Dear Angelus Academy Parents,
Summer 2009 is here!!! Are you enjoying your vacation? The long, hot days of summer invite relaxation, beaches, and contemplating the sprinkler. Put your time and recreation into the wonder and beauty that is the education of our children. The unconstrained time of summer need not be trivial or purposeless. Think about what you and your children can contribute during these lazy, hazy days.
Start by doing what is necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the
impossible. --St. Francis of Assisi
No time or effort on behalf of your child’s school is too small or unimportant.
The 2009 Auction Committee is working to create a festive and lucrative auction for Angelus Academy in November. There are a few jobs that we will need to complete over the summer. Please consider donating your time to these important efforts.
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We need space to house, sort, package, and catalog all of the wonderful donations to the Angelus Academy Auction. Do you have space that you can donate to our cause?
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We would like to get a page devoted to the Auction on the Angelus Academy website. Are you talented in the area of website design? Can you help us?
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We will need help with some behind-the-scenes solicitation for items in the silent and live auctions. To that end we will attempt to contact corporations, resorts, and out-of-area businesses donations to our worthwhile cause. Rather than knocking door-to-door in the local area, we will contact some potential donors remotely. Would you be willing to write letters, fax letters, make follow-up phone calls, or address and stuff envelopes?
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Budgeting and accounting are important tasks that must be completed to ensure a successful Auction. Are you talented in these areas? Can you devote some time to organizing our receipts and planning our expenses?
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Can you devote some time to individual and class art projects? Unique
items created by our own students are always highly desired in the Auction.
Put your heart and soul into beautiful homemade art (with the help of Mrs. Colandene, of course) this summer.
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Some of the best charity fundraisers are blessed with a matching donor -- a
benefactor who provides incentive for individual donations by complementing any and all receipts with his or her own identical contribution. Do you know anyone who can play financial angel to our Auction this November?
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Do you like to think outside-the-box? Do you like to see original, creative items in the Auction? Are you inspired to work for the future of Angelus Academy and the education of our children in virtue as well as academics? Let’s put our heads together to brainstorm about the best practices of the most successful school auctions.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. --
Saint Augustine
Finally, and most importantly, no effort this large will be possible without prayer. Please pray for the intercession of St. Raphael for a successful (and fun) annual auction this fall!!!
Vouchsafe, O Lord God, to send holy Raphael the Archangel to aid us: and may he whom we believe ever to stand before Thy Majesty, present our poor prayers to be blessed by Thee.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with The in the unity of the Holy Ghost, One God, world without end. Amen. --St. Raphael
THANK YOU!!!
Please Contact Helen Donovan at john.k.donovan@verizon.net or 703-941-3034 if you can help with any of these summer jobs.
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