Woot! Welcome in 2012!
Let’s begin our year with a mind for others and hands for service. Join us as we learn and grow together and have fun along the way.
Jan. 8th – We will meet at All Souls for lunch at 12:30 before heading over to A Hope for a follow-up service project and to hear where our Welcome Home baskets have ended up!
Jan. 15th – To honor Martin Luther King Jr. the All Souls and Trinity EYC will meet at All Souls for the 7 Steps of Non-Violence training. This time will be lead by Steve Norris from Warren Wilson and an organizing trainer for Occupy Asheville. Meet at All Souls at 12:30 for lunch or just join us at 1:00 when we will begin our training.
Jan. 22nd – Service celebration! If you have been able to participate in at least one of the above service learning projects then please join us for a celebration of your service together - we will decide between a dinner out on the town, a movie and dinner night at All Souls or a day at the climbing wall downtown and pizza!
Jan. 29th – Have you heard of Sole Hope? Well, doesn’t it seem fitting that All Souls would benefit this organization that ensure all soles are covered in workable shoes? Check out their website – www.solehope.com – and plan on learning more while cutting some sole patterns to send to places around the world that are learning to make shoes and placing them on people’s feet.
Peace and happy new year to you all!
Milly
In December EYC members caroled at Chiles Ave. and St. Dunstan’s Manor group homes and enjoyed a day at Fun Depot together.
They were proud to hear the Prayers of the People that they wrote as a group used in the liturgy during the Christmas season.
On December 18 they helped out at the Church of the Advocate Christmas party.
The youth finished setting up the St. Nicholas Shop, Robbin Whittington’s very successful idea for how to distribute the shoes, clothing, and household gifts donated by the community. They then handed out the gift bags and shop lottery tickets, and helped “customers” find what they wanted.
All through this rather tiring and hectic afternoon the youth were unfailingly cheerful, courteous, and kind.