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June 17-25th, 2006 will be the next installment of the Bapchule Bound mission trip to the St. Peter’s Indian Mission in Bapchule, AZ. Mark your calendars now ladies and gentlemen. This is a great service program that provides a real need to this Catholic community. If you would like to donate or for more information,…

The Bapchule Bound mission experience, unlike the University Catholic Center’s Mission Trip to Arteaga, Mexico, focuses virtually all efforts onto pastoral work with the community. The construction aspect of this trip used only three staff full-time with the occasional person helping out at night. Upon much thought and prayer, the concept of virtues and their…

The Friday before the mission week rolled around. During the day, nothing exciting too place. I caught up on a couple of e-mails, sent some postal mail. Really, there was nothing exciting to mention. Around 5 p.m., Vanessa and Teeney, a student from Texas A&M who had previously served at St. Peter’s, arrived from The…

On what is very much becoming an annual experience, I spent last week in Bapchule, Arizona serving at the St. Peter’s Indian Mission. Last year, I was a retreat leader for the Jr. High retreat aspect of the Vacation Bible School staffed by Sts. Simon and Jude parish in The Woodlands, TX. The parish had…

Bapchule Bound 2005, the summer mission trip that I coordinated along with Vanessa Gonzalez and Stephanie Elliott, is now complete. Over the next few days, I’ll go into more depth and reflection, but for now, it was an amazing trip. We had over 200 kids in either VBS or the Jr/Sr. High retreat- an all-time…

The Brandon Kraft Foundation is slowly getting more and more off the ground. Form 1023, the IRS form to be formally declared a non-profit entity, is a long, painful form to fill out. Thankfully, the IRS revised it in November giving a much more user-friendly form for me to use. I don’t know if I…