Welcome

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Happy Fall Y’all! It is hard to believe that we’re in October already and in our second full year of Birthday Wishes Ministry! Take a look at all that has happened and what this new season is bringing! I cannot thank you all enough for your love and support! 

Our September meeting was a great success! About 25 women attended. We wrapped about 385 gifts and made about 350 cards as well!  What a great time meeting each other and working together! 

Our first gifts for this school year were delivered to eight schools in September by our new volunteers! Very exciting! Now we’re getting ready to deliver November and December gifts! I’m still hopeful that we will get the last  Brunswick County school’s list soon!

The St. James Service Group invited us to attend their monthly meeting last week to share information about Birthday Wishes along with several other non-profits in Brunswick County. We are getting the word out! We picked up several new volunteers which will help us to expand outside of our community for support. 

Our focus now is going to be on fundraising! We have several ideas and are hoping to get dates on our calendars and the appropriate teams in place to support these events.

Our major fundraiser will be the Spring Ladies Tea and Boutique featuring “Another Woman’s Treasures”. This event will be held Wednesday, April 19, 2023. We will be looking for volunteers to help coordinate the boutique and set up the luncheon, etc. We’ve already been collecting treasures and tea pots for our centerpieces! What fun! 

Other ideas which we are hoping to organize are a Jazz night at Carolina National Golf Course, a music night at Makai Brewery, wine tasting, art and craft nights and promoting Birthday Wishes at area festivals!  If you have an idea for us, please contact me at the address below.

We’re currently putting together some craft kits for you to help us make cards for our inventory. These will be available at our next meeting. 

Get the word out to your friends and neighbors to clean out their closets and consider donating their “treasures” in support of Birthday Wishes! We are collecting all jewelry, scarves, purses, wallets, watches, etc.  It’s not too early!  We will have to organize our boutique and tag everything well in advance.

Tell people about this ministry!   Awareness within our community as well as outside our community is key to   making Birthday Wishes Ministry a success.