Gleaners convo

Hi All, The letters for the next distribution will be dropped off at the Post Office this afternoon. There are 87 of them going out including 6 families from our church. Along with the fliers that Caroline is handing out, we should expect a large turnout. I changed the registration time to 12:45 so hopefully people won't have to wait as long. Sally, if you are doing registration this time make sure not to start before then. If we do, people will show up earlier and earlier. Can Dean pick up the carts again? That would be a big help. Also, make sure to let people know on Sunday that it is coming up. Thank you all for everything you do to help out. I really appreciate it. Shalom, Pastor Ron

Hello Everyone, Dean is going to have to work next Saturday again. Dang. We might be able to get the carts though with Jake's truck. I will check with him. If he is home, that should work. Note taken on the registration. Will plan to no start that early. I did run an ad in the Advance and the registration time in the ad says 1:00. That should be OK though. I am attaching a copy of the ad for you to double check. Will see you on Sunday. Well, except for you Hassell's. :0) You have a safe trip and we will be thinking of you and praying for you and for the kids. My heart goes out to you! Blessings, Sal

Hi All (Sorry this got longer than I meant it to be, shouldn't have made that coffee after work. Yes we will mention this Sunday. Every time I get nervous about having enough help - this time I am worried 'about Duke'. Just something to trust about? Oh, I hate learning all of these lessons ... like the one that I have to learn and live this Sunday! :) Last time Hannah and Jimmy got the carts. As nice as it is to have them there still seems to be reluctance getting them from Family Fare. Maybe we need to look other places or learn to do without.Nice ad Sal. Caroline, you should get this for your next flier. Not a big problem but I don't think it mentions our name. But then we don't really have one yet!! :) [Because so many seem to like Victory Chapel I guess that might be it. I'm not real hot on it but not real strong either way. I have been playing with one idea and that is to have a name (any name) in lower case followed by upper case RC. So in this case I would say victoryRC or victory RC. I wanted it to be a little shorter, a little more modern, and the RC stands for Restoration Church. Enough of that tangent]Did you see the front page of the Press today? The top story says Food Banks running out of food. And it mentions again that 1 in 8 in Michigan (from a story several days ago) is on food stamps. It also mentions a person who uses the food bank, and her food stamps are $10/month. Not much. So yes, we will be close if not over this month already. We also need to do some brainstorming maybe sometime before the next one? My dad has been busy collecting donations to use for a debt-retirement auction at 1st church. I'm trying to talk him into considering donating 10% of those proceeds to us. Maybe put together a consistent message and appeal to a variety of places. We'll probably need a letterhead. Whew, that's enough Tim. See ya PS Sal, I might not be able to pull it off but instead of or along with Chapter 7 discussion I have a Tony Compolo message I want to use. Ever since you reminded me of him in your note about Alaina, I've gone to his web site and have listened to about half of those messages again. Thanks

Well, I passed out a flyer today and yesterday and it went to the Community Education, Love store, Dollar General and Goodwill and I kept the registration time the same as we did because no one told me you were changing the time. I said it was at noon and distribution was a t1 pm. We'll have a few early ones and we will still have early ones because some may be going off the old flyer. If I put one around the neighborhood I will change the times. It seems we have too many of us doing this so we need to get together on the times. I'm going out of town next week so I was running around today so I wanted to get the flyers out to the stores. Sorry but I did say NOON this time. If there is an advertisement to go out we need it in our hands earlier. I will talk to Dan at Family Fare on Friday April 11th about picking up the carts at noon so we have them to use to bring the food in. We'll see maybe we can use Troy's truck to get the carts or four people can be dropped off and walk the carts back to the church. We can get the teens to do this. Caroline

You're right Caroline. I know we had talked about the amount of waiting people had to do but we never did set a specific time. My suggestion is that we go with 12:45 from now on. It was onlly when I started to print out the letters that the time change occurred to me. Sorry about the mix-up. Ron

My fault for not getting the ad to you sooner. I had it all OK'd early and everything-just didn't think about it 'til yesterday. :-( Probably will not be able to take Jake's truck. I didn't realize it wasn't insured. Sorry about that. It would be fun for the teens to walk them back. Hopefully it will be a nice day! I feel so out of the loop and can't wait to get back in the church swing of things! Tim, you will do great on Sunday. Let us know if you need anything! Have a safe trip Ron and Vicki! We miss you Vicki! :0) Sal