The 23rd Annual World Hunger Bike Ride is Saturday, June 2.
Help raise money for Heifer International, the Church of the Brethren Global Food Crisis Fund,
RAM and Heavenly Manna Food Bank in Rocky Mount. The ride begins at Antioch Church of the Brethren, located at 2996 Callaway Road in Rocky Mount. The ride has courses of five, 10, 25 or 50 miles along with rest stops.
The ride begins at 8 a.m. at Antioch Church of the Brethren. There is a $15 registration fee–and riders can get sponsors for extra donations to the cause. The registration form and more info can be found online at www.worldhungerauction.org (look under event calendar), or call 540-389-1381 or 540-483-4173.
Jenny Quakenbush's oboe students performed on Sunday, May 6, at Cave Spring United Methodist Church. Photo courtesy of Jenny Quakenbush.
Jenny Quakenbush shares this photo and says:
Oboe students of Jenny Quakenbush performed in a recital on Sunday, May 6 at Cave Spring United Methodist Church. The students were accompanied by pianist Carla Crouse.
Performing were Laken Ayers of Cave Spring Middle School; Ryan Iler, Lauren Hirsch, Juliana Crouse and Emily Chrisman of Cave Spring High School; Sidney Thompson and Rachael Thayer of Hidden Valley Middle School; Patrick Kelley of Northside Middle School; Amy Allen of Glenvar High School and Robert Staniunas of William Fleming High School.
Faith Christian School, a distinctively Christian classical school serving students in grades K – 12, is pleased to share that its senior class of 2012 has raised money for a new sign outside of the school on Buck Mountain Road.
A project of FCS parent Jennifer Baldwin, the sign was built by Daniel Quinn, Contractor for Innovative Applications Corporation, and signage and lettering was ordered and handled by the owner of Salem Printing, John Mitchell.
The FCS Senior class raised funds this year through sales of Butter Braids at Christmastime to raise the $2,900 necessary for the new sign that will help with ongoing communications to the school community and others driving by Faith Christian School.
Much thanks to Jennifer Baldwin, Daniel Quinn, John Mitchell and the senior class for this wonderful gift!
The students and staff members at Faith Christian School gathered together in an assembly the week after their annual service day, Project Faith, which was held on Friday, April 27.
Students, staff members and parents all came together to offer some much-needed volunteer hours to several organizations in the area. This year’s Project Faith served Manna Ministries, Charity Cottage and the Rescue Mission in Vinton and Feeding America Southwest Virginia in Salem. Representatives from each organization stopped by during the assembly to thank the students for their hard work.
The fresh paint and the colorful mural were a big improvement to the Manna Ministries space, according to Ron Willard, who is on the Board at Manna–which serves 1,000 families a month! That hard work was matched at Charity Cottage. “Every time I turned around, someone was doing…everything!” said Linda Mahoney of Charity Cottage.
One hundred and sixty volunteers turned out at the Rescue Mission–and the excitement to work was palpable! Leslie Littlefield, volunteer coordinator at the Rescue Mission, said that the FCS volunteers were “eager beavers” and “almost fanatic at [their] tasks!” Likewise, at Feeding America, around 15,000 pounds of food were moved in just three hours!
Apart from being an incredible volunteer resource for the community, Project Faith acts as a fundraiser for Faith Christian School. Each year, the students set their goals high. They send an enormous number of letters out to potential donors prior to Project Faith.
The Lower School students set a goal to raise $80,000 this year. They easily surpassed that, raising a total of $88,335! The Middle and Upper School students set their goal at $55,000 and raised a whopping $81,936.90!
With an additional $26,000 from corporate sponsors, this year’s Project Faith grand total was $196,574.02.
Said Project Faith coordinator Stacey Lilley to the students, “it’s truly humbling the blessing God’s doing through you guys.”
Nancy Wheeler will be the presenter of the Ninth Ecumenical Beatitude Study: Greatly Honored Are you Who Put Your Honor on the Line for Christ’s Sake.
This is the concluding session of this community-wide study which meets on the third Thursday, May 17, from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. in the Disciples Hall at Fort Lewis Christian Church, located at 2931 West Main Street in Salem.
Terry Corsale shares these photos of Shannon Nunnally and her second-grade class at Faith Christian School volunteering at the Rescue Mission during Project Faith on April 27.
