Two Christmas Parties this week on Thursday!

With our bustling hive of a site, we have not one, but TWO, Christmas parties this week on Thursday! Our Mid Town Family Resource Center will have their Christmas party here at our center (the middle door of our complex!) with a meal and some family fellowship time for our families we work with in the McKinley neighborhood, centered around our after school program. At Thanksgiving, there were 52 people present for the monthly celebration! Lisa and her staff work hard to support the families in the neighborhood and these monthly fellowship times are key to that work. Lisa just returned from the Partners in Prevention team leader meeting in Morgantown, where she meets with the other counties team leaders and the statewide leaders of Prevent Child Abuse and the Team for WV Children.
Also on Thursday, the foster care program is having their Christmas party for the foster families. Since this program has grown so dramatically in the past year, we had to move to a larger location! Christ United Methodist Church graciously has offered their fellowship hall for this exciting event! Its just down the street! The foster care staff, and Missy Storey, one of our VISTA workers, have been working hard on making the foster care party a great event! Greg Nicholson, our recent foster care aide, has been a dynamo of seeking community donations and support for this, and all kinds of things, since he arrived. Just today we got a very spectacular gift Christmas tree, from Tres Ross of the Ross Foundation, who won the Winnie the Pooh themed tree at an Easter Seals Festival of Trees auction this past week. Tres had been at our Afterschool program event recently (the Lights on Afterschool day) and thought of us for this tree. Stay tuned for reports on these great upcoming events!!!