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January/February 2010 Newsletter Junior's: • Spring Club Season Try-Outs will be Tuesday, March 9! The try-out fee is applied to your club
tuition, and we offer ‘family rates’ for those with multiple volleyball players!
If you are playing with us this winter season you do need to attend this
try-out. However, your initial try-out fee also takes care of the spring season
try-out! • We have seven girls’ teams
representing us this winter! Rosters are posted: 18 National, 16 Regional, 15 Regional, 15 Local, 14 Regional, 14 Local & 13 Local. • Congratulations to some
of our 18’s National Team players! Juniors Libby W and Abby D, and Sophomores Megan
VM and Sydney VM have been invited to a D1 College summer camp! Megan VM has
been invited to multiple camps and will be going to a D1 campus this month for
an ‘unofficial visit’ requested by the coach! Congratulations to these great
players and amazing young women! • Boy’s
Volleyball: We have two teams this
winter season. Our 18’s team has been to Chicago twice and taken a 2nd
and a 3rd; a great accomplishment for a group of boy’s who don’t
have the opportunity to play organized volleyball in school! • Private
Lessons are options for boys
and girls, men and women and entire teams! Contact Michelle to
schedule a time. Adults: • Our Winter Session I Adult
Leagues are underway. Sign up
soon for Winter Session II, which begins the first week in March! • Check out and register
early for our Adult Tournaments. February 13 is a 4’s Couples Draw, February 27 - Regular/Reverse
Coed 4’s, March 13 - Coed 4’s, March 27 - Regular/Reverse Coed 4’s, April 17 - Regular/Reverse
Coed 4’s. Extras: • Advertise YOUR BUSINESS
at Carpe Diem! Cost for advertising via a banner is $200.00. Contact David regarding this opportunity! • Follow us on Facebook – Search Carpe Diem
Volleyball • Follow us on Twitter - @Carpediemvb • 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! • Although Carpe Diem
Volleyball has been around for some time, January was the 3rd
Anniversary being in our own place!!! Prayer Requests: • 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! • Praise God! Rachael is
cancer free!! Please continue to pray for complete healing as she finishes up
her treatment. Thank you SO much for your prayers! They mean SO much to this
family! • Continue to pray for
Shirley, one of our moms, who suffers with an inner ear disorder. Pray for
healing without radical surgery, and pray that her other ear is not affected as
the doctors seem to believe. • Praise God for Jennifer’s
successful surgery!! Her double mastectomy went fantastic and she is preparing
for the reconstruction process! She still has to ease back into her active
life, so keep her covered with prayer! • Pray for the upcoming
try-outs, as there are lots of decisions for players, parents, club directors
and coaches. • PRAISE for answered
prayer! Dillon, a professor of evolution, has been going to church and a Bible
Study! Please continue to be in prayer for him, as he still claims to be an
atheist. His friends see God’s hand in so many parts of his life! Pray that the
scales are continually removed from his eyes and heart, and that the Lord
surrounds him with more and more Godly people who will love him as Christ
Himself loves us! • Praises for another
season of club volleyball – past and future. Although trying at times (and
insanely busy!), we wouldn’t want to be doing anything else! Thanks to all the
parents who entrust their kids to us and take time out of their busy lives to
chauffer and support their children! Thanks to all the players who are SO
incredible; what a wonderful group of young people we get to ‘hang out’ with! Thanks
to the coaches who work so tirelessly; we have an amazing staff and are excited
for every new season! And thanks to God for allowing us to use our
passion and love for volleyball and youth! We are truly blessed! Facility Update: • Praise God for His
guidance and provision, and thanks to all of you who have made these past 3
years so memorable and exciting! • The new
lighting and thicker padding under the courts is awesome!!! • We cannot thank two
families enough for all the help and support they have given us these last
couple months! Tim and Mick have been amazing helping us with marketing and
publicity-type things! They and their families have sacrificed for us and we
are incredibly grateful that God placed them in our lives with such giving and
generous hearts! • 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 . • 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, as we need every kind of support you can think of, especially
prayer and financial! This is a huge step of faith and we know God will provide
for all of 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 in filling some of
our needs: projector, financial assistance, any connections with local
businesses and especially prayer! God’s Blessings to you, and
may you have much to be thankful for, David and Michelle Vander
Meer “Now
we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so
that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law;
rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. But
now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known… This
righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by
Christ Jesus. Where,
then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the
law? No, but on that of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith
apart from observing the law.” Romans 3:19-24, 27, 28 |
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