Valley Catholic Schoolchildren Help In Hundreds Of Ways

Sat., Feb. 12, 2000

By Nina Culver nculver47@gmail.com

Students in the Spokane Valley’s Catholic schools have been busy since September collecting everything from mittens to soap to books for distribution to needy people in the community.

The effort by the Valley students is part of a larger, citywide effort called “100 Ways in 100 Days,” in which students in all 11 Spokane area Catholic schools were challenged to collect items in groups of 100 or more during the first 100 days of school.

Overall, the effort resulted in more than 13,000 items collected and donated to programs and services run by Catholic Charities.

Faculty and student representatives from each school joined Bishop William Skylstad for a short prayer service last week marking their achievement.

Students in different grades at St. John Vianney Catholic School collected different things. Preschoolers gathered 100 sponges; kindergarten students gathered 100 children’s mittens; first-graders collected 100 markers; second-graders brought in 200 wash cloths; third-graders brought in 100 bars of soap; fourth-graders collected 100 rolls of paper towels; fifth-graders gathered 50 bars of soap and 50 packs of deoderant; sixth-graders brought in 200 bars of hand soap; seventh-graders brought in 100 cans of soup; and eighth-graders gathered 100 children’s books.

Students at St. Paschal’s Catholic School collected 200 cans of soup, 100 boxes of crayons, 100 writing tablets, 100 pencils and 200 packages of diapers.

Students at St. Mary’s Catholic School collected 400 boxes of tissues. Programs on the receiving end of the students’ generosity include Housing Social Services, St. Margaret’s Shelter, Senior Services, Childbirth and Parenting Alone, Refugee Resettlement Program, Partners for Community Living, St. Anne Child and Family Center and the House of Charity.

Dare to Care seminar

A Dare to Care seminar will be presented Friday and next Saturday at Foothills Community Church, 11102 N. Forker Road.

The event will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

The featured speaker will be Don Audrey, executive director of Dare to Care, which is a national ministry designed to help churches meet the needs of people in their area.

The seminar is free and advance registration is requested. A free lunch will be provided on Saturday. Call the church office at 926-4971 for more information or to register.

God’s gifts Bible study

Christ Lutheran Church, 13009 E. Broadway, will offer a special Bible study class called “Our Response to God’s Gifts to Us” Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Childcare will be provided and refreshments will be served.

Good Shepherd benefit

The youth of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will benefit from a dinner and auction today at 6 p.m. at the church, 810 S. Sullivan Road.

The oral bidding begins at 7 p.m. and a silent auction will also run during the evening.

Items up for bid include a variety of gift baskets, Schweitzer Mountain lift tickets, tickets to area sporting events, crafts, a buffalo dinner, a mystery night dinner, boat trips on area lakes, quilts and watercolor paintings.

Proceeds from the evening will be used to send church youth to summer camp.

Valley Nazarene auction

The Spokane Valley Church of the Nazarene is planning a spaghetti dinner and auction next Saturday at 4 p.m. The silent auction bidding begins at 5 p.m. and oral auction begins at 6:45 p.m.

Items up for bid include themed gift baskets, dinners at area restaurants, and an all expenses paid trip to an NFL game. Proceeds will benefit programs of the Women’s and Men’s Ministries.

The dinner is $2 per person or $8 per family. The event will be held next door to the church at Broadway Elementary, 11016 E. Broadway.

Missionary to Japan speaks

Missionary Jim Davis will speak during the Sunday worship services at the Valley Assembly of God Church, 15618 E. Broadway.

The services begin at 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Davis and his wife spent many years as missionaries in Japan and now travel to missions around the world to teach and offer encouragement to other missionaries.

All are welcome to attend.

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