September 25: Hands and Feet of Asheville Kick-Off Event

I'm helping spread the word of a fall kickoff event for Hands & Feet of Asheville, a local nonprofit organization with ties to the PCUSA's Young Adult Volunteer program and to Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church. I'm honored to be serving on the board of this organization, which brings young adults to Asheville for a year of service to local nonprofits, living in intentional Christian community together.

On behalf of our Board of Directors and our Executive Director Selena Hilemon, I'd like to invite you to come to our Hands and Feet 2015-16 program year kickoff event, which will be hosted by Kathy Meacham (who serves as chair of the Board) in her Kenilworth home on Friday evening September 25, from 5:30-7pm. There is no cost to attend -- and you can meet our SIX wonderful volunteers for the 2015-16 program year, who have been working in their respective local organizations for one whole week now, while settling into their own little community together with each other, in a West Asheville house! This year's volunteers are all either freshly minted college graduates or 1-2 years out of college.

Our partner organizations this year include:

-- Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity (hosting 1 volunteer)
-- Beloved Community & Asheville Poverty Initiative (sharing 1 volunteer)
-- Homeward Bound (hosting 2 volunteers)
-- West Asheville Presbyterian Church / The Community on Haywood (hosting 1 volunteer); and
-- YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly (hosting 1 volunteer)

We are excited to reintroduce the program after a sabbatical year from active volunteer placement. The PCUSA has provided amazing support for the Hands and Feet program, which is serving as one of its newest official "YAV" sites across the USA. If the idea of being involved with an organization that helps motivated, idealistic, hard working young adults find their faith, passion, and possibly vocation in service to community appeals to you -- come out and learn a little bit more! We would love to keep you in the loop as Hands and Feet launches this program year.

RSVPs for the September 25 event are requested by Sunday, September 20th to Selena Hilemon, our site coordinator / executive director, at handsandfeetavl@gmail.com. Please consider stopping in -- ask an interested friend or coworker to come with you! And if you can't make it but would like to be on our "friends" list to receive the newsletter or other information, I can do that too, just let me know!

Peace,
Andrea Rosal

Treasurer and Board Member of Hands and Feet of Asheville

P.S. If it's easier, you may also RSVP via this Evite link: http://evite.me/edfgj6VYw6