Wednesday, July 30, 2008

August:: StAY Alives Month

Traditionally August has always been a very busy month. Preceeding the month in July is the P2H program. P2H is acronym for Penzi Halisi Husubiri a program aimed at encouraging chastity through training and group activities. This time we kicked of with some interesting exchange between the ladies and the jamaaz on their views on each other. Further, facilitators from Crisis Pregnancy Ministry are currently facilitating this activity over the next few Sundays.

Back to August... So why has it tarditionally been busy. Well its the month we have the annual Youth Sunday coupled with StAY Alive's longest running annual event... Down To Beracah - The Concert!!

We shall also be very actively involved in the St Andrews Mission Week 2008 besides planned reachouts to peers within our community... keep it here for details.

Meanwhile, did you know StAY Alive was on Facebook? Link Up!!

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

St Andrews Community Embraces Operation 25

Its now official. The launch of StAY Alives premier fundraising event Operation 25 happened amid applause and great enthusiasm as earlier planned. With a meek target of registering at least 30 walkers from the St Andrews Church (outside StAY Alive membership) the Lord came through with a confirmation that the wider St Andrews Community has embraced the walk concept. The concept doubles up as a fellowship/gettogether for the St Andrews folks and also as a fundraiser for St Alives anti-drugs campaign - KATAA.

Why a confirmation? On launch date we registered a staggering 102 walkers, more than three times the target. At the point of this posting, 176 cards had been distributed with 140 of them having been returned as registered... and still counting.

The plans going forward were articulated by the planning team as:
- all StAY Alive members will be expected to register as walkers.
- all StAY Alive members will further be expected to register at least another three walkers
- members of the KATAA secretariat and officials of StAY Alive will be expected to register at least ten walkers

The target was to register at least 210 walkers and with the enthusiastic response we are well within this target more than two months before walk day.

To register one requires to commit to paying a fee of 1,000/-. One is issued with a card to assist in raising funds for the KATAA Initiative. Whereas registration is 1,000/- walkers are encouraged raise even more funds to the noble initiative.

All registered and paid up walkers will begin receiving the walk tshirts at least two weeks to the walk date.

The planning team will be giving regular updates on registration status, route, funds collected among others.