Crystal - St. Raphael
Team Blog Posts
Drive Thru Prayer 10/1/22
This is from Team Member Phil: One visitor who stopped by our Drive-Thru Prayer event on Oct. 1st, was having various life challenges. It seems he lost his cell phone recently and was on a quest to find it. As…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer 9/2/22
The road and sidewalk in front the church are both being repaired. We were undeterred and set up anyway despite expecting a lower turnout. Man with a child in Pre-K at our parish school was waiting for a bus and asked…
Read More →St Raphael Festival (reboot)
Our new young pastor was excited to reboot the festival after a few years off. He was very excited to meet to Pope Francis! We had some challenges with the wind (Fri) and rain/wind on Sat! So that's why the booth…
Read More →Crystal Frolics 2022
This report is from team member Phil: Just finished the Crystal Frolics. I estimate that about 40 rosaries were given away and also about 50 miraculous medals with chains. I am a little worn out so I do not…
Read More →Free Food, Friendship, and Faith (July 14 & 21)
St Raphael Reaching for Faith (RFF) ministry, of which the parish SPSE is subset, hosts every few years Free Food, Friendship, and Faith nights where we give free hot dogs meals to people driving or walking by. This…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer 6/4/2022
In the shadow of recent mass shootings, near-record inflation, and the war in Ukraine, the Holy Spirit’s loving and positive presence was upon our community in a big way, and provided comfort and awareness that God is still with us. …
Read More →Drive thru Prayer #2 May 7, 2022
Saturday May 7th our SPSE team held our usual first Saturday sidewalk & drive-thru prayer event. At the drive-thru, we experienced good traffic, and one lady named Joanna was in the passenger seat, and her PCA Liz was the driver.…
Read More →Evangelizing with Door Hangers
Several members of our team helped with this project in various ways: stuffing bags, helping to distribute bags to parishioners after Masses to hang on doors on their block, and four members along with our pastor (split into two teams)…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer #1 2022
We had a brisk, partly sunny morning for our first Drive Thru Prayer of the year. Phil, Serena, and Sharon were joined by FIVE new people this morning. Brad and Joe, who sometimes stand with signs in various places near…
Read More →Evangelizing Faith Formation
This report comes from team member Peggy: On December 5, I gave the students who are going to be receiving their First Communion the rosaries and Rosary Guides, along with the Chaplet of Divine Mercy prayer cards. The teacher thanked…
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