Volunteer Christmas Party 2011

Monday, December5, Living Water had their 2nd annual Volunteer Christmas Party. The amazing thing about that was it was in the middle of Borger's first snow storm of the season. Snow was still coming down sideways when our party started. We were amazed by our great turnout!

Prime Time Party Zone created our balloon decorations.

Prime Time Party Zone also created this balloon Christmas tree! Becky stood beside this tree to give you perspective of it's size. So cute!!

We had our party at Dake's restaurant and had a fajita bar. We also had an auction to raise funds for Living Water. It was so much fun!

We gave out our Living Legends awards.

Here, Gib Welch receives the "Wise Cracker" award.

Lacy De LosSantos and her guest. Lacy is one of our new volunteers.

George & Mary Jean Nies

Arnie, Cindy, Christian & Melody Torio and Micah Scheffler

Taylor, Selena & Jeff McClellan

Our snowman party favors.

Our 2nd annual Volunteer Christmas Party was a huge success!

Christmas Wish List

Living Water's Christmas Wish List

MercyHand--$7500.00

MercyHand is a computer software that would not only benefit Living Water, but other agencies & churches in our community. This software tracks clients so we would know where each client is being helped and who has helped them and how much they've been helped. You can check it out here: MercyHand. Similar software is three times this price.

Projector & Screen--approx. $600.00

This would benefit our training classes.

We REALLY, REALLY want MercyHand!!

And we've been extra good--I promise!

Thanksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving at Living Water begins weeks before the Friday we give out the food.

It begins with lots of volunteers packaging food for us.

It comes in one Bag of Blessing at a time by people in our community.

Volunteers spent weeks collecting boxes for us to use for our frozen food we gave away.

But this morning, boxes lined up from one end of the food room...

to the other end of the food room!

Cairl, our food room director, gave out directions early this morning.

And then George and Micah went and picked up the turkeys.

Volunteers gathered early this morning to pray over our morning.

We wanted everyone who came to be blessed.

Stephanie Spangler and Walgreens blessed us with free flu shots!

Lots of people took advantage of those free flu shots.

As we began our service, we asked for people to share what they were thankful for.

Then Mrs. Phyllis taught us all how to say "God is love" in sign language. It was beautiful to watch!

Here's Mrs. Phyllis signing as Thomas sings.

Dwight Kirksey, pastor of Celebration Family Church in Fritch, blessed us with a message this morning.

He told us about a cross he received for Christmas one year.

After the service, we began giving out the holiday groceries to about 120 families.

It was well organized and people didn't have to wait long.

We have some happy volunteers---they love blessing others!

And we had some new volunteers this morning. We're always excited about that!

We just can't believe Thanksgiving has come and gone at Living Water. We want to thank everyone who participated--either by giving a Bag of Blessing or volunteering. It was a great day!

Truck Day

Thursdays is Truck Day at Living Water. And I just wanted to give you a little window to see what we do up here on Thursdays.

We have some special ladies who bag things for us.

This is our truck driver, Al.

He is quite adept at moving a pallet of food. Micah delivers coffee and donuts to him when he gets here.

We have so many GREAT volunteers who come and help us!

They're ready to help with anything. In fact, some of these guys replaced 4' light bulbs for me today while we waited on the truck.

Lots of lifting goes on here on Thursdays.

And lots of carting around...

And we always end up with stacks of things to put up. I don't know what we'd do without our wonderful volunteers! They're the BEST!

Happy Birthday, Selena!

After realizing that yesterday was Selena's birthday, our volunteers came in to sing "Happy Birthday" to her! I told them they needed to go on the road they sounded so good.

Happy Birthday, Ms. Selena!

What in the world would we do without you here at Living Water?

New Shirts

Our new logo designed by Brock Plumley.

This past week, we got our new shirts with our new logo on them. We're pretty excited. And today our volunteers all showed up with their new shirts on, so I had to take their picture. Don't they look great?

New Volunteers

We're always excited about new volunteers at Living Water. But today was extra-exciting! These three boys were on their way to the library with their aunt when they drove by and saw us unloading our food truck. They begged to stop and help! So they came in and helped put up some of our groceries...and then we found them other jobs to do.

From left to right: Nate, Tyler & Austin. They didn't mind pushing around a broom and cleaning our chapel.

Here they are with their Auntie Julie--what a crew!

I'm so excited these three brothers have a heart to help. I can't wait to see how God is going to use them when they get big. They're already off to a great start!

Wal-Mart Grant

Recently, Living Water was awarded a grant of $1000 by the Wal-Mart Foundation. Derek Thompson presented the check to Becky Dietz, our Director, at our local Wal-Mart store. The grant was given to us as a participant in hunger relief in our area. We're proud to be a part of this great effort!