations has worked with Habitat for Humanity, Misericordia, Midwest Workers Association, Share Your Soles, The Night Ministry, St. Agatha’s, Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly and many other organizations around the city. We also fundraise for our summer Worktours through Workday, a day where homeowners hire the Foundations teens and parents to complete projects around their homes. Participating in service is a great way to get involved with Foundations while giving back to the community!
Worktour:
For the past eight summers, Foundations teens have been cleaning, repairing, and rejuvenating communities across the nation on Worktour! Worktour is a weeklong service trip that teens can participate in each summer to help out an area of the country in need whilst also learning about issues of social justice. For example, we have provided disaster relief in Oklahoma and New Orleans; discussed Civil Rights in Birmingham, Alabama; explored immigration near the border in Texas, and examined the education system in Washington, D.C. We have worked with Habitat for Humanity numerous times to understand the need for affordable housing.
Fundraisers:
Our main fundraisers are the Pancake Breakfast in January and Workday on Memorial Day Weekend. Our fundraisers help support the Worktours around the nation that Foundations participates in each summer. For more information on our fundraising efforts, please contact Courtney Malawy at courtneym@oldstpats.org.