Category Archives: Back to School
Back to School Outreach
We handed out around 140 backpacks filled with school supplies for our annual Back-to-School Outreach in August. We did things a little differently this year. We wanted the families to make some sort of contribution to their school supplies to give a sense of empowerment and ownership. At the same time, we still wanted to […]
Back-To-School Outreach
The lack of blog posts recently is due to the fact that we just finished handing out backpacks and school supplies to around 220 kids at the North Grand Villas, Cypress Creek Apartments, and several places in-between. Thanks to all of you who gave, shopped, or helped hand out supplies. I definitely couldn’t do […]
Back-to-School (Part 2)
All right. Back to blogging. Following our pictures of our first ever back-to-school party at Cypress Creek held on Saturday, August 21. Just like at NGV, John and Brenda grilled up some hotdogs, we haned out backpacks, and measure for shoes. Around 65 kids got backpacks, and we took care of shoes for 50 or so. It […]
Back-to-School Fun, Part 1
Whew. I’m finally able to find a little bit of time to blog. We’ve finished our annual Back-to-School Outreach. We’ve handed out somewhere around 225 backpacks filled with supplies to kids and are in the process of giving out shoes to about 130 kids, thanks to Jeff Parsons and his ”A Step Up” shoe ministry. It’s […]
Kickin’ it Old School
Every once in a while, we sing and do motions to the classic song “Lean on Me.” The song and motions have been around 20 plus years, but that doesn’t stop the kids from enjoying them. Below are pics of us doing the song at Rose Plaza last week: Oh, and since Suzanne had her camera […]
Rose Plaza Back-To-School Party
I’m finallly getting around to posting pictures from last week’s Rose Plaza party. We picked up the kids and went to Forrest Hill Park. Several families from the apartments joined us as well, so we probably had 30 or so people playing and eating hotdogs. Just like at our party last year, we handed out […]
Back to School
We’ve been consumed with backpacks and school supplies over the last couple of weeks. On Saturday, we had our back-to-school party at the North Grand Villas, and when all was said and done, we gave away packs and supplies to around 120 kids. We’ll give away another 25 or so this afternoon at our Rose […]
First Day of School
I took this picture last Monday. It was Tae’s first day of kindergarten, and I don’t think his body was quite prepared for a full day of school. He crashed in the middle of Bible study. This was typical of most of the kindegergartners I work with. Either they were asleep when I came by […]
Rose Plaza Back-to-School Party
I’m finally getting to this a week later – busy, busy times. Last Monday (August 18) we had a wet, wild, and slightly cold back-to-school cookout and backpack handout party for the Rose Plaza kids. We went out to Forest Hill Park and cooked hotdogs. After about 15 minutes, it began to rain pretty steadily. […]
North Grand Villas Back-to-School Party
Mission 2540 just finished handing out backpacks to around 125 kids. I thought it was going to be 115 kids until late last week when we had 10 late sign-ups. Thankfully we were able to get those kids fixed up as well. Thanks to all who took time to shop for kids or hand out […]
