Monday, August 4, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
I Am My Sister's Keeper - 2014 Mini Conference
On Saturday, June 28, 2014, Sister's Celebrating Each Other, Inc. will host our first Women's Conference "I Am My Sister's Keeper". See our brief trailer and flier below.
I Am My Sister's Keeper
Monday, November 11, 2013
2014 SCEO Vision Gala and Charity Fundraiser
If you would like to add your name to the guest list to be notified when the online registration opens in January, you may do so by sending an email to: info@sce-anew.org.
If you are interested in being a vendor, you may also send an inquire to info@sceo-anew.org and place vendor inquire in the subject line. We will get back to ASAP with answers to your questions.
Thank you!
Sister's Celebrating Each Other, Inc.
2013 Thanksgiving Clothing Drive
Sister's
Celebrating Each Other, Inc. is hosting a clothing drive to provide
clothing to two shelters in Contra Costa County who provide assistance
to women and children and we need your help. If you would like to donate
NEW or your gently USED clothing, including shoes and coats, please call our
offices at 925-267-7001 X801 and tell us where we can pick-up your donation. We appreciate your help.
Donate A Gift for Christmas
A note from the President of
Sister's Celebrating Each Other, Inc. regarding the importance of Christmas to
a child and their mother:
When I was little girl during a time when I lived with my mother we lived in a motel on a very busy street. Right around Christmas time there would always be a parade and afterwards the fire department would give out toys to the kids. That year I remember wanting the game of Operation so bad. It’s all I thought about. I remember praying and telling my mother how I really wanted the game, as a matter of fact, I would tell it to everyone that visited our motel room. God does answer prayers! How is it possible that out of all the toys given out on that day, I would end up getting the game of Operation, wrapped and all; this still amazes me today. I was so happy.
When I was little girl during a time when I lived with my mother we lived in a motel on a very busy street. Right around Christmas time there would always be a parade and afterwards the fire department would give out toys to the kids. That year I remember wanting the game of Operation so bad. It’s all I thought about. I remember praying and telling my mother how I really wanted the game, as a matter of fact, I would tell it to everyone that visited our motel room. God does answer prayers! How is it possible that out of all the toys given out on that day, I would end up getting the game of Operation, wrapped and all; this still amazes me today. I was so happy.
Unfortunately, my happiness
didn't last too long because I remember the kids who did not get a toy and how
that still affects me today as well. To this day and now that I am an adult and
I understand life, feelings and hardships, I often think about what that must
have been like for my mother and the other mothers who witnessed their kids not
get a toy that day. I can’t even begin to imagine how they must have felt to
not be able to provide for their children like they may have wanted to. Every
mother wants to provide for their children, right? I have never forgotten that and
my goal, our goal with Sister’s Celebrating Each Other, Inc. is to do our best in making sure another mother or child does not have an experience like I
witnessed more times than I would like to remember.
Therefore, SCEO is starting early in collecting wrapped and unwrapped Christmas gifts for women and children. If you would like to donate a gift and place a special note of hope, encouragement or faith to the mother or child on your gift, we would encourage you to do so. I think it would make it that much more special. Please email us at info@sceo-anew.org or call us at 1-800-388-2815 if you wish to make a donation. We would be more than happy to come and pick your donation up.
We're starting early because we want to provide an abundance of gifts for the women and children who may not otherwise have anything to open at Christmas. SCEO thanks you in advance!
Therefore, SCEO is starting early in collecting wrapped and unwrapped Christmas gifts for women and children. If you would like to donate a gift and place a special note of hope, encouragement or faith to the mother or child on your gift, we would encourage you to do so. I think it would make it that much more special. Please email us at info@sceo-anew.org or call us at 1-800-388-2815 if you wish to make a donation. We would be more than happy to come and pick your donation up.
We're starting early because we want to provide an abundance of gifts for the women and children who may not otherwise have anything to open at Christmas. SCEO thanks you in advance!
A Thought
A Thought:
There are so many homeless people on the street; women and children and young boys alike. For each homeless person, there is a church on every corner. What would happen if each church took their van, a van and did a street sweep; taking each homeless person to a hotel (not motel), a hotel that they have paid for for a week or so and brought members from their churches (whose gifts or ministries) were beauty (manicure and pedicures), health (physicians dieticians, psychologist and counselors) who would donate their time, sharing their gifts freely to cleaning the people up, patching them up and helping them with their mental capacities.
