A HUGE Thank You!

It has been over a week since True Vineyard Ministries' 10th Annual Chocolate Covered Strawberry Fundraiser finished up. We are so incredibly grateful for the hard work of our volunteers that made this fundraiser a success! In spite of the uncertain weather (freezing cold, rain, wind, and warmth - all in 4 days!), everyone showed up and served with a cheerful, giving attitude. We thank you for your service and sacrifice.

Some of the highlights from the weekend: 

~ Driving by selling stations and seeing our volunteers JUMPING around with the signs to get people to come and buy the strawberries.
~ Volunteers donating tents to put up at various selling stations so our volunteers could sell in the rain! What great spirits!
~ Learning that a family purchased five dozen chocolate-covered strawberries to donate to the local homeless shelter.
~ Donating the leftover chocolate-covered strawberries to the Hays Caldwell Women's Shelter.
~ Valentine's Day - V-DAY D-DAY! The fearless few working in the Chocolate Factory have NEVER dipped so quickly in their lives... What a busy day!
~ Volunteers sacrificially stepping up to fill in any selling gaps we had over the weekend.

We also want to give a special THANK YOU to the organizations who offered us a selling space or provided volunteers for this fundraiser:

~ First United Methodist Church (giving us space to sell outside of the church AND to use the Activities Center for The TVM Chocolate Factory!)
~ River Stone community church - for providing an incredible amount of volunteers and for your promotion of this event
~ PromiseLand Church for welcoming our volunteers to sell the chocolate-covered strawberries on Sunday!
~ Christ Church Anglican in Austin - for hosting an entire Austin Chocolate Factory and selling these strawberries on Sunday!
~ Central Texas Medical Center
~ The Stone Coffee and Juice Bar
~ B&J Pharmacy
~ Victory Cleaners (and a special thank you to Texas State SIFE students!)
~ Sam's Club
~ Texas State Quad (a special thank you to the service sorority Chi Beta Delta!)

 As always, we could never complete this fundraiser without the help and sacrifice of the many individuals and organizations that volunteered their time and resources to make this fundraiser a success!

These resources will better empower True Vineyard Ministries in Rwanda this upcoming March. TVM is bringing a small mission team to Rwanda in March to complete a fencing project around a new piece of land that will hold our ever-increasing flock of merino sheep! We are continually working to keep our sheep healthy and safe so that they will continue to product the high quality merino wool for the TVM widow's cooperative in Musanze, Rwanda.

Again, thank you. We praise God for all the beautiful things that are happening to His people in Rwanda. Stay tuned on our blog to learn about recent developments on the ground in Rwanda!

Blessings,

The Team at TVM

10th Annual Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Fundraiser!

True Vineyard Ministries is thrilled to be hosting our 10th Annual Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Sale this year for Valentine's Day!

This year we are selling at SEVEN locations in San Marcos and now we are selling our strawberries in New Braunfels, at The Stone Coffee and Juice Bar.

We also need VOLUNTEERS! Please visit our sign-up website so you can sign up for a volunteer slot any time from Saturday Feb. 11th through Tuesday Feb. 14th! We cannot do this without the help of our incredible volunteer base.

Click here to sign up: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0F4BA9AA2C7-true

For more information on where our amazing volunteers will be selling these FRESHLY dipped chocolate-covered strawberries, check out the locations below!