Saturday, December 3, 2011

Jump on board of the Soup Kitchen gone VIRAL train!!

Yesterday I was able to meet with Regeana Phillips (my mother) and Fr. Augustine at St. Mary's and we came up with the specifics of how to move forward with what we are calling Soup Kitchen gone VIRAL! Which to remind you is simply to spread the JOY and GIVING of Christmas to everyone...remember this isn't about any specific RELIGION this is about the Spirit of Giving...so GET on BOARD!  Let's get this Christmas Dinner in Rock Hill train going.

1st off please visit http://www.christmasdinnerinrockhill.com/ and share on your facebook wall and email to friends.
2nd check the list of ways to donate and pick one...just one or get your entire group, friends, family or job on board.  Anyone can participate before Christmas and even on Christmas morning--
3rd EMAIL  your contact information and what part you want to play in serving in this great Community effort!!!

You will then receive a email confirming what you have committed to doing and we will touch base later!!

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Helping doesn't have to happen on Christmas Day! You can help today!

As little as one person can make this event life changing or up to an entire church, group or organization! Feeding people on Christmas Day can be a stressful time or you can help make it a joyous time.  As days go on I will be updating options to help!

Christmas dinner in Rock Hill- what can you do to help?

Cam & Colby 2009 serving tea
Christmas in Rock Hill is a blog that will be dedicated to making Christmas 2011 one of the best ever!  You see Christmas in Rock Hill is a tradition that I have been participating in since I was 15 years old and I have passed on to my husband and we have passed it on to our boys.  What is Christmas in Rock Hill?  Well most people just call it Christmas dinner at Bannon Hall or St. Mary's Church or Soup Kitchen.. where last year over 700 meals were prepared and delivered to the sick, shut in, less fortunate and some people who just don't have family to eat dinner with and some who don't have money to eat dinner.  That number doesn't include the ones that actually come into the Church for dinner on that day...just to be around other people-This project has touched my life for years and mostly because it crosees all socio-economic boundaries, denominations, ethnicities and anything else that you can think of that separates many of us from everyone else.  Over the upcoming days I will be sharing opportunities for you as an individual can help or your group....one thing is it happens on Christmas Day, but that doesn't mean you have to work on that day (we do), but we will need many things up to the day of the Dinner.  Go ahead and follow the blog here or like us on Facebook (love technology)...this will be the first year that we connect this effort with the community via social media...so let's do it BIG for the community.  I always say this- "you never know, it could be you or your family on the other side of the soup line!"