Mark Your Calendars

Dear Friends,

The Holiday Season is fast approaching!

And that means we have a lot of opportunities to help our brothers and sisters who are struggling right now.

I wanted to give you a "heads up" on ways you can make a difference in their lives this holiday season by joining our Hearts and Hands service projects over the next few months.

OCTOBER

October 18, Nov. 1 and Nov. 8th - We will be collecting items for Missionary Care Packages

NOVEMBER

Nov. 13 at 11:00 we will be assembling the care packages

DECEMBER

We will be collecting items for Christmas Stockings for the children, teens and women at the local abuse shelter. (Dec. 11 at 11:00 we will be putting the stockings together)

Compassion

"Compassion is a network

of invisible threads

that weave a blanket

of love around

many lives."

- unknown

Family Volunteer Day

Care Packages

Our next project will be making Care Packages for the 2 young men from our Ward who are currently serving missions for our Church in Mississippi and Guatemala.

We want to send them a little bit of home and a lot of love and appreciation for their sacrifice!

Please join us in gathering the needed items for the care packages:

• Jerky
• Raisinettes
• Gum
• Dried Fruit (Bananas & Apples)
• Chocolate Pudding Mix
• Hard Candy
• Kool-Aid
• Skittles
• Inexpensive CTR Rings
• Stamps
• Black Socks
• Ties
• Letters!!!
• Money for Sending the Packages

We will be collecting items and letters through October and assembling the care packages on November 13th at my home.

Thank You!

Cards for At-Risk Youth

Thank you so much to those of you who helped make blank notecards and bookmarks for the youth at the Juvenile Justice Services!

The cards and bookmarks were great! We had some very creative people helping us. The great thing is that each one of those cards will go to a teen who needs a reminder that there are people who care about them!

Thanks again for taking time out of your busy schedule to make a difference in another person's life!

Hope to see you next time!