By Jennifer Lewerenz
(KNSI) – A local adopt a family program was a smashing success for 2020.
Executive Director for Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud Steve Pareja says their Share the Spirit Program came down to the wire, but, thanks to an outpouring of generosity, help came through.
“We had over a dozen families that still needed to be sponsored. And I really was trying to get the word out that there are families in this area that still were in need to have a good Christmas and we spoke that morning. I think it was in the 8:00 hour, and by noon, over half of those families had already received the sponsorship. By the next morning [it was] all of them.”