Day of Service 2010

Stake: Gastonia North Carolina

Mallory Panell, David Arce, and Ashton Page write letter to soldiers in Afghanistan.

Community Partners: YMCA
Religious Partners:Ebenezer AME Zion Church Organization Served: US Army Engineering Battalion serving in Afghanistan
Influencers: None
Total people involved: 15
Total volunteer hours: 75

The Primary children were at the Y.M.C.A. participating in a project where they collected care package items for an Engineering Battalion of one of our ward members currently serving in Afghanistan. They gift wrapped the items, as well as drew pictures, wrote letters and made cards for the servicemen.  Four of our members also cleaned our church building during the service project as their gift to the Day of Service.

Email from Cheri Pardue:  Still finishing up on some of the Day of Service info. We just spent 12 hours filling out postal forms and boxing all of the donations we collect for Afghanistan. We had a break down when our committee chairman’s baby was born right after and the packages had to be put on hold since it was a special needs baby that had to have surgery.
Not to worry, the daddy dropped the boxes off to me yesterday, and I had to peek into every wrapped package because the PO needed the name of the article, the weight and the cost. My kids and I went on a scavenger hunt through Walmart to find all the prices. I thought the forms had been filled out already, but…they were just laid aside that day. Yikes!
we ended up with 10 flat rate boxes full of articles for the soldiers. They are going in the mail this morning. Hooray!
That part done!

York Ward primary children wrap gifts for soldiers.

Contact Person: phosford

Name of Organization:

US Army - Engineering Battalion in Afghanistan

Location and Time:

Meet at the YMCA at 9:00 a.m.

Activity/responsibility:

One of our ward members is currently serving in Afghanistan in the army.  We plan to make a giant care package to send to her and her comrades.

Tools or skills required:

Please bring hygiene items

Ages:

Primary children

Additional Notes:

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Links:

Contact Person: Cheri Pardue

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Name of Organization:

Ebenezer AME Zion Church

Location and Time:

Info to come

Activity/responsibility:

The York Ward has chosen Ebenezer AME.Zion Church as their service project this year.  They will paint the inside and outside of their chapel, paint their sign and plant petunias under it.  The plumbing lines will be rerouted to be able to sheetrock their bathrooms and paint those.  In addition, they are filling in some graves that have sunken and restoring some of their cemetery as well as recording the graves for the genealogical website and their church records. 

Tools or skills required:

See sign up sheets

Ages:

16+

Additional Notes:

Download flyer:

Links:

Contact Person: Cheri Pardue

Volunteer Now!