The proceeds from this Yard Sale will help to offset the costs of sending these Youth (and their chaperones) to the 2012 ELCA National Youth Gathering in New Orleans next year. The goal is to raise as much of the estimated cost of $1500 for each person as possible. Your purchase at our Yard Sale will help us on the fund-raising journey to make that happen.Three years ago when our Youth attended this gathering, they took a special banner with them to remind them of the one person missing from their group whose smile is very much missed among them.
In 2006, our congregation lost a member of our Youth to acute myeloid leukemia. She was 16. She was good friends with all the kids from St. Andrew who attended the 2009 Gathering. So in her honor they brought a banner displaying her face and the message that she would be transformed along with them. The kids tied the banner to the Super Dome railing, along with hundreds of other banners from churches around the country. It helped them to remember that she was with them in spirit. Stani would have LOVED sharing the experience of the National Youth Gathering.
Next summer, this next bunch of kids plan to take this banner with them again. Among the group will be Stani’s sister.
So your purchase at this Saturday’s Yard Sale will not only help a bunch of Youth to have the experience of a lifetime, you will help keep a memory alive… the memory of a very special sixteen year old girl whose smile would light up any room and whose personality you could not help but enjoy.
Jesus lived in Stani. Now she lives with him.
Come SHOP!
May 7, from 8:00 am until 3:00 pm
St. Andrew Lutheran Church
335 Reynolds Ave.
Parsippany, NJ 07054
(973) 887-6713
Directions click here
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