Students collect Pennies for Priests for Faith for Future campaign

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Students at St. James the Greater School proudly display their Pennies for Priests collection boxes, accompanied by principal Karen Battaglia and archdiocesan director of vocations Msgr. Edward Rice. St. James students are collecting pennies and other change during the school year to donate to the archdiocesan Faith for the Future campaign for Kenrick-Glennon Seminary.

Every penny counts, especially at St. James the Greater School, where students are collecting all the loose change they can find for Kenrick-Glennon Seminary. The Pennies for Priests campaign, which kicked off last month, is a student effort to contribute to the Faith for the Future seminary campaign for the archdiocesan seminary.

Pennies for Priests came out of some focus groups held last year, said Warren Laird, director of advancement for the school in the Dogtown neighborhood of South St. Louis.

“One was on the school in the community. It kind of grew out of that into talking about how we could support Kenrick-Glennon’s Faith for the Future campaign, Laird said.

“We presented three ideas to the students, and they really liked the Pennies for Priests. They got excited about the idea of trying to save their money by giving up different things, and scrounging around the house looking for change, and asking their parents and grandparents to contribute,” he said.