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Are you serious about getting your finances in order?
This series, curriculum by Willow Creek Association, can help you make a
measurable difference. If you, or you and your spouse are committed to getting
your finances in order, we encourage you to participate in this series which
begins Tuesday, April 5, 2005 and ending May 10, 2005 at the Birch Community
Services warehouse waiting room at 7:30 p.m. These meetings will be
facilitated by Egbert Kunrath (President of our Board of Directors), an
insurance/investment counselor, who will be available to answer any questions
you may have.
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Egbert Kunrath
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What’s your commitment?
- The series will be more profitable if approached seriously as a team. We encourage couples to attend together.
- Come every week for six weeks, 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (No childcare available.)
- The evening involves interactive discussion with others struggling with similar issues as yourselves. Please be prompt!
- The workbook is $12.00, the only cost.
- Weekly homework is up to two hours.
What’s your gain?
Freedom! Financial stresses affect our emotional stability, our relationships with spouses and our relationship with God.
Please have your check for the workbook, made out to Birch Community Services, Inc., and enrollment form (available at front desk) returned to BCSI no later than March 19.
- The new Holiday schedules are out! Please make sure you pick up a copy at the warehouse
of the “closures” of BCSI for 2005 and mark your calendars, or hang it on your frig.
(It’s also on this website!)
- The dance classes have been a huge success. So much so that each class has been way
overbooked. If you signed up, about a week before it occurs you will receive an email
confirmation telling you whether or not you FOR SURE have made it into the class.
- We will be hosting our first BASIC SEWING CLASS on March 19, 2005, from 10:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Tina Birch of Domestic Graces (www.domesticgraces.com)
will be instructing us on the basic skills needed to run a sewing machine, cut out a pattern
and sew it, install a zipper, etc. Registration forms are available at the BCSI warehouse front desk.
Sign up now; the class is limited to 15 participants!
- Please don’t forget to turn in your pink January survey forms at the front desk.
We greatly appreciate this information, and the constructive comments over the years
have helped us make monumental changes in the way the program works.
- Please note: As of January 2005, if you have been participating six months or more,
someone in your family should be volunteering at least one two-hour shift per month for BCSI.
Don’t be nervous – everything is weird the first time you do it! Go to the website and read up
on VOLUNTEERING. If you have any questions, please feel free to email
Suzanne Birch
after you’ve read through the information. Try it… you’ll like it!
- Speaking of volunteering… We have a new information system for volunteers. From now on
(or until we change it again), all the volunteer info will be at the VOLUNTEER desk in the
front office. You’ll go there to get your nametag (now on nice lanyards!), find volunteering
guidelines and release forms, and register your hours.
- Karen needs more volunteers in the children’s area. If you’re interested in helping
out there, please call Karen at 503-826-9580
to schedule a time to assist the other families in this way. She’ll be happy to hear from you.
- Danielle Newman has been dialing as fast as she can in her capacity as Volunteer Coordinator.
Her job is to contact new incoming volunteers to make sure they are familiar with the processes,
and to follow up on those who have gotten behind or missed their regular volunteering. We’d like
to have another person assist Danielle in this process; it’s too big a job for one person. If
you’d like to volunteer from home, are charming and patient, and don’t mind being on the phone,
please contact Suzanne Birch.
- Don’t forget February is a short month. Plan now to make sure your service fee is paid by
the end of the month which is Monday, February 28.
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