Celebrating Record Growth at the Kansas Office

BY FRANCIS SLOBODNIK

July 22 of this year marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the America Needs Fatima (ANF) Kansas Office. At that time, discussions were made about how to expand the apostolate to spread devotion to Our Lady of Fatima.

This silver anniversary was marked by a dinner with staff and their families as well as an open house for local residents.

Our office has a fascinating history of quick growth. In July 1996, ANF decided to open a small satellite office in Wamego, Kansas, staffed mostly by part-time employees. Immediately, the fruit of our labors caused us to outgrow that small office. Six months later, a larger office was rented in Silver Lake, Kansas for tasks such as mailing, organization of rallies of reparation, fundraising and the scheduling of home visits with the Pilgrim Virgin Statues of Our Lady of Fatima.

Since beginning the Fatima home visits, around fifty thousand have hosted a visit and half a million guests have attended a visit!

In 2003, out of the necessity of growth, a larger building was purchased in Rossville, Kansas. When ANF began the Public Square Rosary Rally Crusade in 2007, volunteers traveled to Kansas for two or more weeks, making phones calls to recruit rally captains. Since then, over 176,000 rallies have taken place, with an estimated attendance of over three million!

A group photo of staff and volunteers of the America Needs Fatima Kansas office. For twenty-five years, hundreds of enthusiastic Catholics like these have dedicated their time and services recruiting rosary rally captains, managing email and mailing campaigns, and arranging Fatima home visits throughout America.

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In 2019, it became necessary to purchase a second building dedicated to the ever-growing number of Public Square Rosary Rallies, to accommodate more volunteers.

The staff at the ANF office in Kansas work there because of their love and dedication to Our Lady of Fatima. Whether it is accounting, scheduling Fatima Home Visits, processing mail or organizing Public Square Rosary Rallies, all is done to hasten the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary! ■