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Fall Fair and Yard Sale September 2008 - There was music, there was food, there were bargains by the bag full - but most of all there was fun and fellowship at our latest Fall Fair / Picnic / BBQ / Yard Sale / Car Wash Blow Out Fundraiser. Lots of people having lots of good times - Hawkins Avenue was awash in shoppers, who then got to sit at tables on the lawn and eat some free BBQ and fixin's and listen to some great live music. Much thanks to all who spent the day with us and, of course, all the help was most appreciated.

 

Confirmation Car Wash September 2008 - We soaped! We scrubbed! We sprayed! We rinsed! And when we weren’t doing that to each other, we did the same to all the dirty cars, vans, trucks, etc. that the congregation brought us... all to raise funds toward our December 08 trip to Pennsylvania to see Casting Crowns in concert. Thanks to everyone - students, parents and Confirmation staff - who pitched in to wash and dry!!!

 

Choir BBQ August 2008 - We had a lot of fun, fellowship and, of course, good food at this year’s Choir BBQ at Kenny’s - check out the pic of the cake! Thanks to Lynn for the photos.

 

Memorial Day May 2008 - A great day for a parade! This year, we not only provided iced tea and Lifesavers to the marchers in the annual Ronkonkoma Memorial Day Parade, Holy Cross and Noah’s Ark Preschool marched and passed out flower seed packets to let the community know about our excellent school. “Plant the seeds of learning today, and let Noah’s Ark Preschool lead the way!” Much thanks to our Noah’s Ark participants and to everyone who helped at the Outreach table - Marie Superior, Betty McGill, Bob Lewis, Luisa and Robert Wu (and especially Katie and Nikki), Andrew Goodrich, Sandi Bandows (and especially Jayden), Barbara Rizzo, Billy Quaresimo, Carol Gorton, Lauren Rogers, John Raggie, Tom Moldovan and most especially Barbara Drewes.

 

Family Game Night May 2008 - Another great FGN (Family Game Night) with plenty of prizes, a room full of auction baskets, hot dogs / cup cakes / brownies galore, many, many games of BINGO, horns and poppers and streamers announcing the wins (plus lollipops and dollar bills - ask someone who was there!) and much fun and fellowship in addition to raising $4,000 for our ministry. Oh, and answered prayers regarding a head of hair - check out the pics and see who, plus the smiles that winning Mallomars and a Snack Attack basket can bring. Thanks to Val and Buck Barba, and all the volunteers, Confirmation students, and kitchen staffers who made this successful.

 

Faith Friends April 2008 - Some pics of our younger ones at play - pudding, bubbles and lots of energy equal a recipe for fun! Miss Jenn and Miss Lauren, our FF leaders, keep it all going!

 

WELCA Cookie Exchange December 2007 - In 2007 Holy Cross hosted the annual WELCA Christmas Cookie Exchange, with much sharing of delicious baked treats, fun and faith. You can see some photos of the event here, and make plans to join our WELCA unit at the next exchange in 2008. Yum!

 

WELCA Tuscarora Retreat 2007 - Our WELCA women at their annual conference at the Tuscarora Inn and Conference Center in September 2007. Tuscarora is a Christian Conference Center located in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains along the Delaware River in Mt. Bethel, Pennsylvania.

 

Ronkonkoma Street Fair September 2007 - Thanks to Olympia Daube, Barbara Drewes, Bob Lewis, Betty McGill, Barbara Rizzo, Lorraine Stratman and Arlene Tramazzo for assisting at the Holy Cross Outreach Booth at the Ronkonkoma Street Fair and to all who stopped by to visit!

 

Packing Up School Supplies August 2007 - View the photos of us packing up school supplies - the last pic is of Deacon Chris modeling our Sunday School visor!

 

Picnic Sunday August 2007 - A yummy BBQ right after Sunday services, complete with fun, fellowship and the music of both “Nuts and Honey” and “Mission from God.”

