Crystal - St. Raphael
Team Blog Posts
Free Food, Friendship, and Faith-Week 1 (6-13-24)
What a nice turnout last evening for the Free Food, Friendship & Faith event, particularly with the number of kids and teens stopping by and even helping out with clean up. Particularly moving were two young men who Mary waved…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer - June 1, 2024
We had five team members on hand today to try out our new table drape: Justin, Lisa, Phil, Sharon, and Suzanne. Sharon had recently attended a Knights of Columbus convention with her husband and was given a few packages of…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer 5-4-24
This report comes via Suzanne: The May Drive Thru Prayer event started off slowly but after 25 minutes it began to get busy with even a couple cars lined up at one point! Prayer Warrior, Tom, was back for a…
Read More →Windy Drive Thru Prayer 4/6/24
It was a blustery day for our first Drive Thru prayer of the season. We had four evangelist/prayer warriors today: Lisa, Phil, Sharon and new comer Tom. Tom said felt God wanted him to join us today. Tom evangelized by…
Read More →Christkindlmarkt
The St Raphael was invited to set up at Christkindlmarkt, a Christmas bazaar at a parish about 20 miles away. While we didn't stay for the entire 8 hours, Phil and Sharon had several fruitful encounters. We gave…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer 10/7/23
We had two team members brave the cold to evangelize, Pete and Suzanne. Thank you to Suzanne for supplying this report. Pete engaged in a lengthy conversation with a young man at the bus stop who was on his way…
Read More →Stewardship Fair 9/24/23
Today was St Raphael's stewardship fair. While the intent was to introduce to parishioners various ministries with which they could volunteer, we still handed out a few materials. Team member Cathy purchased Bishop Barron's new book on the Eucharist and…
Read More →Stewardship Fair 9/24/23
Today was St Raphael's stewardship fair. While the intent was to introduce to parishioners various ministries with which they could volunteer, we still handed out a few materials. Team member Cathy purchased Bishop Barron's new book on the Eucharist and…
Read More →Drive Thru 9-2-23
Today we had five evangelists-Jack, Michael, Pete, Phil and Sharon. We also had a guest evangelist, our pastor Fr. Hagen. Shortly after we set up, Father Hagen and Jack engaged in long conversation with D. D was Catholic, but was…
Read More →Festival 2023
Our pastor wants one of the primary foci (plural of Focus) to be community outreach. He is very glad our RFF (Reaching for Faith)/SPSE ministry can help with that. We had approx 8 SPSE medals offered as well most SPSE…
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