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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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