Crystal - St. Raphael
Team Blog Posts
Free Food, Friendship, Faith 7-20-23
We had a glorious summer evening with a light breeze and seventy-two (yes, 72!) people served. Within a few minutes we had served two dozen meals. We had a return "customers" as usual, including one man who usually grabs a…
Read More →Free Food July 13
We had a large crowd, approximately 40 and ran out the hot dogs that we thought we were likely use. That is a great problem to have as we had leftovers our previous weeks. We again had return "customers", and…
Read More →FFFF July 6
We had beautiful weather, but smaller gathering at about 24 people who stopped to eat our "gourmet" meal of hot dogs, baked beans, cole slaw and chips. We again had return "customers" including J... who brought about 6 teens who…
Read More →Two events
This was a busy week for our team. We helped staff a table and provided volunteers for our parish evangelization/community outreach called Free Food, Friendship and Faith. June 22 was our first FFFF event and our turnout was low 14-17…
Read More →6/3/23 Drive Thru Prayer
We had a large crew with three new people joining us today. Many prayer requests and several good conversations. Phil encouraged one woman to return the practice of confession. One Baptist gentleman seemed interested in learning more about the Catholic…
Read More →Road to Bethlehem 12/3/2022
This year Phil and I again set up just outside the entrance to our church in the upper gathering area. Our hope was to attract the attention of some the people entering the church to hear the school children sing…
Read More →Windy Day 11/4/22
Three evangelists showed up for our misty, overcast, cold day. After one hour, we had one Drive Thru and gave out one medal to a gentleman waiting for the bus. Since everything was slowly becoming wet, we decided to back…
Read More →Rake A Thon
The St Raphael School had a wonderful day for its annual service project/fundraiser the Rake A Thon. Evangelists Phil and Sharon were ready with medals, rosaries, pamphlets, and donated Catholic books when rakers returned to the school for a soup…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer 10/1/22
This is from Team Member Phil: One visitor who stopped by our Drive-Thru Prayer event on Oct. 1st, was having various life challenges. It seems he lost his cell phone recently and was on a quest to find it. As…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer 9/2/22
The road and sidewalk in front the church are both being repaired. We were undeterred and set up anyway despite expecting a lower turnout. Man with a child in Pre-K at our parish school was waiting for a bus and asked…
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