Afterwards the church would take them out to dinner helping them to realize their no different than anyone else. Allowing them to once again feel like normal, like a human being. It would be nice to sit and engage in a casual conversation, one that is not of a condescending nature and that does not have a pre-requisite of being preached to, but rather sitting and listening to what they have to say. I mean really listening to their hearts. Allowing them to talk freely about whom they are and what happened to them. Sometimes we just need people to listen. How many times have we made a phone call to a best friend and all we needed or wanted them to do was listen. We didn’t want an opinion, a suggestion or a comment; we just needed someone to hear us. I imagine it’s no different for those who have found themselves on the street. They too just need an ear to hear them or a shoulder to rest their head on. In fact, they may need it more than some of us do. Regardless of the choices they made that caused them to fall on hard times, they’re still God’s children and he loves them none the less.
Imagine how they would feel after a true demonstration of God’s love has been shown and we have lifted God up as he said in his word, by doing what he, said (feeding clothing, providing shelter and caring for the widow), then he would draw all men to him. Just maybe they would want to join us for Sunday service because what they have seen demonstrated is pure love, no strings attached, no hidden agendas, no strategy to convert, or increase membership, just the purity of love that's all. I wonder what would happen? Just a thought...
What are your thoughts?
There are so many homeless people on the street; women and children and young boys alike. For each homeless person, there is a church on every corner. What would happen if each church took their van, a van and did a street sweep; taking each homeless person to a hotel (not motel), a hotel that they have paid for for a week or so and brought members from their churches (whose gifts or ministries) were beauty (manicure and pedicures), health (physicians dieticians, psychologist and counselors) who would donate their time, sharing their gifts freely to cleaning the people up, patching them up and helping them with their mental capacities.
Afterwards the church would take them out to dinner helping them to realize their no different than anyone else. Allowing them to once again feel like normal, like a human being. It would be nice to sit and engage in a casual conversation, one that is not of a condescending nature and that does not have a pre-requisite of being preached to, but rather sitting and listening to what they have to say. I mean really listening to their hearts. Allowing them to talk freely about whom they are and what happened to them. Sometimes we just need people to listen. How many times have we made a phone call to a best friend and all we needed or wanted them to do was listen. We didn’t want an opinion, a suggestion or a comment; we just needed someone to hear us. I imagine it’s no different for those who have found themselves on the street. They too just need an ear to hear them or a shoulder to rest their head on. In fact, they may need it more than some of us do. Regardless of the choices they made that caused them to fall on hard times, they’re still God’s children and he loves them none the less.
Imagine how they would feel after a true demonstration of God’s love has been shown and we have lifted God up as he said in his word, by doing what he, said (feeding clothing, providing shelter and caring for the widow), then he would draw all men to him. Just maybe they would want to join us for Sunday service because what they have seen demonstrated is pure love, no strings attached, no hidden agendas, no strategy to convert, or increase membership, just the purity of love that's all. I wonder what would happen? Just a thought...
What are your thoughts?
It's not failure, it's called perseverance
A Word from the President:
Getting Sister's Celebrating Each Other, Inc. moving is the right direction has been a challenge to say the least. I had to realize bringing a dream or vision, into a reality is hard, painful work and often times it's a VERY LONELY place. It presents challenges unlike any others you will face and YOU WILL make many mistakes. I have faced difficulty, challenges and so much more, and yes, I have even made some stupid mistakes. Yet in still, I remain steadfast in my belief that the lives of many women and children will be changed as a result of our steadfast endurance through the challenging places.
Since our incorporation in August of 2011, we've had our share of challenges, both corporate side and in my own personal life. We’ve had some volunteers come and we've had them go; we’ve worked from my home, moved into an office and are now relocating to an entirely new city. We've had websites go up, and websites come down, we've changed the website about four different times and we recently just finished another revision.
