THANK YOU EVERYONE!

For Saturday's outreach there was a lot of preparation!
Teri, Karen, Hez, Josiah, Mariah, Rich, Rudy,Deb, Maddie & Cece THANK YOU for countless hours~ prayers, shopping, bundling, organizing, loading the truck in super cold weather after midnight~ praise JESUS for the willingness from Robin at Wal Mart helping Rudy and I load up the last of our shopping and team RAVEN who didn't let a 10pm call out for help stop them~ nope, we worked until 1am and laughed and bundled up over 1,000 to toys! Also, thank you, THANK YOU to:
Julanne Watry, Stephanie Calstrom, Gloria, Gloria, Deb, Myles, Nangle Family, Mariah, Katie, Dalton, Ashley, Trevor, Jonathan, Anthony, Robert, Jon, R. Ramirez, Laney, Robin, Kristine, Zach, Jordon, Tim, Dayna, Tonie, Dolan, Nick, Shayne, Korie, Anthony, Maddie, Cece, my dad Reg, Teri, Jamie, Rich, Karen, Hez, Josiah and so many others who didn't sign in or met us out on the street~ PRAISE GOD FOR YOUR SERVANT'S HEART~~
May you be blessed and drawn closer to the LORD for what HE showed you while on the street~
I will be posting pictures soon~
Next year we hope to see you again~
RAVEN SR CHRISTMAS~ it MUST be an annual event! R U READY?
Please know that there are other opportunities daily/weekly~ keep checking the blog and take a look at the calendar that gets updated frequently on the right.
DRY CREEK BAND of POMO INDIANS~ THANK YOU so much for your generous donation of toys that were given away on Saturday into the hands of countless families across Santa Rosa~
KAREN DONAGHY~ thank you for all the phone time, planning, ideas and prayers~ I think it went well (!)~ your help was tremendous!
MARIAH MULLINS thank you for spear heading this outreach that blessed so many and making sure you could rearrange your busy life just when I really needed you too while in Mexico, you GO GIRL!
TERI BENNETT~ thank you for the hours spent packaging all the cookies and tying bows and showing up to hand them out with hugs and prayers to so many~
USMC~ thank you for your willingness to lend a hand to so many children this weekend on your "time off." We will continue to stand in faith that NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU WILL PROSPER~
RAVEN TEAM~ it's bigger than we think! LOVE YOU! THANKS FOR YOUR PRAYERS!!!
and thank you to the hundreds of children, mothers, fathers, grandparents of Santa Rosa's toughest neighborhoods~ for welcoming us into your lives and praising JESUS along side us all this Christmas Season~ it was a beautiful day!
ALL GOOD THINGS,
PASTOR RUDY & LORI GONZALEZ