Gift Giving Opportunities

 >FALL APPEAL 2009 * Spirit Center: Respite, Reconciliation and Renewal
“Thanksgiving” evokes images of family, friends, food, respite, reconciliation and renewal. For us “Thanksgiving” wears your face because your friendship and support enable us to respond to so many needs. Thank you so much. Who or what tops your gratitude list this year?

 >SPRING APPEAL 2009 * Sustaining the Common Good
As we cross the threshold into our next 100 years of presence and ministry, will you partner with us in meeting the spirituality and justice needs of our times?

 >FALL APPEAL 2008 * Celebrating Our Elder Sisters
As we celebrate 100 years “at home” in Idaho we share memories from our friends about our elder sisters who shaped our first century here and who remain vital as we begin the next.

 >FALL APPEAL 2007 * Motherhouse
Isn’t motherhouse a wonderful word?…it evokes a sense of security, comfort, a listening heart and unconditional love.

 >CAPITAL CAMPAIGN Growing a Future Rooted in Hope
The Campaign is raising money for building Spirit Center – a $3.4 million 21,800 square foot conference and retreat facility; a $2 million renovation of the historic monastery building; and $1.5 million in endowments for the Spirituality Ministry and the Historical Museum at St. Gertrude.

 >WINDOWS CAMPAIGN See Our Life, Share Our Future
Within our main Capital Campaign we are conducting a focused mini-campaign, “See Our Life, Share Our Future”, inviting people to sponsor a monastery window.

 >SGA APPEAL* A Special Invitation to our St. Gertrude's Academy Alumni
We invite all SGA Alumni to please take a moment and consider this special appeal: "The Harvest is Ready, Will You Help?".

 >VOCATIONS APPEAL Helping Women Say "Yes" to God's Call
Your financial and prayerful support of our vocation promotion has been outstanding, and the results have been fruitful. Your continued generosity toward these efforts is vital as we continue to invite women who hear God calling them to religious life.

 >GROW A FOREST CAMPAIGN Give a Gift to Future Generations
Help grow a healthy future for yourself, your family and our Earth by joining us in planting trees and creating a healthy forest. Your contribution, combined with many others, will turn a single tree into a forest.

 >MUSEUM APPEAL* A Letter from Museum Director Lyle Wirtanen
With over 70,000 artifacts and 8,000 square feet to house and store them, the Historical Museum at St. Gertrude needs financial support to continue our efforts to care for these treasures.

*Fall 2008, SGA and Museum Appeals are in PDF format, Acrobat Reader is FREE

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
~ Winston Churchill

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