{"id":21562,"date":"2012-03-07T13:53:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T18:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=21562"},"modified":"2012-03-07T13:53:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T18:53:42","slug":"vocation-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/03\/07\/vocation-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocation Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"Problem solving" was a recent LIFE (Living in a Faithfilled Environment) skill word. Our Bible role model was Jacob. Throughout Jacob's life he had to solve many problems with Easu, Isaac, and Laben. Recognized for using "problem solving" skill were: Ryan Pratt, Owen Treece, Mrs. Say, Nathan Bidlack, Kordane Thomas, Angelo Jackson, Jadelyn Jackson, and Emma Hatcher. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Nancy Replogle<\/strong><\/p>\n

St. Marys School teaches that God has a purpose for each person and\u00a0calls us throughout our life. Van Wert native Keith\u00a0Stripe heard that call and is now serving as a priest in Maumee, Ohio. Fr.\u00a0Keith attended school at St. Mary’s as a boy and went to Van Wert City Junior High\u00a0and High School, where he was a football player. After college he worked in\u00a0the computer industry for a few years, then followed God’s call to the\u00a0seminary and was ordained a priest in the Catholic Church 16 years ago.<\/p>\n

As part of Vocation Awareness Week Fr. Keith visited on Friday, March\u00a02, celebrated Mass, and talked with students informally. He commented he and his twin sister “played Mass” as children. His sister, Therese Beard, said that the family knew Keith was going to do something special with his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Nancy Replogle St. Marys School teaches that God has a purpose for each person and\u00a0calls us throughout our life. Van Wert native Keith\u00a0Stripe heard that call and is now serving as a priest in Maumee, Ohio. Fr.\u00a0Keith attended school at St. Mary’s as a boy and went to Van Wert City Junior High\u00a0and High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stmaryscolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 05:23:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}