Crystal - St. Raphael
Team Blog Posts
Road to Bethlehem Boutique 12/4/21
We setup SPSE at our "Road to Bethlehem" Christmas event, where our school's students sang Christmas Carols, and several other tables were setup with Christmas gift ideas. It was our biggest give-away day, as dozens of Miraculous Medals, Rosary's, and…
Read More →Walk up Prayer 11/9/2021
After cancelling Drive Thru Prayer on our normal first Saturday (due to a parish event happening at the same time), Sharon decided having unusually high temperature forecast of 64 degrees forecast for today called for evangelization. Due to deciding this…
Read More →10/30/21 St Raphael School Rake-A-Thon
The day started a bit nippy as Sharon and Phil greeted families gathering for the annual St Raphael School Rake-A-Thon, a combination service project and fundraiser. Due to time constraints, not all families could stop by our two tables of…
Read More →October 2: Drive Thru Prayer and Knights of Columbus Booya
We had two events lined up for Saturday, October 2 and both of them were lasted less than the anticipated two hours. Rick joined us today for the first time. Rick is a long time member of the St Raphael…
Read More →Drive Thru prayer 8/14 & 9/4
Our team had a new member the past two months. In August, Lisa took a spin up and down the sidewalk in front of the church (see photo below). In September, she helped Sharon pray with passers-by on the sidewalk…
Read More →Frolicking in Crystal with St Raphael School 7/25/2021
The St Raphael SPSE team shared a booth with St Raphael School at the Crystal Frolics Family Festival on Sunday, July 25. As part of the Family Festival, each booth needed an activity for children. Team member Phil had a…
Read More →July 3 Drive Thru Prayer
With a soft breeze to sustain us and young lady dipping her toes to see what street evangelism is, we set up once again in front of St Raphael church on the first Saturday in July. "C" asked the prayer…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer 6/5/21
We had a hot but successful outing. The temperature was 89 at noon when we finished, but we had shade to sit in and a little breeze so God was good to us. Due to the hot weather, we had…
Read More →Women's Retreat
May 15, our parish women's group, the Rosary Society, sponsored a retreat for women with the theme "The Holy Family." Two weeks before the retreat the president of the Rosary Society approached Sharon, Team Lead and Rosary Society treasurer, if…
Read More →Drive Thru Prayer May 1
Today's report is from Station Leader Phil Rief as the team leader was unavailable for the event: Saturday May 1st, we set up for a monthly event that's been running since last summer, that we call "Drive Thru Prayer". We…
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