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October 2009 Newsletter NEWS: Carpe Diem Volleyball is thrilled to name
Christa Anderson as our new Club Director. Junior's: • Open Houses: Come in to meet our coaching staff, gather
information and ask questions about our winter club season, as your daughters
scrimmage in an ‘open gym’ setting! There will be a meeting during each Open House
at 6:45 and 7:45 to provide information, such as try outs dates, tuition,
payment plans available, required equipment, practice time frames, expectations,
and coaches. • Winter Club Try-Out Information is available! One try-out fee covers all dates,
there are ‘family’ rates AND the try-out fee will be applied to club tuition! The
first date is November 8th so register soon! • Fall Club teams are in
full swing! We have 2 High School teams and 1 Middle School team! • Private Lessons are an option for boys and girls, men and
women and entire teams! Contact Michelle to schedule a time. Adults: • Our fall Adult League schedule is available. Session
I has already started, so signed up soon for Session II which begins either
November 5 (co-ed 4’s) or the week of November 9 for all others. • Check out and register
early for our Adult Tournaments. October 17 is the next Coed 4’s, and October
31 is a Regular/Reverse Coed 4’s (one game on women’s net, one game on men’s
net!). Extras: • 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! 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. • Please keep Jennifer J.
in prayer. This is a lady our age whom we have known since Michelle played
against her on the beach in the late 1980’s! Jen was told 3 weeks ago she had
breast cancer, and after a whirlwind of doctors, tests, painful exams and other
assessments, she has decided to have a double mastectomy, as this certain type
has a strong tendency to return. Please keep her and her 4-year-old son covered
in prayer. Survival is not an issue, but it is a hard road filled with more
doctors, decisions and surgeries, the first of which (double mastectomy) is
November 2! • Pray for the upcoming
try-outs, as there are lots of decisions for players, parents, club directors
and coaches. • PRAISE for Bill and his
upcoming wedding to a wonderful woman, Judy! • 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 continued to be 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 entrusted their kids to us and took time out of their busy lives to
chauffer and support their children! Thanks to all the players who were SO
incredible; what a wonderful group of young people we got to ‘hang out’ with!
Thanks to the coaches who worked so tirelessly; we had an amazing staff and are
excited for next year already! 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 2+
years so memorable and exciting! • Come see our new lighting! YES! No more yellow hue and lights
hanging down! White light, fluorescents and UP IN the ceiling! • 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! • We tore up all three
courts and put more ‘padding’ down! (It is what we wanted when we opened, but
at that time we couldn’t afford it! After saving up, we were able to make this
huge purchase! God is good!) Thanks so much to the people that came in and gave
their time (and sweat) to help us! • 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. • 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, David and Michelle Vander
Meer “…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. God presented him as a
sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to
demonstrate His justice, because in His forbearance He had left the sins
committed beforehand unpunished— He did it to demonstrate His justice at the
present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith
in Jesus.” Romans 3:23-26 |
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