Graduation put Teach for Christ educator Sophia Rick back into the classroom. Sophia graduated from the University of St. Thomas last December with a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Mathematical Statistics.

As the 2018 school year gets its start, so too does one of Teach for Christ’s returning educators from last year’s founding class. Hailing from Blackwell Oklahoma, Mr. Colby Cantillon is serving Chesterton Academy in his second year teaching Latin and serving as Assistant Athletic Director.

When a group of people called by God get together for a missionary expedition, whether it's through NET, FOCUS, SPO, Christ in the City, or our own Teach for Christ, you’re bound to get the adventure of a lifetime. But aren’t we all on an adventure? The greatest of all adventures is to find Jesus in all the nooks and crannies of our lives, giving him everything we have. 

Everything was going smoothly the first day (our travel day), until we got to Badlands National Park…

The Wittman Fund is set up specifically to benefit “the poor, homeless, and disadvantaged” and is always given at the discretion of the Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis.  Teach for Christ was given the grant to support our work at the Ascension Academy Schools, which include Ascension, John Paul II, and Peter Claver. All three are inner city schools serving underprivileged students, and we work with all of them.