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WAYS WE HELP

Local Charities We Support

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  • Clergy Appreciation for Local Clergy

  • Mary’s Garden at OLW

  • Alzheimer’s Association

  • One Nation Walking Together

  • Giving Tree Ministry

  • CDA Sister Fund

  • Parish Building Funds

  • John Silvia for Ukrainian Refugees 

  • Walk for Life 

  • Young Mother’s Group – Children’s Summer Music Camp 

  • Fr. Chance’s Installation Meal 

  • OLW Picnics

  • Choices in Woodland Park & Cripple Creek

  • Mater Filius in Colorado Springs

  • OLW 2023 Christmas Billboard

State Charities We Support

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  • Canine Companions for Independence

  • Seminary Burse 

National Charities We Support

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  • CDA Disaster Relief Fund 

  • Disaster Relief for Maui 

  • Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation

  • CDA National Projects – paid to National:

    • Habitat for Humanity

    • Holy Cross Family Ministries

    • The Laboure Society (Rescues Catholic vocations from the impediment of student loan debt.)

    • NCOSE (National Center on Sexual Exploitation)

    • SOAR (Support Our Aging Religious)

 

Option to donate to the following

CDA National Supported Charities

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  • Apostles of the Sea (Ensuring Maritime Catholic workers get scripture and Holy Eucharist)

  • Catholic Extension

  • Catholic Relief Services

  • Human Life International

  • Missionaries of Charity – Mother Teresa

  • National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

  • Pontifical North American College

  • Tutwiler Clinic (Run by Sister-Dr Anne Brooks: health services for the poorest of the poor in the Louisiana bayou) 

Right to Life

This fall Court Our Lady of Peace sponsored a parish wide Baby Shower to provide much needed equipment and monetary support for our local crisis pregnancy centers as well as our Parish Right to Life Ministry

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WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S

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A number of our members participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Colorado Springs. 

We were able to raise nearly two thousand dollars to help find a cure for this devastating disease.

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DEMENTIA

 Court Our Lady of Peace teamed up with the Veteran’s Administration and sponsored a series of presentations for caregivers of people with various forms of dementia.  For six consecutive weeks our members provided literature, education and resources to those in our Pikes Peak area who are called upon to perform this very difficult function.

CAREPORTAL

Court Our Lady of Peace participates in the CarePortal program.  This program, designed to help people in need in the Teller County area by providing food, clothing and other needs.  This program is carried out in cooperation with various government agencies, charitable organizations churches throughout the area.

ONE NATION WALKING TOGETEHER

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Each year we host two food and clothing drives for the benefit of One Nation Walking Together.  This organization promotes greater interaction between the local Native American population and Non-Natives.

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GIVING TREES

Court Our Lady of Peace organizes the annual Giving Trees at Christmas.  The trees, which are set up at Our Lady of the Woods in Woodland Park and St. Peter’s Chapel in Cripple Creek, provide much needed gifts for the people of Teller County.  We include the clients of such organizations as the Community Partnership, the Aspen Mine Center, Woodland Park Police Victim's Assistance and the Teller Senior Coalition as well as various senior facilities throughout the county.  This year we partnered with other Christian churches in Teller County to reach even more recipients.

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HANDMADE GIFTS

Our Court has provided handmade gifts for Teller County nursing home patients.

Father Chance blessed quilts made by our talented members.  They were later distributed at one of our local nursing homes 

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During the Covid epidemic our members

made sure that the seniors in our community

knew that they were loved and appreciated at Easter.

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Gifts are also donated as bingo prizes for local retirement homes.

We support the seminarians at Holy Cross Novitiate in Cascade, Colorado with an annual monetary gift.  The seminary is run by the Congregation of the Holy Cross and helps young men discern and train for their vocations as members of the Congregation.

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DISASTER FUND

Court Our Lady of Peace contributes to the Catholic Daughters of the Americas Disaster Fund with an annual donation.  This fund disseminates monetary relief to bishops whose dioceses are in need of relief from natural disasters throughout the Americas.  In 2023 the Catholic Daughters sent relief to

Hawaii after the volcanic eruption.

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