Diana Higgs (right) on behalf of SFOT, presents the TV to the delighted winner, Ann McAdam. (18-12-09).
Monday, December 28, 2009
Raffle Winner!
Diana Higgs (right) on behalf of SFOT, presents the TV to the delighted winner, Ann McAdam. (18-12-09).
Raffle Draw - 16th December.
Monika du Sautoy and Diana Higgs drawing the winning raffle ticket for the 32" flatscreen TV. The holder of the winning ticket is Miss Ann McAdam of Fish Hoek. Uwe Hass, chairperson of the trust took the opportunity to thank all the trustees for their support and hard work during the year.
Table At Longbeach Mall 9 - 14 November.
The week of fundraising at Longbeach mall was most successful. Our thanks go to the community for their valued suppport.
Diana Higgs and Monika du Sautoy, trustees of SFOT.
Alana Lochner, (Marketing Manager) Growthpoint with Sir Rupert Bromley, SFOT trustee.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
We Are Steaming Ahead
The Table at the Long Beach Mall prooved to be a great success ,not only financially but also as a means of promoting awareness of our aims to our immediate community.
It also afforded to members and supporters of the Trust to experience fellowship on the road to our first goal-the building and supporting a foster home for orphaned and vulnerable children in Masiphumelele.
We are greatful to Growthpoint,the mangers of The Long Beach Mall for allowing us to
have this week in order to raise funds for our cause at no charge to us .Thanks to Allana Lochner,the Marketing Manager!We are also greatful to our Vice-Chairperson Monika ,who has excelled herself in her organising ability.!Thanks to Liz Hardman who started it all.
We raised roughly R15000 selling calenders,cards,homemade blankets,cookies,toys,bric a brac,flowers and raffle tickets for a 32" LCD TV the draw being the 16 December 2009.Well done guys!!!We hope that the remaining 500 beautiful calenders of our part of the peninsula will sell before they reach the end of their 'Sell By Date' early next year. Anybody who has a good idea phone me. 021 7865487.
All our Trustees and members have been dedicating their time,expenses and donations to our aims- Thank You. We are hopng to have enough funds to start building by the end of 2010 ,God willing. Remember the Kids we are doing it for.
We thank Anna Fernau of St Peter's,Arlington,USA for the donation of $2500 they have earmarked for us and the support from Europe .
We are exited that the following organisations have pledged to support us in selling our calenders:
St Margaret Church Fish Hoek,MOODS Fish Hoek,SJ Kelly Accountants Fish Hoek,Moon Light Meander Muizenberg,SJ Kruger Attorneys Rondebosch,and African Hope Craft Sunny Acres.
Partners in Caring are Holiday Inn Hotels Nationwide ,Lumber City Retreat and First National Bank Long Beach Mall.
Thank you for YOUR support!
In fellowship,
Uwe Hass
Chairperson
It also afforded to members and supporters of the Trust to experience fellowship on the road to our first goal-the building and supporting a foster home for orphaned and vulnerable children in Masiphumelele.
We are greatful to Growthpoint,the mangers of The Long Beach Mall for allowing us to
have this week in order to raise funds for our cause at no charge to us .Thanks to Allana Lochner,the Marketing Manager!We are also greatful to our Vice-Chairperson Monika ,who has excelled herself in her organising ability.!Thanks to Liz Hardman who started it all.
We raised roughly R15000 selling calenders,cards,homemade blankets,cookies,toys,bric a brac,flowers and raffle tickets for a 32" LCD TV the draw being the 16 December 2009.Well done guys!!!We hope that the remaining 500 beautiful calenders of our part of the peninsula will sell before they reach the end of their 'Sell By Date' early next year. Anybody who has a good idea phone me. 021 7865487.
All our Trustees and members have been dedicating their time,expenses and donations to our aims- Thank You. We are hopng to have enough funds to start building by the end of 2010 ,God willing. Remember the Kids we are doing it for.
We thank Anna Fernau of St Peter's,Arlington,USA for the donation of $2500 they have earmarked for us and the support from Europe .
We are exited that the following organisations have pledged to support us in selling our calenders:
St Margaret Church Fish Hoek,MOODS Fish Hoek,SJ Kelly Accountants Fish Hoek,Moon Light Meander Muizenberg,SJ Kruger Attorneys Rondebosch,and African Hope Craft Sunny Acres.
Partners in Caring are Holiday Inn Hotels Nationwide ,Lumber City Retreat and First National Bank Long Beach Mall.
Thank you for YOUR support!
In fellowship,
Uwe Hass
Chairperson
Thursday, October 29, 2009
A Table At The Long Beach Mall
From the 9th to the 15th of November you can buy the most exquisite,beautiful,useful and tasty things this side of the "Lentil Curtain" at our table at the Sun Valley Long Beach Mall.
The Trustees, Members and Supporters of the St Francis Outreach Trust
have excelled themselves in producing exciting products for our fund raising drive
to build and support our first foster home in Masiphumelele.The vulnerable,abandoned and orphaned children of our area deserve no less. They are the real victims of our society!
We will be selling our ST FRANCIS calender, with two months to view pages ,to sit next to your phone or hanging on the wall,featuring the glorious views of our beautiful' Deep South 'in panorama at R 45.00 each. Ideal for your family and friends overseas.There will also be Diaries,greeting cards,needle work,German christmas cookies,cut flowers and tickets for a pre christmas raffle of a flatscreen 32" LCD TV with a 2 year guarantee at R10.
See You There!