 

Vacation Bible Camp “Avalanche Ranch” July 2007 - Wahoo!!! We had a fun-filled time as we learned about Jesus through this year’s Avalanche Ranch, a wild ride through God’s Word. The stampede of excitement included learning that God is Real, God is With Us, God is Strong, God is Awesome and God is In Charge with our new Bible Buddies: Buc, Shadow, Ranger, Skye and Boss! Wahoo!!! We got to sing along with some great songs at our Sing and Play Stampede, learned Bible stories at our Wild Bible Adventures, watched videos at Chadder’s Wild West Theater, ate some yummy snacks at our Chuck Wagon Chow (yea - Whales!), made some awesome crafts in our Cowpoke Crafts and Missions, played neat games in Horseplay Games (Shark!), and finished up each day with our Showtime Roundup. Thank you to Dorothy Rogers, our VBC Director, to her assistant (and daughter) Lauren and our entire VBC staff. Our God is an Awesome God!

 

Youth Ministries Week of Hope July 2007 - 21 Holy Cross youth and Youth Leaders took God’s Love on the road to Manassas, VA as part of Group Workcamps’ service mission Week of Hope. Our work touched on many needy in that community - the elderly, the handicapped, the homeless, disadvantaged youth and adults - and allowed us to share our faith with the residents there as well as our fellow Campers, youth and leaders from across the USA. Thank you to everyone who made this trip possible. God bless!

 

WELCA Dinner June 2007 - Holy Cross’ unit of the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America held their Annual Welca Dinner on Tuesday, June 12th at the Red Lobster in Ronkonkoma.

 

YM Week of Hope Spaghetti Dinner June 2007 - Our last fundraiser before the trip. Barb and Barb slaved over hot stoves with our youthful staff, we fed spaghetti and meatballs to close to 100 people, Taylor hosted the show, we still don’t know when Elton John’s birthday is, we won some great stuff, got serenaded by Charlie, Virginia and Eileen, and Ethel won the door prize! Thanks everybody, for all your help and hard work!!!

 

LI 2 Day Breast Cancer Walk June 2007 - View the photos from our Outreach Ministries “Angels Watching Over You” Refresh Station along the route of the LI 2 Day Breast Cancer Walk where we distributed refreshments and cheered on the walkers. Whooo!!!

 

Pentecost BBQ May 2007 - Good food, good music, and good friends helped us celebrate the power of the Holy Spirit!

 

Week of Hope Car Wash Spectacular May 2007 - Thank you to everyone for making our Youth Ministries Car Wash / Garage Sale / BBQ / Bake Sale Spectacular truly spectacular! We were blessed with wonderful sunny weather and through your generosity to our efforts you helped us raise $1,260 for our Week of Hope trip in July.

 

Youth Cook-In / Bake-Off 2007 - 44 youth and adults came down to the Fellowship Hall to prepare and deliver 51 delicious, hot meals to homebound and needy members of our congregation and community in this joint Outreach / Youth Ministries activity. Our youth were “Top Chefs” when it came to all our work in the kitchen! The meal this time was meatloaf and gravy, macaroni and cheese, green bean casserole, rolls and dessert. Yummy! We distributed, too, cans of soup from your generous “Souper Bowl” donations. We also sorted, decorated, packed and stacked 120 Valentine Goody Cans with the help of our God Squad 567 members. Check us out!!!

 

J.A.G. and God Squad 567 Christmas / New Year’s Party - You wouldn’t think smearing Vaseline on your face and picking up cotton balls with it would be as entertaining as it was! Check out the pics of our December 2006 Christmas / New Year’s party - DVD Trivial Pursuit (which the team of Kate Georghiou and Tom Moldovan won, no matter what any other team might say!), Bible Hangman, our usual fiercely competitive Scattegories game (no Barb - wet pigs do NOT count as a farm animal that begins with the letter W), Twister and making wrapping paper mummies (Ashley Buttice, are you SURE you can breathe? Nod your head for yes!). Plus a talking Santa in the hall and lots of yummy snacks. Thanks to everyone who joined us, and to Barbara Maurer, Barbara Rizzo, Arlene Tramazzo, Dee Hecker and Marilyn and Tom Moldovan for supervising. Happy New Year!

 

Decorating the Church for Christmas - Some pictures of our own HCLC workshop of elves, led by our Altar Guild Chairperson Lorraine Stark and Deacon Dee Hecker, dressing the church for the splendor of the Christmas celebration.

