Busy as Bees, Trees Flourishing, Oh and I'm NOT Dead...

Some of you may be glad to know, I am NOT dead... and even after I capitalized on Fr. Bill's message in the July Good Newsletter, and made him into a bee..*G* I found these cute little bee wings at the Dollar Store and bought them for our Sunday School kids to wear as they collected poptops from the congregation. One way the kids are involved in the "giving" process too. The "little bees" scurried around at the offetory collecting the poptops the people had brought in, then depositing them into a large bottle. They'll be collecting for the next couple of months, then cashing them in as a donation to the building fund appeal. Fr. Bill even thought it was a cute idea...so I am off the hook... heh heh. *S*





Speaking of the major building fund appeal for our Church - I am the "Creative Design" chairperson for it and have been busy the last few months on different ideas, brochures, getting photos to the fund raising company we are working with (The James Company - great people, great company!) and doing other things to bring attention to our Project.... The others on the Appeal Core Team also give great ideas that then falls into my lap to try to find something that would be an interesting way to present. So, this morning was our Appeal Gathering Sunday, where parishioners would turn in their appeal gift/pledge cards, or an appeal prayer card. Our theme to the Appeal was "Hearts and Hands, Building and Growing TOGETHER".
So we went with a growth theme on this Sunday. The "party people", Ann and Pat had a wonderful reception following both services, with lots of GREEN appetizers - and goodies that drew on the growth theme. I made a tree out of construction paper that I taped to one of the walls in the worship space, and the idea was for people to come forward offering their cards by taping them to the branches of the tree, like leaves... flourishing, growing, yada, yada, yada... We have ideas for using the tree in the next few weeks as well - asking the parishioners to put green post-it notes with their ideas for use of this temporary space that we can use to reach out to others... and for ideas for our regular Church building, once it is finished, to reach out to the community too.

So, there is my artistic endeavor for today... we had a good turnout for the appeal campaign, so far... and we are thanking God for the blessings poured out by others toward it!!

"I will not offer to the Lord that which costs me nothing..."
1 Chronicles 21:24