Potluck Picnic with Passion

Gainesville, FL...

Dear friend,

We hope that we can count on you.  Please join Lou and I and our family as we celebrate the 4th Annual LIVE WITH PASSION- A worldwide day of events to support the PV Volunteers.  As you know, our family have been going to West Virginia every summer, along with our grandchildren, to help the poor people in Wyoming County.  We repair houses, fix leaky roofs, build porches and ramps for the wheelchair bound, and many more compassionate work. Last year, the PV Volunteers lost their main source of financial support from the Passionist Organization.  As with many of the religious organizations, the Passionist priests also suffers from economic hardships and could no longer continue to support the PV Volunteers' work with the poor.  LIVE WITH PASSION, is a yearly event where we hope to gather our friends and families in support of the work that we do.  So mark your calendar now.  It will be a lot of fun!  See the announcement below......

 

Yours truly,                         

Lou & Alicia

                  

Date:   Saturday, April 30, 2011  from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm

 

Event:   Potluck Picnic lunch.  Drinks will be provided.  Bring a dish to share and your tennis shoes.  We will have a variety of relay race for everyone to participate, Board games, Card games, Stories and pictures.  Young and old are welcomed. Prizes and photo opportunities await you!

 

Location:  Opossum Creek Park on NW 53rd Ave across Trinity Methodist Church

 

Your tax deductible donation to the PV Volunteers is graciously accepted.

 

For more information, contact Lou or Alicia at dcnurse2@yahoo.com or 375-1141  or e-mail Jill Wallace, Co-Director at pvprogram@gmail.com or (347) 217-3619.

 

To learn more about The PV Volunteer program, go to their website: www.pvprogram.org

Plant with Passion....Atchison, KS

Atchison, KS....

Farmers Plant with Passion

and support the PV Volunteers!

    The PV Volunteers is an organization that works with the people of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia.  During the summer PVs from all around the world volunteer their time to serve the people of West Virginia.  The projects of the PVs include: home repair, organizing a summer long tutoring program and week long kids’ camps, working in a food pantry, and visiting a long term care facility for mentally-challenged adults.  PV Volunteers empower individuals to better themselves and look past the endings towards the promising hope of seeds that bring new beginnings.

How can you be a part of it?

Choose one day out of the month of April and keep track of every acre you plant that day.  For every 25 acres you plant, donate 25 dollars to the PV Volunteers.  Every 25 dollars that you donate will go to support the work of the summer long program and enter your name into a drawing to win

With your help, the PV Volunteers can continue their mission of building, serving, and believing through their work in West Virginia.

Ag Risk Solutions will also make a contribution to the PV Program for every acre that is signed up.

Gardeners Plant with Passion

and support the PV Volunteers!

    The PV Volunteers is an organization that works with the people of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia.  During the summer PVs from all around the world volunteer their time to serve the people of West Virginia.  The projects of the PVs include: home repair, organizing a summer long tutoring program and week long kids’ camps, working in a food pantry, and visiting a long term care facility for mentally-challenged adults.  PV Volunteers empower individuals to better themselves and look past the endings towards the promising hope of seeds that bring new beginnings.

How can you be a part of it?

Keep track of every day you spend in your garden throughout the month of April.  For every day you spend in your garden, donate 25 dollars to the PV Volunteers.  Every 25 dollars that you donate will go to support the work of the summer long program and enter your name into a drawing to win

 

With your help, the PV Volunteers can continue their mission of building, serving, and believing through their work in West Virginia.

Live with Passion...Washington, DC

4th Annual PV Team Relay

TEAM EVENT

125 MILE RELAY RUN/BIKE (IN 24 HOURS) ON THE C&O CANAL

APRIL 30- May 1, 2011

Are you interested in a challenge that will benefit the PV Volunteers in their efforts to provide support to marginalized people in rural towns in West Virginia and in  Bedford-Stuyvesant, NY???

Each team will alternate running and biking  a total of 7 segments of the canal for a total of about 125 miles. This is a charity event and each participant will be asked to donate (or collect donations) of at least $50. The event will end at Fletcher’s Cove on Sunday the 1^st of May at noon with a picnic.

Form a team yourself or join a team. This is will be fun event (not a race) for all who participate.

Interested? Give me a call for more details. Can’t run or bike, contact me and I will tell you how you can help.

John J. Dean

202-212-6302 (after April 15, 703-971-5718)

jjdean@bfsfcu.org (after April 15, logan4497@hotmail.com)

Another Creative LWP Event!!!

Purchase with Passion in Kansas City!!!!

Participants will spend their day thrifting at some of Kansas City's best thrift stores.  At the end of their thrifting trip, they can estimate how much money they saved by buying clothes (or items) from a thrift store instead of a department store and donate the saved money to the PVs!

Thanks Mary and Rebecca for thinking of this idea and organizing it!

Benefit Concert at West Chester University

We will be spotlighting a few of the different events that will be taking place on or around the "Live with Passion" weekend in the coming days and weeks.

Today's spotlight is on a Concert to benefit the PVs at West Chester University on Saturday, April 23rd.  Our very own summer long PV, Eileen, has organized this event at her school to help support the program.  It sounds like it should be an entertaining afternoon and highly encourage anyone in the area to turnout and support her efforts.  Specifics about the event are at the bottom of the post.

Thank you Eileen for thinking creatively and organizing this to help the PVs!!!

PV Volunteers Benefit Concert

Time	Saturday, April 23 · 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location	Swope Instrumental Room (141) West Chester University of Pennsylvania
More Info	Join us for an afternoon of pop, rock, and musical theatre songs at the PV Volunteers Benefit Concert & Bake Sale! The event will take place in Swope Instrumental Room (141) on Saturday April 23, 2011. The show will start at 3pm, but be sure to get there early to snack on some yummy baked goods! **Suggested Donation of $5 for the Performance** All proceeds will directly benefit the PV Volunteers program. For more information, visi...t their website at www.pvprogram.org or find them on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22684138946 Performances include selections from: Spring Awakening Little Women Chess Godspell RENT Sara Bareilles Adele The Beatles Frank Sinatra ...and more! Performers: Beth Serowsky, Eileen Tarquinio, Olivia Weiss, Whitney Hayes, Maggie Kelly, and Joanna Volpe, with a special appearance by Josh Yoder! Piano accompaniment provided by Hannah Knauss. And don't forget about the BAKE SALE, featuring delicious homemade goodies for your snacking delight! Who doesn't like eating sweets while listening to awesome music? **If you would like to donate a baked good, please contact Beth Serowsky via Facebook or at BS653261@wcupa.edu**

Thank You!!!

We are pleased to announce that we have 18 sponsors for this year's Live with Passion! Thank you to those that are sponsoring and to those that solicited the sponsors.  Now that all the sponsors are set, final plans are in the works for the different events. 

It's not too late to host an event!  Just let us know what your plans are and we will add it to our site list.  We will be posting more detailed information about the events for each site shortly.