 

Week of Hope Gift Wrapping Fundraiser - Some of our Week of Hope participants and parents worked this fundraiser for next year’s Work Camp trip. We raised $288.00 toward our July 2007 trip to Manassas, Virginia. We were able to help out Outreach Ministries and wrapped 79 donated toys for distribution to needy families for Christmas. Thank you again to Ann Biondo for donating the four beautiful Gingerbread Churches we raffled off.

 

Christmas Concert - A half-hour Hand Bell Concert followed by our angelic voiced Holy Cross Choir led by Choir Director Ken Zagare, along with guest vocalists Katie Comeau and Tolanda Thomas with Jay Albertson on percussion. We enjoyed a delicious after-concert supper in the Fellowship Hall, and learned how to make some beautiful Christmas crafts. A big thank you to our Hand Bell Choir: Suzanne Beckles, Dee Hecker, Diana Losi, Betty McGill, Cathy Pastena, Louise Stoeber, Susannah Weed and Betty Wright and to Gregory Weissman for leading them; and also to our HCLC Worship Choir: Suzanne Beckles, Janet Benson, Barbara Drewes, Dee Hecker, Karen Leitch, Bob Lewis, Kaylyn Lewis, Werner G. Mayer, Ann Miller, Cathy Pastena, Richard Pastena, Laura Peters, Susannah Weed, Gregory Weissman, Betty Wright and Ken Zagare. Thanks also to Rose and Brittany Roser for providing excellent dinner music, the ladies of WELCA and our Christmas Craft workshop leaders, our volunteer Confirmation student helpers, to Joe Mayer for the wonderful food, to Barbara Drewes for pulling this all together and as always to Pastor Raggie.

 

Week of Hope Pie Baking - Our Week of Hope participants and our Level 3 Confirmation students put their hearts and souls (and flour covered hands) into this Thanksgiving fundraiser for next year’s Work Camp trip.

 

WELCA Bake Sale - The Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America hosted a bake sale table full of goodies just prior to Thanksgiving.

 

J.A.G. (Jesus Adventure Group) Octoberfest Party - Youth Ministries held a blast of a party in October - complete with candy apples, mummy wrapping, apple dunking, pumpkin decorating and root beer floats!

 

Lake House Shelter Halloween Party - Outreach Ministries and Youth Ministries held a party in October for the residents of a local shelter.

 

Gimme Shelter Concert - Our HCLC Concert to raise awareness of the difficulties facing the homeless on Long Island. Featuring international Hip-Hop artist Agapé and our own Mission from God band.

 

WELCA Tuscarora Retreat 2006 - Our WELCA women attended a retreat at the Tuscarora Inn and Conference Center. Tuscarora is a Christian Conference Center located in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains along the Delaware River in Mt. Bethel, Pennsylvania.

 

Holy Cross Fall Fair 2006 - Our Fall Fair this year was a big success in spite of the rain. Thanks to Valerie and Buck Barba, Mary Beth Heinicke, Charlie and Virginia Ward, everyone who helped out and especially to our vendors.

 

Packing Up School Supplies - Thanks to many generous donations, we were able to supply 30 backpacks stuffed with school supplies to needy students this year, plus we packed up “Start of School” gifts for our Noah’s Ark Preschool students and our incoming Sunday School classes.

 

Ronkonkoma Street Fair - Youth Ministries manned a table at the 1st Annual Ronkonkoma Street Fair held in September 2006 and raffled off stuffed animals as a Week of Hope fundraiser and outreach into the community.

 

Memorial Day Parade May 2006 - Youth Ministries and Outreach Ministries provide the usual “iced tea and lifesavers candy” energy boost to the parade marchers as they pass by the church, family and friends cheer on the walkers and our CrossWords & Gifts staff gives passerby a preview of our store merchandise.

 

30 Hour Famine February 2006 - 61 youth and adults fasted for 30 hours and raised over $4,800 toward ending hunger.

 

Work Camp 2005 - Some of our youth and youth leaders went to Dunmore, West Virginia in the summer of 2005 to repair homes for those in need.

 

 

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