WHEAT  Family of Parishes

We value community — in every parish and every home.

Faith formation flourishes when it’s rooted both in family life and in a vibrant parish community. Across the W.H.E.A.T. Family of Parishes — Annunciation, Immaculate Conception, and St. Vincent de Paul — we recognize that parents are their child’s first and most important teachers. What we offer in our parishes is meant to complement and build upon the foundation you are laying at home.

That’s why our Family Formation model is intentionally designed to be lived out both in the parish and in the home. It’s an invitation to actively pass on the faith you chose for your child at Baptism — within a supportive, unified community of families growing together in Christ.

At your child’s baptism, the priest offered this beautiful prayer for you as parents:

“God is the giver of all life, human and divine. May He bless the fathers of these children. With their wives, they will be the first teachers of their children in the ways of faith. May they also be the best teachers, bearing witness to the faith by what they say and do, in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Across the W.H.E.A.T. Family of Parishes — Annunciation, Immaculate Conception, and St. Vincent de Paul — we honor this calling and your sacred role as your child’s first and most important teacher in the faith.

We are here to accompany you, not only in teaching the truths of our Catholic faith, but in helping your family center your lives on Jesus Christ — through Sunday worship, family prayer, and everyday witness to the Gospel. Regular attendance at Sunday Mass as a family is an essential and irreplaceable part of your child’s faith formation.

We deeply value collaboration with you as we nurture Catholic Christian values in our children — values they so urgently need in today’s world. Let us continue to pray, talk, and walk this path together, drawing strength from Sacred Scripture, Church teaching, and the joyful support of our parish communities.

May God richly bless the work of faith formation we carry out together in His name.

Melissa Weisenburg, Jennifer Kreutzer, and Julie Capello
Directors of Family Faith Formation
W.H.E.A.T. Family of Parishes

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