Friday, April 27 marked the 11th annual Project Faith, a community service project at Faith Christian School.
All students from Kindergarten through 12th grade helped to provide community services to several organizations. This year, the students, staff and parent volunteers at FCS helped Manna Ministries, Charity Cottage and the Rescue Mission in Vinton and Feeding America Southwest Virginia in Salem.
Their help was well-received and much needed: Manna Ministries served around 700 people on Thursday evening, April 26.
The volunteers helped to paint, clean, pull weeds, sort donations, spread new mulch, make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and tossed salad, create table favors with inspirational quotes and much more. The art students at FCS also painted a mural at Manna Ministries.
In line with their theme this year, “Feed My Sheep,” the students helped to prepare “6,000 ‘gleaning bags’ for Gleaning America’s fall fruit harvest, which will go to help feed the hungry” according to Susan Childs at Faith Christian School.
Also according to Childs, fundraising efforts as part of Project Faith has totaled over $1 million in the last 11 years, and the last three years alone have totaled over $500,000. (Be sure to check back here for more information on final tallies next week!)
Working indoors and out, the students, parents, staff members and volunteers were certainly lucky to have such beautiful weather on Friday.
“We’ve been doing this for 11 years,” said Sam Cox, Head of School at Faith Christian, “and we’ve had no rain on the day of Project Faith so far. It’s poured the day before or the day after, but not on that day.”
Faith Christian School students Graham and Davis Lilley meet Virginia Tech football standout David Wilson. Photo courtesy of Tim Lilley.
Tim Lilley shares this photo and says:
My two sons, Graham and Davis Lilley, first and third graders at Faith Christian School, with Virginia Tech football standout, David Wilson. As you probably know, David is last year’s ACC football player of year and is expected to be selected [this] week in first or second round of NFL draft. He was at Gobbler Gear store in Salem [on Friday, April 20] signing autographs and posing for pictures. The boys are so excited that they got to meet him!
Rosalind Hills Baptist Church (RHBC) announces the opening the Rosalind Hills Baptist Church Child Development Center (CDC), 2005 Langdon Road, Roanoke.
The church will celebrate this new ministry with an Open House weekend scheduled for Saturday, April 28 from 12 to 5 p.m. and Sunday, April 29 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. The CDC is located on the same property as the church.
The Child Development Center is accepting applications for afterschool care for the fall 2012 school year. Families are invited to attend the Open House to tour the facility and meet staff members.
RHBC is excited to offer this new ministry. The program is a family-focused, Christ-centered, afterschool-care option for children in Roanoke. It is a safe, fun, Christian program where parents can feel comfortable leaving their children knowing they are loved and receiving quality childcare.
Transportation from Grandin Court, Virginia Heights and Wasena Elementary schools is provided.
For more information contact, Cathy Harris, Minister to Children, at 344-7888 or the CDC office at 339-9369. You can also visit our website at www.rosalindhills.org/CDC for tuition information and to download an enrollment application.
Gray Smith submitted his article ”Marathon Memorial” about his experience in the Blue Ridge Marathon this year:
I did not run the Blue Ridge Marathon last year. After Lazarus Saturday liturgy at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, I attended a funeral mass for Daniel Maloney at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church. Daniel ran track at Cave Spring High School with my sons.
I was on call chaplain at Carilion Clinic the night Daniel entered the hospital after a car accident. I prayed for him and with his family at his bedside in ICU for a week. After his funeral, an angry storm unleashed strenuous winds, flash flooding forcing runners off the marathon course.
Training for the National College Blue Ridge Marathon this year did not go well. My weight was up from when I ran the premier marathon two years ago, allergy season was early, and my mileage low. During a run near Lazarus Saturday, I decided to run the marathon in Daniel’s memory.
I arrived at the starting line with little sleep, asthma choking me, and my satellite watch refusing to download.
John Carlin introduced Bill Rogers to the crowd. On my way to the starting line, I stepped toward Mr. Rogers, shook his hand, told him how he was my hero when I was a teenage runner for Cave Spring, and thanked him for coming. He said, “You’re doing it today!” Excited by meeting Bill Rogers, I forgot to begin my prayers.
Sheepishly, I wrested my prayer rope from my wrist and started praying for Daniel. Read more »
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