A Brother's vocation unfolds in seasons. The Brothers who taught, mentored, and shaped generations of students are now entering a new season — one that calls the whole community to accompany them.
The Midwest District employs five nursing staff members to provide dedicated care for our senior Brothers. These healthcare professionals are more than caregivers—they are mission partners, ensuring that every Brother is seen, accompanied, and supported with the dignity his life and vocation deserves.

A Brother's vocation does not end at retirement. It unfolds across seasons, each one distinct, each one sacred. KabarA ensures that we, as Lasallians, can walk with the Brothers through each phase, so that dignity and presence mark every stage of life.
For decades, Brothers devoted themselves entirely to students, not only in classrooms, but in hallways, fields, and every corner of school life. Their presence shaped not just minds but character, and their investment in young people continues to bear fruit across generations of Lasallian graduates.
Even in retirement, the witness does not stop. Brothers mentor younger Brothers, accompany lay partners, and remain a living presence in the communities they helped build. Their prayer, wisdom, and fraternity anchor the District in ways that no institutional structure can replicate.
When a Brother requires greater support, KabarA ensures that professional, dignified care is there—so that every Brother can continue to live fully as a Christian Brother at every stage of his vocation. Five nursing staff members serve not only as healthcare professionals but as mission partners, accompanying each Brother with the same attentiveness to the whole person that has always defined the Lasallian mission. Care is not tangential to the mission. It is the mission continuing in a different form.

The Brothers gave decades to the mission. Now it’s our turn to walk with them. Your gift to the KabarA Challenge directly supports the care, nursing staff, and services that make dignified retirement possible for our senior Brothers.