eNews, February 13, 2019

eNews, February 13, 2019

13 Feb 2019 | Posted by: chadmin

The annual Kelly Needham Memorial Blood Drive is Saturday, February 23 in the parish center banquet room from 8am-12pm. To make an appointment, contact the parish office during regular hours or go to www.redcrossblood.org and type in the sponsor code STPHILS.

Help is needed at the Feb. 23 blood drive. Click here to sign up. Would love some junior high, high school or college students to help with check in as part of it is computer based and typically comes naturally to them.

St. Philomena NIGHT OUT: MATT FALEY IN CONCERT Saturday, February 16 in the Parish Center from 7-9pm. Must be at least age 21 to attend. Click here for details.  For info on Matt, visit www.mattfaley.com.

St. Philomena Parish offers a Montessori preschool for 3-year-old children, September-May, three days a week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We have a morning program 8:00 –11:00 am or afternoon program 12:00-3:00 pm. For more information or a registration packet, contact Jenny Witt in the parish office at 309-682-8642 or jwitt@stphils.com.

Men’s Club Smoker will be Sunday, March 3 from 12-5pm in the school gym. Men’s Club members are needed to volunteer. Click here for event details or to volunteer.  

Save the date for a pancake and sausage breakfast sponsored by the St. Philomena Cub Scout Pack #18. Join the Scouts on Sun., Mar. 10 from 8am-1pm in the school cafeteria.

Join us for February’s Women’s Night Thursday, February 28 at 7:00pm in the Parish Center. It’s fellowship with B-I-N-G-O! 

There’s still time to pay on your ADA pledge. Payments made through February 2019 are counted toward our 2018 goal. Reminder: any shortfall in payments to our pledge is the responsibility of the parish. Right now we are $5,397 short on payments. Thank you to everyone who has paid off and is making payments on their 2018 pledge. 

AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization (like St. Philomena Church & School!) every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the same shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to the charity you choose. Shop at smile.amazon.com/ch/37-0794772, and Amazon will donate to St. Philomena Church & School. Don’t forget to purchase your Amazon Scrip to use when shopping on Amazon!

Kroger Plus Card users – it’s time for your quarterly reports to be filed in the parish office for your Scrip rebates. Email mbvee@yahoo.com, drop off a copy or leave a copy at the Scrip table on the weekend.

Biddy Basketball registration is open at www.stphils.com/school/ (click on the icon for Athletics Registration-League Lineup on the bottom half of the page) Open to boys and girls in our parish who are in grades 1-4. Athletics is also accepting team sponsors at $50 per team. Contact Jim Akers, athletics@stphils.com.