Work Hard to Show the World for Whom You Are Working

What we've been up to recently, and what we'll be up to in the next couple of months: 

We helped organized funds to pay for the funeral services of Audenn Salcido. His passing was a tragedy that deeply affected his family. They continue to be in our prayers.

We purchased coats for two students in our high school who did not have them, and we are looking into purchasing basketball shoes for those students who can't afford to buy them and may not go out for the team as a result.

We  purchased and donated two large metal signs from Davis Designs and donated them to Russell Child Development for their annual Fantasy Tree Festival. These signs have biblical quotes on them and are quite cool. They also have a lovely one with the Lord's Prayer on it.

We plan to provide rolls for the chicken and noodle dinner being served by DISCO on October 28 to benefit Jeanette Crump, daughter of Elmer and Chris Clymer. We pray that Jeanette's tests will reveal what needs to be done to restore her to full health.

We continue to prepare for our first 5K, which we've dubbed The Great Pumpkin Fun Run. We look forward to working with Satanta High School's FCCLA group on this project and building a partnership with this organization.

We plan to donate $100 toward Operation Christmas Child, which is being locally organized by Lana Clawson and Shirley McDonald who are leading the Chrysalis UMW Circle. These funds will help these young ladies ship as many as 100 boxes overseas this year.

We've begun initially planning for our annual Christmas Angel Tree project. Rachel Lee will take the lead on getting the names for the ornaments. It will be a push, but we'd like to have these ornaments out at the November 14 UMW Bazaar with gifts being returned to us by December 9 with a tentative delivery date of December 12. We are working to coordinate this event with the Pairs and Spares class, which is organizing the delivery of food baskets to needy families. Eventually, we'll want to find a Santa to go along with us on this adventure. We've also begun discussing the possibility of having another Christmas Sweet Shoppe to support our Christmas giving. That means it'll soon be homemade peanut brittle time again!

Finally, we've planned our first Parents' Night Out with the help of Jim and Pat Shearman. We plan to eat out in Garden City (or Liberal) at Las Margaritas (or Vallarta) without our children. We wonder if you know what you've gotten into Pat and Jim! It is our prayer that by inviting other young couples to events such as these that we might begin to expand our group.