What We're Up to Now . . .

In anticipation of Easter 2012, we have made the purchase of over 1,500 filled Easter eggs from the Target clearance aisle at a cost of about $100. We have also purchased most of the items we'll need for next year's grand-prize baskets on clearance. These items are being stored in the storage room off the kitchen at church.

We are also looking forward to providing assessment incentive rewards to the students at Satanta Elementary, Junior High, and High School. Elementary students who proved successful on the recent assessments, will be entered in a raffle to win Satanta Day carnival wristbands: five each for grades3-4 and 5-6. At the JH/HS students will be entered in a similar raffle (for students in grades 7-12) with prizes to include five Satanta Day carnival wristbands and 10 ten-dollar gift certificates from local businesses. Brent will take care of getting the carnival bands via the Chamber, while Ryan will shop for the gift certificates from local businesses.

We have also been asked to consider donating money towards the purchase of items (bookmarks or pencils, perhaps) to help the Dudley Township (Satanta) Library advertise its summer reading program, which will be led this year by Julie Smith. This is something that we'll need to discuss further.

Please note that we have committed to hosting a 21st Time garage sale at the Community Building on June 11. Start saving items for this sale, and help us by spreading the word others that we'll be accepting (and even picking up) donations for this sale.

Hopefully, we can return to our Adam Hamilton DVD series next Sunday. We're ready to watch and discuss the third section, which covers how Christians should respond to other religions. Once this DVD is complete, we could consider purchasing the one based on Hamilton's newest book called Why?