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The Goodlette Arms Project for Christmas 2007
Read below for information about Stephanie's Memorial Outreach. This ministry continues to grow each year. I cant wait to see what God does with this next year. Praise Him!
Here is the link to this years 07 project. I posted the video on Godtube. What an amazing night.
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=16cbbc98db1a82b09fa5
If you would like to donate to this project, please email me or send a check to Calvary Chapel of Naples...7760 Haverhill Court- Naples, Florida - 34109. Please put Stephanie Reeve Ministry in the memo section of you check. You can donate in your name or in memory of someone special to you.
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Stephanie had been a Girl Scout since the age of 5 and for several years prior to her death, she and several members of her Girl Scout Troop adopted the residents of a local Social Security Assisted Living Facility. These people are very low-income residents with no assets, SS income only and most with little or no family to assist them. They are just one step out of a state nursing home. This houseing is HUD housing.
Each year the Girl Scout troop would make small handmade gifts and put them into gift bags with candy and tea bags. They would deliver them to the approx 280 small efficiency units at each of the resident’s doors, Christmas Caroling along the way while dropping the bags. The residents would come out and come to the lobby and spend time with the girls.
Over the years many girls dropped out until there was only my daughter and one other girl. After Stephanie’s death in 03, and with the last girl going off to college my family decided to continue on with the tradition in her memory. We bake homemade goodies for days prior, delivering 40 dozen cookies/brownies etc to each of the two buildings lobbies with a card on each door inviting them to come to the lobby to enjoy the treats made in Stephanie’s memory. We repeated this in Dec of 04 also. Then in dec 05 , our third year after Stephanie’s death, my second daughter Ashley asked her youth group of Calvary Chapel of Naples if they would like to help make and deliver bags and also sing,so we could start caroling again. The kids agreed and made 280 handmade cross magnets for each gift bag and church members helped with the baking. It was wonderful.
The youth pastor at the church committed to making this an annual event with the youth , calling it the Stephanie Reeve Ministry Outreach. I decided to start asking for donations to try to put together an awesome gift bags that would really make a difference in their lives.
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Last year Dec 06 , the craft was be a silk rose favor made with a pot pourri bundle attached. I put a small handfull of pot pouri in a 6" square of netting, tie it up and to the rose just under the bud. As always candy, tea bags, small soaps and lotions, glass wipes and a Christian themed card inside.. But most importantly ,we raised enough money to include a $5 publix gift card for all 250 residents. Over half of the cards were donated by Publix which was a huge blessing for us!
This year Dec 07, we are again working on this project. We will be making the craft of a Christmas mouse for each resident, our gift bags with the candy, wipes, soap, lotion, shampoo etc... and although fundraiseing started later due being involved in moving for most of November, we hope to be able to purchase a few itmes for the residents as a whole for thier community room. What we purchase depends totally on how much we raise by Dec 17th which is the day we deliver the bags. I anticipate a large turnout by the church as last year and we will again have over 80 dozen goodies to share with the residents along with caroling and fellowship. God has and will continue to bless this outreach and it is such an honor for me to be able to continue on with something that meant so much to my daughter for so many years of her young life. .
If you would like to donate to this project, please email me or send a check to Calvary Chapel of Naples...7760 Haverhill Court- Naples, Florida - 34109. Please put Stephanie Reeve Ministry in the memo section of you check. You can donate in your name or in memory of someone special to you.
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Word read by Father Tony at Stephanie's service-August 6th, 2003
These words were read by Father Tony, the priest who presided over
Stephanie's service. No one read a eulogy personally. I wrote these words for him to
say.As I expleained in the following words, at the end of the service, Betsy,
a girl who Stephanie had known since age 5 lit Stephanie's Girl Scout candle. The one she made in Daisy scouts, and had lit many times before, in her
bridging ceremonys. After lthe lighting of the candle, the Fire Department Bag
Pipe Band played Amazing Grace. IT was truly beautifull. I had reqested noone blow out her candle, as with tradition the girl scout has to blow it out
herself after she bridges to the next level. But following the bag pipes, the wind
blew out the candle....In my heart, that was Stephanie blowing it out for
herself.
August, 6th 2003
***Stephanie Ann Reeve was a beautiful girl with sky blue eyes who was taken to soon from our lives.
Her brilliance was unmatched and from an early age Stephanie had dreams of
becoming a lawyer. She was to start her 10th grade year at Naples High and was looking forward to continuing in their law classes with the help of Mr. Dan
Cox, her home bound teacher and tutor that she admired greatly. She was hoping to intern next summer with a local law firm.
Stephanie was also an active member of the Girl Scouts of USA since becoming a Daisy Scout in Kindergarten. She earned several awards and badges over the years and also participated with her troop by adopting the residents of the Goodlette Arms Retirement Community.
Stephanie was a top seller of Girl Scout cookies 3 years in a row and one
year set her goal to sell over 1000 boxes. She met her goal and was honored at a banquet in Sarasota Fla for selling 1113 boxes for her troop.
Stephanie was a devoted sister to her younger siblings, much loved by her
Mother and Father, and adored by her Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and friends.
In the Girl Scouts, when a girl proceeds to move up the ladder to a higher
troop, such as brownies, juniors, or cadettes, the girl participates in a
bridging ceremony. At the end of the service, as with the tradition of the Girl
Scouts of the USA, we will light a candle as Stephanie had done several times
before.
This will serve as the candle to light the way to her final crossing of a
bridge, the bridge into the presence of family and loved ones that have already
passed, and into the loving arms of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Please care for her our lord as we will miss her terribly, but are so
thankful to you for allowing us, her family and friends, to have been blessed with her presence for 15 years.
She will forever remain in our hearts***
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