The Need is Great

When Care Is Needed, Dignity Leads the Way

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.

Walking With Them

The Nursing Staff Supporting Our Senior Brothers

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 nursing staff member accompanies a senior Christian Brother at a care facility
A Vocation in Seasons

From Classroom to Community, the Mission Continues

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.

Teaching and Legacy

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.

A Presence That Continues

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.

Care as Mission

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.

Christian Brothers with students in the classroom

The Need Is Real

The Scale of This Moment

In 2019, 128 Brothers served the Midwest District. Today that number has fallen to 83 — and 93% of them are retired, with an average age of 76. These numbers paint a clear picture: the need is now, and it is growing.

Brothers

128 83

in the Midwest District

Retired

58% 93%

average age 76

In Care

20 11

in assisted living & skilled nursing

Reflects fewer Brothers overall — those in care now require higher-acuity support

Care Costs Are Rising

2024
$611,957
baseline
2025
$769,578
+26%
2026
$871,170
+42%
Join the KabarA Challenge

Honor a Life Given to Others

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.