God's Gals

Sharon Combs, Erin DeRose, Erin Szczerba, Lauri Connelly, Susas Estes

Not Pictured: Sherma Oliver




I got the "you're in trouble" email from Gary. I wonder if I'm the only leader who hasn't submitted the picture yet!! Wouldn't surprise me. :-)

We have been having a great time in our group. As you can imagine, as a group of women, we have a hard time fitting in all we'd like to discuss!! We are really growing to love each other and have talked about planning a white water rafting trip this summer. We're also planning on continuing to meet after the 40 days are up.

We have chosen to support a low-income single mom with 2 kids. One of the kids attends South Elementary where Erin DeRose teaches 4th grade. He has epilepsy and struggles emotionally and socially. His mom, Sophie, was blown away when Erin told her we want to help her family. We will be using the $335 to pay for family counseling sessions and Sophie could not be more thrilled. She said this is the most important thing for her family right now.

Plan C...

The Heldt group is at it again. We are going to join in a city effort to clean up trash from one of the creek beds running through town. If you are eager to get out and serve again, feel free to throw on a Plum Creek shirt and join us. Here's the details...

What: “Spring Up the Creek Day”
Where: Festival Park (corner of Second and Perry Streets in Castle Rock)
When: Saturday, May 3rd. 9 – 11:30am (with “celebration” to follow if you want to stick around)
What is provided: instructions, map, gloves, trash bags, dumpsters.

Hopefully we will have a follow-up post this weekend!

Rachel

Weekend at Bernie's

Hey Everyone...

This is the Partridge/Pitsch group. We have had a great time growing together during 40 Days of Community and are planning on staying together, too!

Our service project is this coming Saturday, May 3rd at a man named Bernie's home in the Meadows. Bernie and his wife are senior citizens who are in need of some extra help this spring. We are helping them with their yard work, staining their deck, making some meals and other miscellaneous spring clean-up projects.

We are planning on using our Plum Creek funds to help pay for some of these projects as well as helping to purchase some craft items for a local program that works with children who have lost a parent or sibling in the recent past.

We are from the top (L to R): Angie and Dan Richardson, Matt and Andrea Pitsch, Andrea Seely and Nate Stokes, Charlene and Stevan Tewell, Colleen and Sam Shumate, Amanda and Gary Partridge.

Combining Forces for our Project

Our group is teaming up with a couple of other groups, and renovating the outdoor courtyard of the nursing home in town, the Castle Rock Care Center. We plan to make a beautiful spot for the residents to spend summer days outside, and to build relationship with the Care Center to be involved with them in the future also. (for those of you who read our family blog, this is a repeat :-))






It's inspiring to see what a huge impact it can have to just reach out and do a little something for the people around you. I just heard a speaker who was talking about reaching out and serving even when the need feels overwhelming, say, "You can't do everything. You can't do nothing. You CAN do something. What are you going to do to impact the world?" I hope our Journey Groups can life our lives this way.

Rachael S.

Road Block

Well... the owner of the car wash is not interested in being part of our campaign. He will not let us be there and says he gets enough business without our $300 in three hours promise. So our plans are currently on hold. Please pray for direction for our group. This is our second time being shut down. We will make a positive impact in this community even if the community is resisting it!

Rachel Heldt

Coming soon to a car wash near you!

I guess we don't have a real group name, but Mike likes to call us "the BEST group ever." Anyway, we are heading out to the trenches to serve our community this weekend. We will be at the coin operated car wash on Wilcox this Saturday from 9-12 (or until we run out of quarters) washing cars of those in our community. Mike picked up $330 in quarters from the bank today. That's a conversation piece right there! We are looking forward to posting pictures and stories of our time together!

Rachel Heldt

BTO: formerly known as the Vinson Group

Represented are the Goin's, the Cellar's, the Gerlach's, Ms. Norton, Mr. Myhill, the Gibb's, the Campbell's and the Vinson's.

Respectfully,
BTO
Formerly known as The Vinson Group