There
is nothing like starting a new month with a HUGE fundraiser and doing a stage announcement,
volunteer call, at all three services! What an amazing morning. Our community
once again came out to support our teens. We
only had a handful of small holiday wreaths remaining. Our net profit was
$1850.00 (though I think we added a few extra donations beyond that.) The best
news was that when I met with Anne to review our teen finances, I was able to
100% scholarship our qualified teens for CSL Winter Camp. Yahoo!
On
the volunteer front, former volunteer Heidi Jones has rejoined our Nursery team!
She agreed to fill in two times each month to help cover our shortage, then
will likely move to a fixed Sunday. To date, I’ve received three volunteer applications. As of this
report, I am scheduling volunteer meetings to review our youth program and to
find the best fit for each of them. One has great potential to become a
classroom teacher, and I am over the moon
about that.
Back
to our teens. We are in the final week of Winter camp registrations, and whew, it has been a busy week. Several of
our parents took me up on the offer to
register their teens in-house. This also
gave me the opportunity to have one-on-one meetings with the parents and do a more in-depth check in with them. At present we
look to have 11 teens attending the Northern California Winter camp. Danna
Iversen, as a member of CSL teen leadership,
will be attending the North Carolina camp, pending the final registration
totals. I have secured two additional advisors to support us, Emily Jansen-Adan
and Kristine Anderson. Both recently completed
and updated their online advisor training.
On
December 7-8, I attended an off-site youth director/advisor meeting. This was an informal gathering to lay the groundwork for a potentially larger gathering
in 2019. Our agenda topics included
balancing service and self-care to avoid burn out, personal growth and
spiritual support, fundraising, volunteer recruitment, best practices,
curriculum resources, how “family” fits into
youth and family, teen overnights, and looking ahead to 2019. We came away with
commitments from CSL San Jose to host a Spring teen overnight and from us in
Santa Rosa to hold a fall teen overnight.
With
loving gratitude,
Susan
Robinson, RScP
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