Sarpy County has Spoken, We're the Best Chruch

Today the Suburban Newspapers have published their guide to the best of Sarpy County. St. Columbkille Parish was chosen as the best church of any denomination in the county. You can see Fr. Reeson representing us in the lower right of the picture. (And we're delighted to see another Catholic Parish, St. Mary's in Bellevue, as the runner up.)

In September, Fr. Reeson gathered

with the other winners for the picture. 

This came as a complete surprise to us, it is not anything we pursued or asked anyone to vote for. The award rightly belongs to all of us here at the parish. So congratulations!

Crossing the Equator

Fr. Dave's mission to the "boat people" was not alone. Dcn Duane Thome accompanied him in his ministry and seemed to have a good time. Here he is with Neptune at a ceremony as they crossed the equator on their trip.

Dressing as Scholars, Saints or 100 years olds

Today students at St. Columbkille Catholic School were able to dress as scholars...

... saints ...

... or someone 100 years olds. 

It was to celebrate the success of the HSA fundraiser in the 100th year of the school.

 Here we have Albert Einstein,

 Moses,

St. Vincent de Paul,

St. John Paul II,

Warren Buffet,

 Fr. Vogel, 

 Mary & Joseph.

These young men were asked if they dressed like Mr. Barth to show they were scholars, they said, "No, he's a saint to put up with us."

Franciscan Missionary Service

One of our parishioners, Allison Dethlefs, is one of six women being commissioned today as a lay missionary as part of Franciscan Missionary Service. The Mass, celebrated by Fr. Paul Dressler, OFM Cap.,  is at 3:30 p.m. Please keep Allison and the other missionaries in your prayers.

Before Allison goes oversea, she will visit us on Sunday, December 6th and tell us about her upcoming adventure.

#TurkeyBingo Winners

Those who tweeted about Turkey Bingo last night by 7:45 and used the hashtag #TurkeyBingo were eligible for prizes. The three winners tweeted these:

 Larsen Turkey Bingo: We don't mess around #TurkeyBingo

This kid even dressed the part! #TurkeyBingo

The agony of defeat #TurkeyBingo

(By the way, the young man above was in a much

 better mood after receiving the prize for the tweet.)

Thank you to everyone who played!

Turkey Bingo

The Home School Association (HSA) prepared our Social Hall for crowd of fun loving bingo players last night.

It was a fun, family event with half of the proceeds going towards providing over 350 Thanksgiving meals in Sarpy County.

Finishing Some Striping

Sixth Street was closed for a few hours yesterday to do some work striping the street.

One of the things they did was paint a yellow triangular are to help encourage west bound traffic to move to the right. When they had worked on the street a few weeks back, we got an unscheduled rain-shower. So they were able to take care of some striping they had intended to do earlier.

As a gesture of good will, the folks at Miktom were kind enough to restripe some areas of our existing parking lot as well as paint a cross walk for our new crossing spot.

With all of the new portions of the parking lot, it's nice for some of our current parking lot to get some attention.

Thank you Miktom!