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We are thrilled to have welcomed St. Louis musician Javier Mendoza to our missions in Bolivia in January! Javier met with children in Bolivia, and helped with a documentary and music videos for our Pan y Amor program. Thank you, Javier, for your support! We are extremely grateful!
Click here to view videos from Javier's trip to Bolivia ...
 Pan y Amor is a unique mission aid program that sponsors needy orphan children around the world. Pan y Amor – “bread and love” in Spanish – provides both the physical and the spiritual needs in life to these children. “Pan” refers to the physical needs – food, medicine, clothing, and shelter. “Amor” refers to the spiritual needs – love, care, hope, and spiritual formation based on the principles of life taught by Jesus.
Pan y Amor sponsors children primarily in Bolivia, but is also present in Colombia, Kenya and Uganda. Sponsors are recruited to pray and to give a monthly gift of $15 to take care of an orphan. Many of these sponsors and those involved in Pan y Amor can be found both in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis and in many other parts of the country!
Many individuals and families participate in Pan y Amor, as well as a number of our own schools in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis. Adopting an orphan through Pan y Amor is a wonderful way for our students to show love, care, and compassion, and to live the way that Jesus taught us. They are able to express and deepen their own needs for spiritual formation outside of a formal religion class by adopting an orphan.
Monsignor Bernard Sandheinrich, founder of Pan y Amor, once said: “Mother Teresa wrote that missionary work is doing ‘something beautiful for God.’ How can anything be more beautiful than taking a sick child and nursing that child to health? How can there be a scene more beautiful than giving love to a young homeless child of the streets? Pan y Amor does this every day … Pan y Amor, bread and love for the young people of the world!”
Pan y Amor … para los ninos del mundo!
Bread and Love … for the children of the world!
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