Crystal - St. Raphael
Team Blog Posts
10/30/21 St Raphael School Rake-A-Thon
The day started a bit nippy as Sharon and Phil greeted families gathering for the annual St Raphael School Rake-A-Thon, a combination service project and fundraiser. Due to time constraints, not all families could stop by our two tables of…
Read More →October 2: Drive Thru Prayer and Knights of Columbus Booya
We had two events lined up for Saturday, October 2 and both of them were lasted less than the anticipated two hours. Rick joined us today for the first time. Rick is a long time member of the St Raphael…
Read More →Drive Thru prayer 8/14 & 9/4
Our team had a new member the past two months. In August, Lisa took a spin up and down the sidewalk in front of the church (see photo below). In September, she helped Sharon pray with passers-by on the sidewalk…
Read More →Frolicking in Crystal with St Raphael School 7/25/2021
The St Raphael SPSE team shared a booth with St Raphael School at the Crystal Frolics Family Festival on Sunday, July 25. As part of the Family Festival, each booth needed an activity for children. Team member Phil had a…
Read More →July 3 Drive Thru Prayer
With a soft breeze to sustain us and young lady dipping her toes to see what street evangelism is, we set up once again in front of St Raphael church on the first Saturday in July. "C" asked the prayer…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer 6/5/21
We had a hot but successful outing. The temperature was 89 at noon when we finished, but we had shade to sit in and a little breeze so God was good to us. Due to the hot weather, we had…
Read More →Women's Retreat
May 15, our parish women's group, the Rosary Society, sponsored a retreat for women with the theme "The Holy Family." Two weeks before the retreat the president of the Rosary Society approached Sharon, Team Lead and Rosary Society treasurer, if…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer May 1
Today's report is from Station Leader Phil Rief as the team leader was unavailable for the event: Saturday May 1st, we set up for a monthly event that's been running since last summer, that we call "Drive Thru Prayer". We…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer 4/3/2021
What a glorious Holy Saturday for our first Drive Thru prayer of the year! All week we have been experience cold weather (well, average-ish temps weather) coupled with strong winds that felt bitter cold. Last night the winds died down…
Read More →Christmas Miraculous Medal give away 12/24-12/27
Originally, we planned to give out Miraculous Medals at Easter, but we needed to postpone until Christmas. Four people bagged medals strung on chains and a Mirculous Medal card in small sealable bags for the Christmas medal giveaway. Still, the…
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