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Sept. -Dec. 2014Vol. 24.1PrimaryGr. 1 - 3

HOLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION

Dear Jesus, We thank you for all the good

things in our lives.You love all children very much and we want to be like you.Help us to learn more about

them so that we can help them.Help us to share what we have

with children in need.Listen to our prayers for children in faraway lands.

We want them to know you and love you as we do.

Amen.

Dear Boys and Girls,

Welcome back to another year of membership and activity in the Holy Childhood Association (HCA). If you are a new member, congratulations! We are so happy to have you join the largest and oldest mission club for children in the world. Some of you will be receiving this newsletter as we prepare for the birthday of Jesus. This time of prepa-ration is called Advent. Advent means “coming”. This year Advent begins on Sunday Nov. 30th. We should pray for God’s help as we prepare our hearts for the coming of Jesus. How will you open your heart?This newsletter will tell you about the children of Ghana. Many of them are members of the Holy Child-hood Association too. Isn’t it wonderful to know that wherever you live in Canada, and wherever children live in Ghana, you are all praying for, learning about and sharing with children around the world?

We join with Mission children around the world when we say our Mission prayer.

REMEMBER: GOD LOVES YOU AND ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD.

GHANA

CHILDREN HELPING CHILDREN®

FOODChildren often eat rice or cassa-va. Cassava is a type of yam. See if you can �nd what a yam looks like in the grocery store.

ANIMALSGhana has a lot of interesting animals. Some of them are: elephants, hippos, lions and crocodiles. An interesting place to visit is Ta� Atome which has a special home for 350 Mona monkeys. They are cared for by the people who live nearby and are so tame you can feed them by hand. They love to eat bananas. Would you like to feed a monkey?

A monkey!What kind of a key opens a

banana?

What did the banana say to the monkey?

Nothing. Bananas can‛t

talk!

GAMESSoccer is the most popular game in Ghana. Have you ever played soccer?

FORGIVENESSForgiving others is hard to do when you are still feeling hurt. By forgiving others it doesn’t mean that you think what the other person did is okay, it just means that you have made the decision to not hold it against him or her. Forgiveness is some-thing you do for yourself even though the other person may not yet be sorry. Ask God to help you forgive others and help you get over your hurt more easily.

TRANSPORTATIONGhana has lots of ways to get to places. One way is by riding in a tro-tro. Tro-tros are small trucks or mini buses. You may have to wait for it to move though because the driver won’t leave until he has every seat �lled!

GHANA

HOMESMany mission children live in small houses made of mud walls with a roof made of banana leaves. There is only one room and the whole family eat and sleep together.

is a beautiful country in West Africa. The climate is tropical meaning it is hot all year long. They never get snow! What is the climate like where you live? LEARN

PRAY SHARE LOVE CAREADVENT JESUS CHRISTMAS OPEN HEARTELEPHANT HIPPO MONKEY LION CROCODILEFORGIVE HURT DECISION FEELINGS SORRY

WORD SEARCH

MISSIONWe heard from Sister Germaine Ocansey in Goaso, Ghana, She sends her ‘deepest gratitude” for helping her build 6 new class-rooms for primary and kinder-garten children.

STUDENTS' CORNER HOLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION 2219 Kennedy Rd., TORONTO, ON

M1T 3G5, CANADA1-800-897-8865 www.missionsocieties.ca

We were so happy to hear from Elizabeth Schulz and our friends in St. Andrew’s Parish , Fraser Lake, BC. They have supported the HCA for many years now under the direc-tion of Father Vincent James, Broth-er Roy Joseph and Brother Walter Lobos. The youth of the parish held their annual Christmas ra�e and had fun raising a lot of money for HCA children.

Special thanks to Ryerson Kunz and Kaden Gram-lich from Our Lady of Lourdes School, West Kelowna, BC. On their 6th birthday they asked that instead of gifts, their friends donate to the HCA. They hope to inspire HCA members in Canada to think of children in other coun-tries who do not have clothes, schools and medicine like we do here in Canada. Special thanks to mothers Claire Gram-lich and Angie Kunz.

Our friends in Grade 1 at St. Joan of Arc School in Regina, SK held a candy guessing contest. Each guess cost 25 cents. They wanted to show that they cared about other children in Mission countries.

The HCA began in Vancouver, Canada in 1933. Since then, we have had constant support from the Archdiocese of Vancouver. They organize a HCA Mission Day on the �rst Wednesday of May each year. We are deeply grateful for their support. This year Archbishop J. Michael Miller said Mass at St. Patrick’s Church on May 6, 2014. Special thanks to Diocesan director Sister Mary Ellen Burns and Doreen Dominguez.

BRAVO VANCOUVER!... BRAVO VANCOUVER!... BRAVO VANCOUVER!...

Thank you for your loving support.

Well done young missionaries!

Well done all!