2021 Spring Break Day-Camp at The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Texas City April 2021 Newsletter The Salvation Army of Galveston County Center of Hope: 601 51st Street, Galveston, TX 77551 Serving Galveston Moody Family Center for Worship and Service: 4801 Emmett F Lowry Expressway, Texas City, TX 77591 County since 1891 (409) 763-1691 • www.SalvationArmyGalvestonCounty.org
Doug be the match for boys & girls Smith An anonymous and caring supporter Boys & Girls has committed a gi of $10,000 and is Club of Texas challenging the community to match it! City Your gi of $100 becomes $200 if given Director by May 15.
ere are many great things Costs go up in the summer due to extra happening at e Salvation Army transportation for eld trips, admission Boys & Girls Club in Texas City. fees to attractions, extra materials, Covid-19 made a rocky start for our additional sta and everything else that club. We were nally able to start goes into making a summer fun and accepting students in November. safe for up to 50 kids at a time! Now we are preparing for Summer Your early gi will shape hiring and Day Camp. e Club will be in programming decisions. In everything session from 8:30 am until 5:30 it does, e Salvation Army is completely pm everyday starting June 7. We dependent on the community to provide $10,000 have activities planned like eld for services o ered. trips to 22 Lemons Farm, Moody Double your gi and change lives Gardens, the Natatorium, Space this summer! Send your gi marked Summer Day Camp Challenge Grant to Center Houston and others plus $10,000 participation in Lemonade Day PO Box 990, Galveston, TX 77553, give activities that help expose the online at www.SalvationArmyTexas. children to entrepreneurship. We org/TexasCityBGC or scan the QR code are looking for interns, volunteers below! and donor support to make it a great summer for up to 50 children. We have a Matching Grant Challenge going on right now that will double the value of your gift up to $10,000! See the details in this newsletter. Give today or by May 15! success story 2021 spring break day-camp
August is originally from New Some local children mostly from the Texas City/LaMarque area spent Spring Orleans. He was married for several Break together at e Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club in Texas City. eir years but the marriage fell apart after days were lled with directed activities, educational assistance and games. “We Hurricane Katrina. August began to are happy to be able to o er this service to our community,” says Major Na- experience bouts of homelessness. thanael Doria, Commanding O cer of e Salvation Army. “Children have With family all over the country, he had a di cult year and it is good for them to have a place to play and learn at the began to bounce around, staying same time. It is good for students to stay busy and focused during long breaks so with di erent relatives. His job as a that they don’t fall behind.” Greyhound bus driver provided the Big thanks to Treva Wygle at Plan-it Ink Photography for taking our Spring means to keep moving. When he got Break photos. Treva is the president of e Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary to Houston, unpaid child support and a tireless supporter. caught up with him and he lost his job. August ended up at e Salvation Ne Army in Galveston while recovering from a head injury. He had not had Friends his own place since before Hurricane Katrina, and he had always struggled with alcohol abuse. Nevertheless, he made a decision to see the case management specialist at e Salvation Army and learned about the Rapid Rehousing program. He worked with her to develop a plan centered on a ordable housing. He also secured a job at Walmart and began saving some money. He moved into his own place on March 26. August will continue to see the case management specialist and to pursue counseling through the Family Service Center. August says you cannot let your aws, mishaps, poor decisions, and di cult life lessons keep you from smiling and moving towards what God has in stored for you. galveston county advisory board
e purpose of the Advisory Board is to provide advice, support, and in uence with external constituencies to further the goals of e Salvation Army. Advisory Board members are not a governing body but they are community leaders who play a key role in determining the direction of the local Salvation Army based on the unique needs of the area and identifying resources to carry out the mission.
Mem ers
Terri Cole Wayne Madsen Linda Cordova Bill Reid Chair Vice-Chair Secretary Treasurer Odyssey Academy Moody Bank Valero Energy Retired
Rebecca Castro Randy Dietel Chris C. Doyle Edie Harrington Victor Pierson Traci Puckett UTMB Piling, Texas First The House Moody American Galveston Inc. Bank Company Bank National Insurance
Fred Raschke Gina Spagnola Cynthia Wander Treva Wygle Leonard Woolsey John Zendt Mills Shirley Galveston Regional Galveston Condo Plan-it Ink Galveston County Moody Law Firm Chamber of Commerce Living Group Photography Daily News Gardens
Lif Mem ers Alice Rhame Bill Rider Zoula Zein-Eldin Life Member Life Member Life Member Retired - Education Rider & Wilson Retired - Medical
Texas City Corps Advisory Randy Dietel Stephanie Doyle Bob Senter Crystal Williams Chair Community Texas First UTMB Counci Piling, Inc. Member Insurance Galveston
e Advisory Council is a smaller group of community leaders that perform functions for a particular Salvation Army corps community center or program in a metropolitan area, that are similar to those performed by the advisory board for the community at large. It plans, advises, raises funds, and provides other practical assistance to the o cers and employees responsible for the operations of the corps. William Booth Society 2021 easter
e William Booth Society... A Circle of Leaders
C C is a program of e Salvation Army is celebrating 130 years of service to Galveston this year! In e Salvation Army that ministers honor of this milestone and the people who made it possible, our Advisory Board to people through visitation and has implemented a donor giving organization called e William Booth Society. seasonal gifts, such as Christmas, William Booth, the founder of e Salvation Army, opened the rst center in the Easter or other special times. is slums of London in 1865. It is now all over the world and millions of lives have year at Easter, Community Care been changed, but only because of people who support the work in their local provided gifts for residents of nursing community. homes as well as recipients of Meals Membership in the William Booth Society is based on annual giving of a minimum on Wheels in Galveston County. All of $5,000 for a non-capital campaign gift. Based on our records of the calendar together 1,309 care packages with year 2020, 31 members quali ed to be part of this inaugural group! ey will be treats were given as an expression honored at a reception on May 4, hosted by Gina Spagnola, President/CEO of of the love of God to these precious the Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce. people. e Community Care ministry is a THE GEORGE SCOTT RAILTON CIRCLE volunteer service made up of poeple Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven Lassies “invaded” New York in of all ages who reach out to comfort 1880 to launch the rst work of e Salvation Army in the United States. the needy, patients in hospitals and seniors who are alone. Volunteer THE EVANGELINE BOOTH CIRCLE Marvis Steele handles all aspects of Evangeline Booth, dynamic daughter of William and Catherine, served as Community Care, from designing the Commander of e Salvation Army in the United States, 1904–33, and was gifts, raising funds to purchase the elected rst woman General in 1934. contents, assembling and arranging delivery. When possible, Marvis THE CATHERINE MUMFORD BOOTH CIRCLE involves ladies staying in the shelter Co-founder of e Salvation Army, ghter for women’s rights, and moral crusader, who love to give back by helping out. the wife of William Booth became one of the most in uential women in modern After serving for over 50 years at e religious history. Salvation Army of Lubbock, Marvis committed to one year of volunteer THE FOUNDER’S CIRCLE work to help build the ministry of William Booth, founder of e Salvation Army, turned the world’s attention to e Salvation Army in our county. the plight of the poor and changed the direction of Christianity. We are grateful for her service.
Meals Nights of Food Rent / Utility United Way Galveston Provided Lodging Boxes Assistance County Mainland
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