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The Independent 7
July 18, 2013
Inter-Faith seeks program sponsors Ready, Set, School helps kids get ready for fall semester By Tom Munds
tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com Inter-Faith Community Services seeks to sign up sponsors who will help prepare more than 1,000 kindergartners through eighthgraders from needy families for the first day of school. “We have about 550 children on the list for our Ready, Set, School program that provides each child a backpack, school supplies and an outfit for the first day of school. Right now, we need sponsors for 88 of those children,” said Sandra Blythe-Perry, InterFaith director. “We also need people to help us provide backpacks and school supplies for another 500 children.” A Ready, Set, School sponsor Backpacks and tables weighed down with school supplies fill most of the room last year for distribution time for Inter-Faith Community agrees to provide a backpack, a Services’ Ready, Set, School program. Inter-Faith hopes to distribute school supplies and a new outfit to 550 children and a backpack and school gift certificate for a pair of shoes, supplies to an additional 500 children this year. File photo age-appropriate school supplies and at least one new outfit, along name, age and clothing sizes of we’ll do our best to accommodate Set, School sponsor, there is a way with socks and underwear. The a child, the youngster’s hobby, them.” provided. total cost, depending on the age favorite color and school grade,” Since she knows there will be “We invite people to contribof the child, is $100 to $300. Blythe-Perry said. “If a sponsor individuals who want to help but ute what they can, such as a back“We provide the sponsor the asks for a specific age or gender, may not be able to be a Ready, pack and some school supplies,”
Castle Rock
Highlands Ranch
Parker
Parker
Parker
First United Methodist Church 1200 South Street Castle Rock, CO 80104 303.688.3047 www.fumccr.org
Services:
Saturday 5:30pm Sunday 8am, 9:15am, 10:30am Sunday School 9:15am Little Blessings Day Care www.littleblessingspdo.com
Open and Welcoming
Sunday Worship 8:00 am Chapel Service 9:00 & 10:30 am
Sunday School 9:00 & 10:30 am
www.st-andrew-umc.com
Welcome Home!
Weaving Truth and Relevance into Relationships and Life
worship Time 10:30AM sundays
Affiliated with United Church of Religious Science
303-794-2683 Preschool: 303-794-0510
Castle Rock Recreation Center 2301 Woodlands Blvd, Castle Rock
9203 S. University Blvd. Highlands Ranch, 80126
303 798 6387
CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING Sunday Services 10 a.m.
www.OurCenterforSpiritualLiving.org 720-851-0265
4391 E Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado 80134 Church Office – (303) 841-3836
www.parkerbiblechurch.org
303-791-3315
pastor@awlc.org www.awlc.org
A place for you
Lutheran Church & School
GRACE PRESBYTERIAN Alongside One Another On Life’s Journey
You are invited to worship with us:
Sundays at 10:00 am
Sunday Worship 8:00 & 10:45 a.m.
Grace is on the NE Corner of Santa Fe Dr. & Highlands Ranch Pkwy. (Across from Murdochs)
Trinity Lutheran School & ELC (Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)
303-798-8485
303-841-4660 www.tlcas.org
8:45 am & 10:30 am
Sunday
8:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.
1609 W. Littleton Blvd. (303) 798-1389 • www.fpcl.org
Sunday 9:30am
Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-3770 7051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO 303-841-3739 www.joylutheran-parker.org
Parker
Parker, CO 10am Worship Service www.hilltopucc.org 303-841-2808
Sunday services held in the historic Ruth Memorial Chapel at the Parker Mainstreet Center
...19650 E. Mainstreet, Parker 80138
Fellowship & Worship: 9:00 am Sunday School: 10:45 am 5755 Valley Hi Drive Parker, CO 303-941-0668
www.SpiritofHopeLCMC.org
New Thought...Ancient Wisdom Sunday Service
& Children’s Church 10:00 a.m.
Visit our website for details of classes & upcoming events.
303.805.9890
www.P a r k er C C R S.org P.O. Box 2945—Parker CO 80134-2945
www.gracecolorado.com
Trinity
Sunday Worship
Community Church of Religious Science Hilltop United Church Of Christ 10926 E. Democrat Rd.
Connect – Grow – Serve
SErviCES:
Saturday 5:30pm
Pastor David Fisher
of Littleton
Worship Services Sundays at 9:00am
“Loving God - Making A Difference”
Franktown
Parker evangelical Presbyterian church
9030 Miller road Parker, Co 80138 303-841-2125 www.pepc.org
www.gracepointcc.us
LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA
Abiding Word Lutheran Church First Presbyterian Church 8391 S. Burnley Ct., Highlands Ranch
Sunday Worship 10:30 4825 North Crowfoot Valley Rd. Castle Rock • canyonscc.org 303-663-5751
Sunday Worship: 10:45AM & 6PM Bible Study: 9:30AM Children, Young People & Adults
(Next to RTD lot @470 & University)
An Evangelical Presbyterian Church
Joy
Where people are excited about God’s Word.
Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors.
9:00am Spiritual Formation Classes for all Ages 90 east orchard road littleton, co
Littleton
the IFCS director said. “We will assemble all those donations and put together the backpack and school supplies we distribute to children. Of course, if someone wants to make cash donations, we have shoppers here who will get the most for every dollar available to help us reach our goal.” All the donations will be assembled at the Inter-Faith office at 3370 S. Irving St. and distributed from July 31 to Aug. 3. At the 2011 distribution, Shelly Murphy hugged the volunteers as they brought the items to her two children. “I am a single mom with two children. I work two part-time, fast-food jobs because I can’t find a full-time one,” the Sheridan resident said. “It is hard but we manage. However, I didn’t know what I was going to do to get the kids ready to start school. Everything is so expensive. Now Inter-Faith had provided them not only school supplies but a new outfit to wear. It is wonderful and `thank you’ just doesn’t express how grateful we are for what they have provided. God bless Inter-Faith for all that they do.” For information about the program and how it works, call InterFaith at 303-789-0501.
Greewood Village Saint Peter Lutheran Church and Rainbow Trail Lutheran Camp
Day Camp 2013 August 5 – 8 9300 E. Belleview Ave. Greenwood Village Colorado 80111 303-770-9301 or www.stplc.org
*ages 3 yrs to those entering 6th grade
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