FLOOD PRAYER GROUP
Want to learn more about prayer or have a an interest in prayer that you want to explore? If so, come to this month’s prayer group which will be focused around praying for our all-church SOMA Conference. Meeting Time: Sunday, February 28th from 6:00 – 7:30pm Location: Kearny Library Contact: LinseyWildey@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
If you have a skill (such as auto repair, carpentry, financial services, etc) that you can offer to Flood members temporarily in need, we want to know! Help us be a generous church body who uses our skills to serve our brothers & sisters in need. Contact Christopher.R.Lawson@gmail.com to find out how you can offer your skills. (There is no long term commitment)
We are hoping to add 10 new volunteers to our security team! The commitment is one shift per month, during any of the 4 gatherings. You get to help keep the people and cars of Flood church safe while wearing a fashionable yellow vest!! Can it get any better?! Please contact EricLehman@DIVEintoFLOOD.com if you interested or if you have any questions.
We are looking to expand our Sunday Set Up Team by 5 more people!
Serve once a month from 7:00 – 8:30am on Sunday mornings.
Try it out once and see if you want to commit for a semester by coming to a Set Up Team Orientation this Sunday, February 28th from 6:45am – 8:30am.
If interested e-mail LinseyWildey@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Saturday, February 13th, 8am-4pm, 4s Ranch Boys & Girls Club (Rancho Bernardo)
Join us for our annual flag football tournament! Start putting your teams together and get ready to dominate the field! This is a great opportunity to invite friends, coworkers, & family members to experience our rad community. Men’s Teams and Powder Puff Teams can pick up a team sign up sheet at the Flood Welcome Tent starting Sunday, Jan 3rd, or sign up early by emailing Patrick Dunn.
Cost: $175/team (max 16 players per team)
Contact: Patrick at PDunn3218@yahoo.com
Flood Family,
If you’ve got an electric griddle, Flood Love needs 3 of them to make pancakes for the homeless on Christmas morning! It will NOT leave the Flood Offices, as we will do all our prep here before heading downtown.
Contact Erin at ECrowleyPT@gmail.com if you can help!
Drop off your griddle to the Flood Office between 9am & 5pm today 12/22 or Wednesday, 12/23.
Donate your favorite treats to share at the Christmas Shoppe this Sunday! Drop off baked goods, purchased goods or holiday candy on your way to the Christmas Concerts at 9am, 11am, 6pm, & 8pm.
Email KairaMauldin@DIVEintoFLOOD.com to sign up!
Join us at our 4th annual Christmas Shoppe THIS Sunday, Dec 13th. The Christmas Shoppe is an alternative shopping market featuring socially conscientious gifts that directly support service organizations here in San Diego and around the world. Entry to the Shoppe is free, and will feature cookie decorating, live music and more.
Check out descriptions and photos of the products below!
Vendor: Invisible Children
Merch: IC Scarf $20; IC Coffee $20/LB; IC Throwback Beanie $20; IC T-shirt $20; IC Rough Cut DVD $10; GO Documentary $10; IC Bracelet DVD’s $20; MEND Purse bags $40
Cause: We use the power of media to inspire young people to help end the longest running war in Africa. We strive to improve the quality of life for individuals living in conflict and post-conflict regions through education and innovative economic opportunities.
Info: www.InvisibleChildren.com
Vendor: Plant With Purpose/Floresta
Merch: 1lb bag of Tanzanian grown Coffee $12; Assorted Pine Needle Baskets $10-20; Scarves: $20; T-shirts $15; Plant a Life Saving Tree $1; Purchase a Family a Stove $30, Purchase a Family a Garden $50
Cause: Plant With Purpose/Floresta is a Christian non-profit organization that works in developing countries with the rural poor, replacing a vicious cycle of poverty and deforestation with a virtuous cycle of opportunity and environmental restoration.
Info: www.PlantWithPurpose.org
Vendor: Krochet Kids Intl.
Merch: Hand-crocheted hats $25-$30; T-shirts $20
Cause: We work with a group of women in Northern Uganda who we taught to crochet: they now crochet awesome hats that we sell in the US, sending the money back to Uganda to pay them great wages and invest in financial education programs for the crocheters.
Info: www.KrochetKids.org
Vendor: Amor
Merch: Hoodies $25-35; Tee-shirts $5-17; Hats $15; Clean Water for Life Filter for a Family $100; Food Bank $25 – $50 ($25 feeds family of 4 for a week); Family Bible Set $25
Cause: We are committed to be like Christ as we: provide educational and mission experiences that radically change people, eradicate spiritual and physical poverty and impact the future of the church.
Info: www.Amor.org
Vendor: The Dagger Project
Merch: Spray painted pocket-sized New Testament (Daggers) $10
Cause: A non-profit organization inspiring and equipping young people to read the Bible by using contemporary art in methods of outreach.
Info: TheDaggerProject.com
Vendor: Soul Food Impact Team
Merch: Set of 4 coasters $5
Cause: This team makes it possible for you to help the struggling families of Kearny High School students, by providing groceries for them once a month.
