NSD Community Opps!

Hey Guys,

Thank you so much to Liz, Paula, and Robin for helping out with the Helping Hands food sorting this past week!!  I wanted to share a line from an e-mail the director of Helping Hands sent to me about the volunteers from NorthStar Dallas.

God Bless you all.  I thank God for volunteers from NorthStar.

In His Service,
Andrea

Always remember that although something seems small to us, like moving around a few cans, it is huge to the person that needs the cans moved!


BIG GIVE SUMMER LUNCH PROGRAM EACH SUNDAY 6/5-7/31

We are back on this Sunday!  We will be putting the lunches together after service this week in the camp room so feel free to stop by after church and give us hand.

For this week we are still in need of:
6 Volunteers-20 PB & J Sandwiches (pb&j) mixed together and stored in sandwich bags
6 Volunteers-20 individual bags of chips
8 Volunteers-20 individually wrapped brownies
6 Volunteers-20 juice boxes
10 volunteer each week to bring in 20 DECORATED lunch bags
3 volunteers to drive one day a week to deliver the lunches.  It only takes about 1 hour from start to finish and seeing the looks on those kids faces is priceless

We are also still in need of books for the older kids to give away on Fridays.  Also bibles, especially kid and student bibles.  The kids go for any bibles we have before anything else

ADULT LEADER FOR STUDENT MINISTRY
Clay is planning a couple of events during the rest of summer for the middle and high school students and is looking for volunteers. If helping with these great group of kids is something you would be interested in let Clay or myself know.

FIRST ANNUAL BURNT HICKORY BASEBALL ASSOCIATION GOLF TOURNAMENT 7/13
To support Burnt Hickory Youth Baseball Assoc.
If you are interested in playing in the tournament or putting together a team let me know and I will send you the info.

BACK TO SCHOOL BACK PACK AND SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE 7/17
We will be collecting money  to purchase book bags for less fortunate students in the area.  We will also be collecting school supplies to fill the book bags as well.  A list of the supplies we are planning to pack in each back pack is below. Please help us fill these book bags by picking up a few extra things when you are out doing your own school shopping.

a pack of pencils
3 packs of paper

crayons or pens (for teens)

glue sticks

2 spiral notebooks

erasers

4 pocket folders

a one inch 3 ring binder

COMMUNITY MAKEOVER WEEKEND 7/23-24
This is going to be an exciting weekend!  We will be working with many other churches and volunteers in the community doing different projects.  NorthStar Dallas is sponsoring 2 events on Saturday the 23rd.  We are going to start bright and early Saturday morning with both projects.  You can either help by painting at Abney Elementary School or help clean up and organize the old Helping Hands Building, or you can even do both.  Both of these will be going on at the same time so we are going to need A LOT of volunteers for that day.  Please feel free to invite friends, family, and co workers to help us out.  Then on Sunday night the whole community will gather for a HUGE county wide worship service at SAMS parking lot at 6:00 pm! You will not want to miss this weekend!!  So be sure to SAVE THE DATE!  Let me know which projects you want to help out with!

HABITAT FOR HUMMANITY HOUSE DEDICATION 8/20
Even if you were not able to come out and help build we would still love for you to come out and represent NSD as we celebrate the new home owners and bless their new house and new beginning! From what I have heard this is a beautiful and moving day where the home owners get the keys to their brand new house and we all get the chance to see exactly what our hard work produced.  If you would like to go let me know so that we can figure out the car pooling situation.

NSD COMMUNITY WEB SITE
Don’t forget you can always check out what NorthStar Dallas is doing in the community by going to www.northstarchurch.org/nsdcommunity <http://www.northstarchurch.org/nsdcommunity>  . Now there is even a link where you can sign up to volunteer for different things that we have going on.  And as always you can e-mail me at nsdcommunity@northstarchurch.org.

See you Sunday!

Serving for Him,
Crystal Denman NorthStar Community Outreach
NSDCommunity@northstarchurch.org