The Tiny Home Takeout Experience has been operating at St. Mary’s Parish in Kitchener for several years now, and provides Grade 7 & 8 students the opportunity to explore what the Catholic Social Justice teachings look like in action! Classes who visit St. Mary’s for the THTE work with Tiny Home Takeout volunteers, attend Mass, listen to presentations and enjoy a calzone lunch!
The THTE focuses on core areas such as Service, Church, & Faith In Action and how those principles apply to our mission. The best part is that these principles can be taken back to the classroom or school and put into practice.
Faith Takes Flight is an 80-minute reflective experience which brings the Grade 7 and 8 students back into their recent Tiny Home Takeout Experience, mapping their hands-on service onto a journey of profound personal transformation.
By exploring the quiet growth of a butterfly’s life cycle, students discover how their own everyday decisions can build a more compassionate world.
Caterpillar Phase — Conversion & Choice (Principle 5): Students begin grounded in the truth that they are deeply loved by God and that each person has been given unique gifts to share with the world.
Chrysalis Phase — Community & Dignity (Principle 6): Students discover that transformation involves a choice: like Jesus, we can choose to use our gifts to love others in selfless ways.
Butterfly Phase — Resurrecting Society & Faith in Action (Principle 7): When students put their faith into action through selfless service, they become agents of hope who help resurrect society one small act at a time. They discover that while they are helping to heal the world around them, their own hearts are being transformed too.
