Laura Fissel Laura Fissel

Monday @ Montpelier: June 3

We are officially on summer break at the Montpelier Atrium, but preparations for the 2024-2025 year are in full swing. Highlights from 2023-2024 include serving over 15 children, raising over $1700, and completing several big projects, such as a topographical Jerusalem map and the Cenacle. This summer, we’re focusing on organizing, planning, and completing materials already in process. As we continue to grow into the next year, we will be seeking more volunteers, creating new processes of communication and child safety.

As ever, we rely on generous donations from supporters to make Montpelier Atrium possible, and our work this summer is no exception. If you are able to give, our GoFundMe is still active! Thank you for your support.

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Laura Fissel Laura Fissel

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: A Work of Friendship

[CGS] was born from friendship. It is also primarily about friendship. It is a work most concerned with providing an environment where the child is drawn in love to the One who first loved them. It is a place of continually encountering the gift of God in Christ and responding to it with practices that respect and uplift the child’s unique capability to see and know God.

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Laura Fissel Laura Fissel

Reframing the Cardboard Box

…building an atrium is expensive, and I am committed to that expense, because I believe it reflects and practices Biblical value of the child’s life (exactly where they are, not where they will be when they grow up) and is a work of teaching children their own value and how to perpetuate that value in themselves and throughout the world.

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