The Trustees, Members and Supporters of the St Francis Outreach Trust
have excelled themselves in producing exciting products for our fund raising drive
to build and support our first foster home in Masiphumelele.The vulnerable,abandoned and orphaned children of our area deserve no less. They are the real victims of our society!
We will be selling our ST FRANCIS calender, with two months to view pages ,to sit next to your phone or hanging on the wall,featuring the glorious views of our beautiful' Deep South 'in panorama at R 45.00 each. Ideal for your family and friends overseas.There will also be Diaries,greeting cards,needle work,German christmas cookies,cut flowers and tickets for a pre christmas raffle of a flatscreen 32" LCD TV with a 2 year guarantee at R10.
See You There!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
A Letter from Washington DC
Dear Diana, Monika and Uwe,
I hope you all are well and moving forward with your wonderful project in Masi. I wanted to write and let you know that our church, St. Peter’s, has officially agreed to work with your church on the Masi project and develop a mission program. I met with our Rector a week ago and then our missions Chair this week and they were both very enthusiastic. Today, we had our Service Opportunities Fair at church and I now have a committee of over 15 people to help out with our South Africa missions project. And on November 15th, I will do a presentation to the entire church on the Masi project and how we might be able to help. Also, the new Bishop of Viriginia is meeting with the Diocesan missions coordinator this week to discuss the Diocese involvement with Africa. I’ve been asked to draft a quick memo to brief him on the South African project and our church’s involvement.
I would love to get status updates on how the project is moving forward and what you need help with, now and on a recurring basis as time allows you to provide them. It would also be great to get websites for your church, the Trust, and any Tax ID information you have the shows the non-profit status of the Trust.
In the meantime, I hope to work on various fundraisers through the committee. We will try and see what amount we can send you in the short run from our missions budget (it will be small) and then work out a plan for fundraising over the next year. In addition, several people have mentioned accessing grants (Uwe!!) through the Episcopal church and so we hope to work on preparing applications for those grants here on the US side. Because we are in Washington, we have several people familiar with the grant-making process who can help us navigate that on your behalf.
We have targeted summer (August) 2011 as possible date for a team of St. Peter’s parishioners to visit South Africa. There seems to be a lot of interest and enthusiasm for working with all of you. And of course, the Higgs family is dearly remembered at St. Peters and their participation was quite instrumental in getting this off the ground! Bettie Joy even suggested doing a Maundy Thursday African pancake breakfast as a fundraiser, so I will need to get your recipe Diana for African pancakes. Apparently they were delicious!
Friends, it will be such a blessing to work with you all. Looking forward to it and please let us know in big ways and small how we can help and encourage you in this wonderful project you are undertaking on behalf of these children.
All the best, Anna
Anna Fernau
www.blackandwhitecandids.com
I hope you all are well and moving forward with your wonderful project in Masi. I wanted to write and let you know that our church, St. Peter’s, has officially agreed to work with your church on the Masi project and develop a mission program. I met with our Rector a week ago and then our missions Chair this week and they were both very enthusiastic. Today, we had our Service Opportunities Fair at church and I now have a committee of over 15 people to help out with our South Africa missions project. And on November 15th, I will do a presentation to the entire church on the Masi project and how we might be able to help. Also, the new Bishop of Viriginia is meeting with the Diocesan missions coordinator this week to discuss the Diocese involvement with Africa. I’ve been asked to draft a quick memo to brief him on the South African project and our church’s involvement.
I would love to get status updates on how the project is moving forward and what you need help with, now and on a recurring basis as time allows you to provide them. It would also be great to get websites for your church, the Trust, and any Tax ID information you have the shows the non-profit status of the Trust.
In the meantime, I hope to work on various fundraisers through the committee. We will try and see what amount we can send you in the short run from our missions budget (it will be small) and then work out a plan for fundraising over the next year. In addition, several people have mentioned accessing grants (Uwe!!) through the Episcopal church and so we hope to work on preparing applications for those grants here on the US side. Because we are in Washington, we have several people familiar with the grant-making process who can help us navigate that on your behalf.
We have targeted summer (August) 2011 as possible date for a team of St. Peter’s parishioners to visit South Africa. There seems to be a lot of interest and enthusiasm for working with all of you. And of course, the Higgs family is dearly remembered at St. Peters and their participation was quite instrumental in getting this off the ground! Bettie Joy even suggested doing a Maundy Thursday African pancake breakfast as a fundraiser, so I will need to get your recipe Diana for African pancakes. Apparently they were delicious!
Friends, it will be such a blessing to work with you all. Looking forward to it and please let us know in big ways and small how we can help and encourage you in this wonderful project you are undertaking on behalf of these children.
All the best, Anna
Anna Fernau
www.blackandwhitecandids.com
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Just wanted to share some of the photos taken on a trip with Pippa Shafer (from the organisation from Home from Home) when we visited Khayelitsha and Pelican Park. 'Home from Home' run 17 foster homes and we from SFOT will run our first foster home along the same lines. What struck me the most was the dedication of the house mothers. I came away feeling humbled and with great admiration for those women putting heart and soul into looking after their adopted families.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Welcome to the St Francis Outreach Trust blog!!
Hello all
This is the first entry for our blog, so I'd just like to say WELCOME and hope your association with us is a memorable and fruitful one. In this blog we will keep you up to date with what's going on in our organisation, and what progress we are making to achieving our goals. It's going to be an exciting journey, and we're glad to have you along with us.
Please feel free to post comments and to interact with the Trust committee and other Friends of the Trust. You keep the Trust going so that we can do the work that is so desperately needed in our country, and we want you to be alongside us all the way...
Our website is almost up and running! We'll keep you posted when it does...
God Bless, and visit again soon.
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