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ver the years, Daniel and Lora the school community. On many occaHuerta have welcomed a number sions, the school would receive anonyof children into their home, and thanks mous donations or an influx of money to our loving parish family, they never at just the right time.” had to do it alone. Lora has also appreciated the “One of my favorite things about opportunity to help make our parish our parish community is how caring school a success, especially by being the people are,” Lora says. “When we an active school parent, as well as by were actively serving as foster parents, serving on the Parent Teacher Orgaeveryone at our parish just loved on our nization (PTO) for 10 years. Benjamin children. Whenever we came to church, attended the parish school from prepeople were so excited to see the chilschool through the eighth grade, and dren and ask how they were doing. We Isaac is currently in first grade there. have so many close friends at our parish “Being on the PTO is a lot of hard and even the people we don’t know well work, but it is worth it in the end,” are like family to us. It is so comforting Lora says. “It helps keep our school just to be with them.” alive and growing, and our children All throughout the trials that come happy, which is what I love most about with foster parenting and adoption, the it. We have been super active in the Huertas knew that God was right by school not only because our kids have Isaac’s first day of kindergarten at St. Patrick Catholic been going there, but also because we their side the whole time. School in Lufkin. Aug. 19, 2020 — Daniel and Lora “Our faith has definitely given us the have been blessed to have parish priests adopted Isaac on June 24, 2020. strength we needed to do this,” Daniel who have loved and supported it. That says. “It has been great to see God working through the adoption has made all the difference.” process. The parish community was very supportive of us adoptFor Daniel and Lora, sending their children to our parish ing our son, Isaac, as well. This gave us a lot of peace ” school was a very easy decision. Day by day, Daniel and Lora and their two sons, Benja“I don’t know if we have ever considered giving our min, 15, and Isaac, 7, strive to put Christ and our parish fam- children anything besides a Catholic education,” Daniel says. ily at the center of their lives. Recently, Daniel resigned from “Providing an education with a foundation in the faith is so being on the School Council after serving for 11 years. important to us. Our school is great academically, as well.” “I enjoyed serving on the council,” he says. “It was great Daniel enjoys sharing his time and talent as an active to see the parish and school flourish despite all of the finanmember of the Knights of Columbus, as well as working on cial struggles they faced. It was good to see God providing for the sound system for our parish Masses. continued on page 11
“Part of being a good steward is just being present and visible, and having other parishioners see that we are at church each week and participating in various parish events. We want to give a good example to others and inspire them to grow closer to Christ.” — DANIEL HUERTA 4
