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Chapelwood VBS acceptance allowance a barbecue table for Centro Familiar Esperanza's Elevation Station.
Chapelwood VBS acceptance allowance a barbecue table for Centro Familiar Esperanza's Elevation Station.
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Chapelwood VBS acceptance add book to a barbecue table for Centro Familiar Esperanza's Elevation Station.
Chapelwood VBS acceptance add book to a barbecue table for Centro Familiar Esperanza's Elevation Station.
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Chapelwood VBS acceptance ample accoutrements with aliment items for commitment to the East Spring Branch Aliment Pantry.
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Chapelwood VBS acceptance ample accoutrements with aliment items for commitment to the East Spring Branch Aliment Pantry.
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Chapelwood VBS acceptance ample accoutrements with aliment items for commitment to the East Spring Branch Aliment Pantry.
Chapelwood VBS acceptance ample accoutrements with aliment items for commitment to the East Spring Branch Aliment Pantry.
Chapelwood VBS projects focus on allowance others
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Helping others was advanced and centermost aftermost anniversary at Chapelwood UMC’s Vacation Bible School.
A accumulation of fifth- and sixth-grade acceptance led a aliment accumulating drive, on Friday bushing 151 accoutrements with assorted staples for commitment to the East Spring Branch Aliment Pantry, with extra items activity to Shear Blessings in a Backpack and Fairhaven Aliment Pantry.
The acceptance additionally corrective four barbecue tables, donated by the Home Depot abundance in Spring Valley and the one at Westheimer and Dunvale — two for Centro Familiar Esperanza’s Elevation Station, one for SpringSpirit Baseball and one for the Spring Branch Family Development Center.
The tables are a “hands-on” blazon activity that helps animate the students, said VBS abecedary Kristi Dina.
“It’s article that we’ll do every year, article that will become our trademark,” Dina said Friday, as the finishing touches were actuality activated to a table for Esperanza.
The account aspect of VBS was brought up aftermost year, Dina said, back acceptance calm toiletries and sundries for Gracewood Ministries, and was ramped up a cleft this year.
Students were guided by their anamnesis Bible verse, Matthew 5:16: “Let your ablaze flash afore men, that they may see your acceptable accomplishments and acclaim your Father in heaven.”
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Each akin of VBS acceptance was asked to accompany in aliment items, with academy aliment and brief affected aliment advance amid specific age groups.
The academy aliment will go to Esperanza, while the affected aliment — sheets, towels, flashlights, allowance cards, etc. — will go to Westside Homeless Partnership for applicant accouchement who accept accustomed scholarships to appear Affected Allen this summer.
Dina said 3,161 aliment items were donated during the anniversary of VBS, appreciably added than the ambition of 2,500.
“The kids get so aflame — the numbers are important to them,” she said. “They like to see how abundant (has been collected).”
The tables activity to Esperanza, a Spanish-speaking admiral of Chapelwood that serves Spring Branch’s immigrant community, accept appropriate acceptation to abounding of the VBS students, said abecedary Jennifer Scheland.
“A lot of Chapelwood kids are complex with Esperanza,” Scheland said. “They’ll get to see their tables there, and they apperceive the kids who are activity to account (from the tables).”
The VBS acceptance on Friday heard from Melissa Peter of Shear Blessings in a Backpack, who explained her organization’s mission of bushing backpacks with aliment to accelerate home with underpriveleged accouchement on weekends during the academy year.
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She explained the angle of “food deserts” and how abounding accouchement eat breakfast and cafeteria at academy but accept little or no aliment back they’re at home.
A collective affairs amid Holy Spirit Episcopal and Memorial Drive UMC, Shear Blessings in a Backpack accumulated and delivered added than 5,000 accoutrements of aliment aftermost academy year to Blackshear Elementary acceptance in Houston’s Third Ward.
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