The following is an update received from Karen. Keep praying for she and Doug as they continue to press forward:
Just wanted to write and let you know what is happening thus far. The Well has been registered with the General Secretary. We have obtained a post office box in Philipsburg. Doug and I joined the Y so that we can work out and meet people. A lady was offering a Yoga class so we are taking that-the stretching is good for us - don't worry we're not into the eastern stuff. We are going over to Philipsburg Monday (Jan. 25th)to give Dunkin' Donuts coffee and cookies to each of the schools for a teacher appreciation. The borough manager has asked us to serve on a needs task force. Hopefully we will be able to connect with him on Monday to discuss what this will look like.
Beat the Blues is scheduled for March 7th at the local coffee shop in Philipsburg. This will be a time for people to come and be encouraged. Various people will be sharing in music. There will be a puppet show for kids and a craft. We are hoping to have various people come that do crafts and share a demonstration. Plus the teens of Hyde will be sharing a skit to a Lifehouse song. We are having a Dave Ramsey preview on Feb. 9th at the development authority building. We were able to get the room for nothing. We have begun advertising for this event. If we have interest we will start the class in March - every week for 13 weeks. We are also talking to a coffee shop owner about starting a support group for people that have experienced loss - loss of job, spouse, freedom due to illness and so forth. She had told us that she would open for us to have this group and not charge us anything.
We have shared at Dixonville, Ashland, Hyde and Weedville and are scheduled to share with Mount Union on Feb. 21st and Majestic Mountain on Feb. 28th. Fundraising has been going slow.
I know this is kind of a smattering of what is happening but hopefully it will give you a picture of where we are. One of our main prayer requests is that God would show us who else to ask to be on the launch team. Currently there are 10 of us. Wayne Otto said he felt we needed at least 12 or 15 to launch with. Chris said we should have 20. We have been praying that God would show us who else we should approach concerning this. We have begun launch team meetings and are trying to build team unity and community with our team of people.
Hope this finds you well and things going great.
Karen
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