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Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
Olathe Conference Center at Embassy Suites
10401 S Ridgeview Rd, Olathe, KS 66061
11:30am - 12:00pm
Networking
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Luncheon, Program, & Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann Sanctity of Life Award Presentation
Who We Are
Founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1945, Villa St. Francis Catholic Care Center provides 5-star care to those in need from all faith backgrounds with compassion, excellence, and dignity, regardless of their financial means. Villa St. Francis is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, and offers long-term care, short-term rehabilitation, and skilled memory care all on one Olathe campus. With more than 70% of our 170 residents receiving assistance from Medicaid to cover the cost of care, Villa St. Francis is left at a financial shortfall, and relies on the support of our Archdiocesan and Kansas City communities to continue our mission.
About the Luncheon
The Faith in Bloom Benefit Luncheon is an opportunity to connect with other professionals and faithful from throughout the Kansas City metro, and to celebrate all of the ways the Villa St. Francis mission has grown thanks to the community's support. But more than that, the Faith in Bloom Benefit Luncheon is an opportunity for you or your organization to combat what Pope Francis refers to as the "throwaway culture". Your dollars will provide care for some of our community's most vulnerable - those who spent their lives creating the very community they're relying on today.
At the luncheon, Archbishop Naumann will be presenting the annual Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann Sanctity of Life Award to Sister Vickie Perkins, SCL for her lifelong dedication to the pro-life mission of the church. For more than 50 years, Sister Vickie has worked tirelessly to provide tools for success to low-income children and families, from shelter, to education, to transportation and job training. Her ministry beautifully illustrates the depth and breadth of the term pro-life, and inspires us all to work to defend and promote the sanctity of every human life.
"The care given to the elderly, like that of children, is an indicator of the quality of a community. A people who don’t protect their elderly, who don’t take care of their young, is a people without a future, a people without hope. Because the young — the children, the youth — and the old carry history forward."
Pope Francis
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We are so grateful for your support, and we can't wait to see you there.
We'll follow up shortly with any questions, and will send an invoice to the email you provided. Be sure to RSVP on Facebook to connect with friends and colleagues, and to help us spread the word! Your dollars will provide care for some of our community's most vulnerable - those who spent their lives creating the very community they're relying on today.
“ … We are all a little fragile, the elderly. Some, however, are particularly weak, many are alone, and affected by illness. Some depend on the indispensable care and attention of others. Will we take a step back for this? Will we abandon them to their fate? A society without closeness, in which gratuitousness and selfless affection — even among strangers — are disappearing, is a perverse society. The Church, faithful to the Word of God, cannot tolerate these degenerations. A Christian community in which closeness and gratuitousness are no longer considered indispensable, would lose its soul with this. Where there is no honor to the elderly, there is no future for the young.”
– Pope Francis, General Audience, St. Peter’s Square, March 4, 2015
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