Next Meeting

The next meeting will be in January! We will meet at RedBone upstairs. Please try to make it if you can. We will just meet and discuss new ideas for the year of 2008. We have a lot of ideas and upcoming events that you wont want to miss!
Tues Jan 22nd at 7pm!

Our Annual Christmas with the Chapter!

Yummy! Look at all the food! We had a great show from the chapter! They seemed very excited about the upcoming year!

The girls in the chapter. Look at all the toys for the tots! Imagine those little kids that will be receiving them. We all agreed we would do this instead of the ornament exchange!
The Alum. Thanks to all the girls that attended! For those of you who were unable to make it We hope to see you next year!

A HUGE THANKS to Pat for opening your beautiful home! Another Huge Thanks to Amy B. for another successful year of being a top notch president and coordinating this party. It was a Super Fun event and I look forward to next year!

Its been a great term...

I just wanted to thank everyone who helped me during my 2 year term as President for the Alum Association. I am happy to announce that the torch is being passed onto Amy Pennington effective immediately. Please welcome her into her new position and show all the support you can for the Alum Association.

If there is anything I can ask of each of you for Amy Pennington's term, it would be to make a committment to become more involved in the Association. I know we are all busy with life, but I personally feel great after having left a meeting and gotten to reconnect with people I maybe don't see on a daily basis. Just consider it atleast....

Thanks soo much to everyone again and I look forward to seeing you all in 2008. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.

Loyally,
Amy Barton

Alum/Chapter Christmas Party

You are cordially invited to attend

ALUM/CHAPTER ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY

December 2, 2007 at 7pm

Home of Pat Siegal

911 Madison Avenue

Florence, South Carolina

Regrets only: pdadpi@gmail.com

**Please bring an appetizer

**Please bring an unwrapped gift for a child to benefit the Toys-for-Tots

Alum Updates

• DeAnn (Weatherly) Tiller is expecting a BOY!! Congratulations to DeAnn and Brent. We will all be praying for a happy, healthy baby boy!
• Angie (McKnight) Branton find out the sex of her baby the day before Thanksgiving. Angie, please make sure you update your blog so we can all check it out on Thanksgiving day after we have stuffed our faces FULL of turkey!
• Christmas w/ the Chapter: proposed date is Sunday, December 9th at the home of DeAnn Tiller. The chapter is to get back to me if this is a workable date for them. The plan is for the chapter members to bring a $10-$15 unwrapped gift to be donated to the Toys-for-Tots and the Alum will be sponsoring a family. This will be a "bring a dish" get-together if it all pans out. Details to come so please check back.
• The Zeta Phi chapter is having a pancake supper on November 29th at FMU. I'm trying to find out if we can pre-order. There again, the chapter is to get back with me so please check back for updates!!
• If anyone is interested in taking over an office, please contact me, Amy Barton, at pdadpi@gmail.com.

Thanks!!

Operation Christmas Child

Operation Christmas Child was started in 1993 as a way to spread the "good news of God's love" to children in need all over the world. In a tightly packed shoe box filled with school supplies, candy and toys , a child learns that someone in the world cares and it also about the power of God's love.

This year, Amy Pennington is hosting a get-together at her home on Thursday, November 15th at 7:30pm to prepare shoe boxes to be shipped to children all over the world. She will be serving desserts and coffee so please come with a sweet tooth.

To prepare yourself for this event, you will need the following:

• Choose the age/sex of your child: Boy (1) 2-4 years (2) 5-9 years (3) 10-14 years OR Girl (1) 2-4 years (2) 5-9 years (3) 10-14 years .
• Once you have chosen your sex/age, purchase items to fill your shoe box FULL! Suggestions: school supplies (crayons, pencils, markers, stamps, calculator, coloring books), small toys (cars, balls, dolls, stuffed animals, jump ropes, yo-yo), hygiene items (AMY IS PROVIDING TOOTHBRUSHES & TOOTHPASTE, comb, washcloth, soap), other items (hard candy, gum, mints socks, t-shirt, hat, toy jewelry, watch, flashlight - w/ extra batteries, sunglasses).
• DO NOT PURCHASE: any war-related toy, chocalate, liquids or lotions, anything breakable - like glass and aerosol cans.
• Bring your shoebox and items to Amy's where you will assemble everything, put in a note (already prepared by Amy) and wrap your gift (wrapping furnished by Amy too).
• Bring $7 to cover the cost of shipping your shoebox. Checks should be made payable to: Samaritan's Purse and in the memo line write "Operation Christmas Child."

Click HERE for a map to Amy's house. She lives off of West Palmetto Street (toward Timmonsville) in Forest Lake Pointe. If you need further directions, please call Amy at 773-9392.

Cancellation of 11/6 Meeting

Please note that the meeting scheduled for November 6th at Redbone Alley has been cancelled. I will be out of town on a business trip. It has been rescheduled to November 13th at 6:30pm. We will meet upstairs, as usual, at Redbone Alley.

I hope to see you all on November 13th.

Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.