{"id":52771,"date":"2014-05-21T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=52771"},"modified":"2014-12-29T00:18:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T07:18:22","slug":"a-couple-of-works-of-mercy-worth-supporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/05\/a-couple-of-works-of-mercy-worth-supporting.html","title":{"rendered":"A work of mercy worth supporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A reader writes:<\/p>\n

You were kind enough to help advertise the Seattle Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally\u00a0when I\u00a0was on the command team a\u00a0while back and made the request, so I\u2019m hoping you may be willing to help me with another project. I am now the teacher of a small,\u00a0devoutly Catholic preschool in Redmond.\u00a0The school is privately owned by a polish family who were parishioners of Karol Wojtyla back in the day. They later had to flee their homeland as political refugees due to their involvement\u00a0with Solidarity. They\u00a0run various businesses and charities, but the preschool is what they really consider their family ministry. <\/p>\n

They were looking for a way to change the world, and\u00a0decided that one of the best ways is not by treating the sickness, but by preventing it.\u00a0What happens in\u00a0early childhood has an immense impact on the character and success\u00a0of those individuals in adulthood, as increasing studies show.\u00a0In this time of cold, bureaucratic daycares\/preschools, and with bizarre notions of sexuality being\u00a0introduced to children at\u00a0younger and younger\u00a0ages, in 2009 the Radka family chose to\u00a0take a leap of faith and build a safe place for\u00a0the catholic\u00a0education of young children within their own beautiful family compound. As you might imagine, they continue to face a lot of obstacles, including\u00a0resentment from parishes that see\u00a0them as competition for their own (sadly much less orthodox)\u00a0parish preschools.<\/p>\n

We really need help spreading the word to people who might need us, because\u00a0the parishes won\u2019t allow us to advertise with their parishioners and we don\u2019t have much of a budget for other forms of advertising. Would you be willing to\u00a0mention the JP2 Catholic Preschool <\/a>on your blog? It would really be a huge help. I have included below the email that we have been sending around to contacts, which contains some more information about the school.<\/p>\n

Thank you and blessings,<\/p>\n

Becky Harmon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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