You may be asking why I have chosen to share this; here's why, many people won't tell you ALL the "He double hockey sticks" they had to go through to arrive at a place of “success” however you classify success. They only want to share the good stuff and leave you with a fairy-tell story of how they made it. There are no fairy-tell stories when bringing forth vision and I wanted to share the not so good stuff for anyone out there trying to give birth to their dream. Not to scare you, but in an attempt to make you aware and prepare you to be triumphant in your endeavor.
I want to encourage you with the truth, in hopes of encouraging you to not give up and to keep going. It may look like things are falling apart and people seem to be leaving the team left and right and many other things may be going wrong; change your perspective, it's not failure, it's called perseverance!!!
There are many lessons to be learned on the journey bringing forth your dream. On the journey to fulfill your vision, your commitment will be tested, you will see areas of weakness you posses, your discipline will be challenged or lack of highlighted; your faith will be heavily tried, your love with be put to the ultimate test, repeatedly, your integrity will be called into question and your faithfulness will be misconstrued as craziness, but don't you dare stop, there is victory on the horizon.
You will, arrive at the appointed place and time for the vision to come to fruition and YES, there will still be work to be done even after so-call “arriving”. In this newly found place, you will find joy and excitement instead of pain and frustration. Sister's Celebrating Each Other, Inc. (SCEO), is at that place today and we want to encourage you and let you know, so will you arrive, if you fail not!
SCEO is relocating to Pittsburg, California. We are planning to relaunch our organization in the Contra Costa County area of Pittsburg, reaching out to other local nonprofits to form a collaborative effort to assist those in need. We will officially begin our operations in January 2014, with many great events following in the year of 2014. We will keep you abreast to our works via all of our social media sites, including our website. You can visit our website at www.sco-anew.org. Follow-us via social media.
Getting Sister's Celebrating Each Other, Inc. moving is the right direction has been a challenge to say the least. I had to realize bringing a dream or vision, into a reality is hard, painful work and often times it's a VERY LONELY place. It presents challenges unlike any others you will face and YOU WILL make many mistakes. I have faced difficulty, challenges and so much more, and yes, I have even made some stupid mistakes. Yet in still, I remain steadfast in my belief that the lives of many women and children will be changed as a result of our steadfast endurance through the challenging places.
Since our incorporation in August of 2011, we've had our share of challenges, both corporate side and in my own personal life. We’ve had some volunteers come and we've had them go; we’ve worked from my home, moved into an office and are now relocating to an entirely new city. We've had websites go up, and websites come down, we've changed the website about four different times and we recently just finished another revision.
You may be asking why I have chosen to share this; here's why, many people won't tell you ALL the "He double hockey sticks" they had to go through to arrive at a place of “success” however you classify success. They only want to share the good stuff and leave you with a fairy-tell story of how they made it. There are no fairy-tell stories when bringing forth vision and I wanted to share the not so good stuff for anyone out there trying to give birth to their dream. Not to scare you, but in an attempt to make you aware and prepare you to be triumphant in your endeavor.
I want to encourage you with the truth, in hopes of encouraging you to not give up and to keep going. It may look like things are falling apart and people seem to be leaving the team left and right and many other things may be going wrong; change your perspective, it's not failure, it's called perseverance!!!
There are many lessons to be learned on the journey bringing forth your dream. On the journey to fulfill your vision, your commitment will be tested, you will see areas of weakness you posses, your discipline will be challenged or lack of highlighted; your faith will be heavily tried, your love with be put to the ultimate test, repeatedly, your integrity will be called into question and your faithfulness will be misconstrued as craziness, but don't you dare stop, there is victory on the horizon.
You will, arrive at the appointed place and time for the vision to come to fruition and YES, there will still be work to be done even after so-call “arriving”. In this newly found place, you will find joy and excitement instead of pain and frustration. Sister's Celebrating Each Other, Inc. (SCEO), is at that place today and we want to encourage you and let you know, so will you arrive, if you fail not!
SCEO is relocating to Pittsburg, California. We are planning to relaunch our organization in the Contra Costa County area of Pittsburg, reaching out to other local nonprofits to form a collaborative effort to assist those in need. We will officially begin our operations in January 2014, with many great events following in the year of 2014. We will keep you abreast to our works via all of our social media sites, including our website. You can visit our website at www.sco-anew.org. Follow-us via social media.
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