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January 2009 Newsletter Junior's: • We are bringing in Dave Zelenock, Assistant Coach at Central Michigan, to run a clinic on January 17th from 6 - 8 p.m. This is open to ALL high school girls and boys, and Pre-registration is required! This time of the year local food pantries and other community service providers are needing donations, so we decided to make this clinic a service project! Cost: 10 canned goods (to be donated to God's Kitchen) or 1 large bag of disposable diapers (for the Pregnancy Resource Center). This clinic is limited to 40 participants, so sign up soon! • The Carpe Diem Junior's Club teams have their first competitions of the season this weekend! Please pray for safety. • Semester II spring season club try-outs: February 27 & 28. • Many players have already taken advantage of private training and we have limited private training times available for individuals or teams, adult or youth. Contact Michelle to schedule a time. Adults: • Adult Leagues - ALL leagues start next week! Monday's: Women's 4's; Tuesday's: Coed 6's; Wednesday's: Men's 4's & Women's 6's; Thursday's: Coed 4's. 6's Leagues are one 10 week session. Sign up early! • Indoor Adult Tournaments February: • NEW FOR THIS YEAR – Our summer Coed Beach Tournaments went over really well, and we are continuing them with our Indoor Sunday Doubles Tournaments . We use beach balls and beach size courts! The second Sunday of each month is Coed B and the fourth Sunday is Coed A. These start at NOON, last about as long as the coed beach tournaments, and are a fun day for all! These have been a great successes! Beach: • Our 2009 TENTATIVE Beach schedule is up! Looks to be another exciting year! • Come play indoor doubles on the hard court! Check out the info in the Adult section. Extras: • Sale Item of the Month:
On sale for: $40! • Carpe Diem Volleyball is a non-profit organization! As you look at our needs you will be able to write them off as a tax deduction! • If you have any prayer requests please feel free to share them with us! Be sure to let us know if you'd like your request included in the newsletter or kept private. Thanks to those who have trusted us and presented their requests – what a privilege to carry those to God in prayer! • Please continue to pray for complete healing during the next few months for Janie in her recovery! Praises!! Her post-op appointment brought good news! • Please continue to be in prayer for a wonderful man who claims to be an atheist. Pray that the scales are removed from his eyes and heart, and that the Lord surrounds him with Godly people who will love him as Christ Himself loves us! • We have 7 teams and amazing coaches with every team! Praise God for answered prayer! • Thank you SO much for the support and prayer for Michelle and the family after her middle-of-the-night appendectomy! The calls, cards, notes, BBQ chicken and cookies meant SO much to us all, and the extra help from our coaches was the only thing that kept Carpe Diem running! We have an amazing family in this volleyball community! Facility Update: CARPE DIEM SPORTS AND WELLNESS CENTER!! • Can you believe this is our second anniversary? We have been in our building for 2 years now! Praise God for His guidance and provision, and thanks to all of you who have made these past 2 years so memorable and exciting! • If your business is interested in advertising at our place, contact David. We have a great amount of wall space for banners!! Cost for advertising is: 250.00/year and you supply the banner. 350.00/ year and we will get a banner made for you. • Our annual fundraiser started. Buy an advertisement for our program guide. Prices range from $40 for a business card size to $180 for a full page ad. Act soon! January 25 is the last day to turn ads in! Contact David for more information! • We'd love to have a ‘library' in the facility! If you have any new or gently used, family friendly books, please bring them in! This prompts another need – somewhere to store them! If you have a bookshelf to donate, we'd really appreciate it! People have already taken advantage of our ‘cozy' reading supply! • THANK YOU to all those who have donated their time, money and ‘stuff'!! We sure appreciate you and would not be near where we are without your support! PLEASE continue to pray for us! We need every kind of support you can think of, especially prayer and financial! • Help us fill up the facility: renting out courts for parties, running basketball teams, bringing in inspirational speakers, exercise/Pilates classes, AAU tournaments, and eventual tutoring programs/after school programs and Bible studies, along with the ‘normal' stuff we do! If you have ANY other ideas for us, please let us know! We need to keep this place filled for financial reasons, but we also need to use it to minister to all people! If you are interested in renting out the facility, please contact David . • This is huge and we know God will provide for all our needs! Knowing that God uses people to fill the needs of others, we are letting go of any earthly pride and asking for help! Here are some of our needs! Blessings, “though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls."
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