Info: Food@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Vendor: Flood Love Impact Team
Merch: A stuffed stocking for the homeless $10
Cause: Flood Love is a homeless ministry committed to meeting the spiritual and physical needs of the homeless in downtown San Diego, as well as growing a community within the group and with the homeless.
Info: FloodLove@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Vendor: Cards From Africa
Merch: 5 Card Multipacks $20 each. Themes include: African, Birthday, Holiday, Christmas, and Thank You
Cause: Employs people orphaned by the 1994 Rwandan genocide and diseases like AIDS and malaria to make beautiful handmade greeting cards, empowering them to provide food, shelter, health care and education for their siblings.
Info: www.CardsFromAfrica.com
Vendor: The Chisomo Idea (“grace” in Chichewa)
Merch: T-Shirts $15; Give a Dollar Christmas Campaign Cause: An African-born global grassroots movement connecting the privileged young (and young at heart) to issues of poverty in Africa and providing them with a framework for action. We work with and through a network of the local communities to live out the love of Christ.
Info: www.ChisomoIdea.com
Vendor: The Infinite Good
Merch: 16×20 & 22×28 Silkscreen Poster (Artist Proof) $20 each; 22×28 Large Letterpress Poster $50; 18×24 & 11×14 Large Letterpress $20 each; 8×10 Letterpress Print $10
Cause: The Infinite Good is a non-profit organization (pending) that aims to promote positive people and projects in our world.
Info: Good@TheInfiniteGood.com
Vendor: College Area Pregnancy Services
Merch: Precious Feet pins (they are the exact size and shape of a 10-week unborn baby’s feet) $5.00
Cause: Exists to meet the needs of women in our community facing unintended pregnancies through education, prevention, emotional support, spiritual encouragement, physical assistance and healing.
Info: www.CapsOnline.org
Vendor: Tijuana Orphanage Impact Team
Merch: Raffle tickets for a basket of goods $1 (100% proceeds to Orphanage); Hand made Christmas ornaments $5; Clear Glass ornaments with a child’s picture inside $5; Decorated Picture frames with a child’s picture $10
Cause: To help change the lives of children and staff at Casa Hogar El Faro as well as the lives of volunteers who come on trips.
Info: Orphanage@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Vendor: Flood & Children of the Nations
Merch: Found Art: Discovering Beauty in Foreign Places by Leeana Tankersley $10; Pat Little Band CD’S $10; Pat Little Band Sweatshirts $35; Flood Fripple Stickers $1; Flood Malawi Coffee $12; FloodKids CD $12; COTN Ornaments and Artifacts $5-150
Cause: A portion of the proceeds will go to COTN to fund the children’s home in Northern Uganda. This is a multi-phase project; the children will have a clean, safe home because of your gifts!
Info: www.DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Vendor: Nu Intentions
Merch: Fair-trade jewelry made by women in Uganda including; Thread Earrings $25 Necklaces $25
Cause: Nu Intentions empowers displaced women living in a refugee camp in Eastern Uganda through employment opportunities of jewelry creation, savings and budgeting training, entrepreneurship, leadership, teamwork, and discussions of women’s social issues.
Info: www.NuIntentions.com
Vendor: San Diego Rescue Mission
Merch: Give Hope Tote $5; Provide a Night of Shelter for a homeless woman $15 (receive card to send to friend)
Cause: Serves hungry and homeless men, women, and children. Purchase of a Hope Tote will provide hot dinners to 3 hungry San Diegans. $15 will give a desperate woman shelter, clothing, hot meals, and love!
Info: www.SDRescue.org
We need YOU to help make the Christmas Shoppe run smoothly on Sunday, December 13th.
Below are the areas where we need you to serve.
**TO SIGN UP: email MawiPatten@DIVEintoFLOOD.com with the areas you are available to serve in. Feel free to sign up for more than one area!
SETUP
3 more volunteers needed
Arrive at 8:30AM and check-in with Adam Klekowski in the KHS cafeteria (behind the lunch tables)
GIFT-WRAP CREW
4 more volunteers needed
Help wrap gifts that are dropped off at the Giving Tree (you do not need to be a professional =), and help people write personal Christmas cards to the families.
Check-in with Alicia Muccillo in the KHS cafeteria at:
+ 7:00pm (3 volunteers needed)
+ 9:00pm (1 volunteer needed)
TEARDOWN
5 more volunteers needed
Check-in with Mawi Patten in the KHS cafeteria at 10:00PM (as the Shoppe is closing)
We need 30 volunteers to help fill the KHS cafeteria with holiday cheer for our Christmas Shoppe on December 13th, and to help with the Giving Tree for families from KHS. Sign up at the Welcome Tent, or contact MawiPatten@DIVEintoFLOOD.com
Areas to serve:
- Decorate the Christmas Shoppe
- Bake treats for our cookie-decorating station
- Wrap gifts at the Giving Tree
- Cleanup after all the festivities
- Help deliver gifts to KHS families the following week
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