Saturday of Service (SOS), May 1st and 2nd

thousands are coming together to serve others........

Mark your calendars for our next SOS coming up the 1st weekend of May, Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd. This SOS will be an extra special one as our church will be joining 40+ churches across Dallas to GO AND BE the church that Jesus has called us to be. Take a look at their website http://www.goandbe.org/ for the heart and soul of this initiative.

While you are on their site, you can view all the "Projects" that are available (keep checking back as projects are being added daily) and sign up for the one that speaks to your family.

The Corners Church will be sponsoring the following projects:

"Jesus Loves You" Picnic at Old Settlers Park in McKinney from 10am - 3pm on Saturday, May 1st.

Project Manager: Chad Price chprice458@aol.com cell: 214-228-6292

Location: Old Settlers Park, 1201 East Louisiana Street, McKinney 75069-4290

Time: Set-up at 10am, Picnic from 11am - 2pm, Clean-up 2-3pm

Here is a list of needs for the picnic:

• 250-300 hot dogs
• 1 BBQ Grill
• Cookies, Brownies, snack food
• Bags of mixed wrapped candy
• paper plates, plastic ware, cups
• trash bags, napkins, paper towels
• 4 large ice chests and 8 bags of ice
• 250-300 individually wrapped SPICY chips
• 250-300 drinks - soda, juice, water
• individual bubbles for the kids

"Fix the Community Center" at Redbud Apartments in McKinney on Saturday, May 1st from 9am - Noon.

Project Manager: Sandra Vlahakis avlahakis@tx.rr.com

Location: Redbud Trail Apartments, 1300 North Redbud Blvd, McKinney

Time: 9am - Noon, Saturday, May 1st

We will be giving the Community Center at the apartments a "Spring Cleaning" as well as upgrading the storage and organization of the center. Supplies needed:

• Cleaning supplies: brooms, mops, garbage bags, cleaning products, etc.
• Paint: nut-brown for the book shelves, as well as various colors to dip the kids hands in and put their prints on the wall
• Lots of clear plastic containers for: pens, crayons, scissors, glue, etc.
• Label machine and labels
• Storage boxes for stuffed animals
• Educational materials and learning games
• Floor lamps
• Poster board and decorations

"Spring Fling" at Slaughter Elementary School in McKinney on Friday, May 7th.

Project Manager: Bruno and Rene' Lopez rlopez@jimlakeco.com cell: 214-458-2025

Location: Slaughter Elementary School, 2706 Wolford St., McKinney

Time: Friday, May 7th. Set-up is all day Friday, Event is from 5-9pm, Clean-up 9pm - ??

The school's PTO sponsors an end of the year carnival for the children. They would like our help with:

• candy donations
• cake donations
• pretty containers to put the silent auction donations in
• lots of volunteers: for set-up during the day, for the event from 5 - 9pm, and clean-up after the event 9pm - ??

Saturday of Service (SOS) January 23rd

SOS – Saturday, January 23rd

We have an awesome list of projects scheduled for our next Saturday of Service (SOS). Please see below for details on description of the project, location, time, and contact person:

Backyard Bible Club: These are like a mini VBS. We will be teaching a Bible Story, doing a craft, having a snack, etc. We will be holding them at 2 different apartments:

Redbud Trail Apartments: 1300 N Redbud Blvd, McKinney. 10 am - Noon. Sandra Vlahakis, Project Leader avlahakis@tx.rr.com

Woodside Village Apartments: 703 Bumpas Street, McKinney. 2 - 4pm. College and Youth, Project Leaders stephenp@thecornerschurch.com

Fix a House: This generally includes minor repairs, hauling away debris, etc. We will be fixing 2 houses:

Pastor Willie and Sweet Mama Simms – 216 Carver Street, McKinney 75069. 9am - Noon will be the house repair portion of the project. From Noon - 3pm we will have a Fish Fry and neighborhood outreach for the surrounding community. Greg and Chris Harden, Project Leaders christine.harden@kone.com bdagah0@yahoo.com

Pete Tanguma – 1300 Garcia Street, McKinney 75069. Bob and Brenda Willis, Project Leaders bobbrendawillis@tx.rr.com

Fix a School: Slaughter Elementary School, 2706 Wolford Street, McKinney. 9am - Noon. For information, please contact Sharon Neill sharonneill@rocketmail.com

We are taking part in Mckinney’s Adopt-a-School program. We will be working with Slaughter Elementary. To kick off our relationship with this school we will be helping with some projects at the school. For this project we will be partnering with Wesley United Methodist Church who is also taking part in the Adopt-a-School program with Slaughter.

The Corners Church will be taking the lead in building a small stage for a "Principal Reading Corner". Wesley UMC will be leading the project in "warming up" and decorating another room at the school.

Saturday of Service (SOS)

Mark your calendars for the next Saturday of Service (SOS) on Saturday, October 3rd.

This one is sure to be bigger and better yet !! Start thinking and praying now for where you would like to serve. All our projects are kid friendly and we encourage every family to bring their children. Please review the list of projects, decide which project speaks to your heart, and then contact the project leaders for further details.


Backyard Bible Club - Project Leaders: Darryl and Micole Thrasher

Mini VBS for the children - games, bible stories, music, food
Location: Willowcreek Fellowship Church, 1804 P Ave, Plano 75074 (972) 423-2950
Time: 12:30 for set-up; 1 - 3 pm

Contact the Thrashers if you can help: Darryl cell: 214-537-3083 darryl_thrasher@tx.rr.com; Micole cell: 972-342-3252 micole_thrasher@tx.rr.com


Jesus Loves You Picnic - Project Leader: Chad Price

Food, games, music, face painting
We'd like to offer free haircuts - let Chad know if you can cut hair
We'd like to offer free dental checkups - let Chad know if you are a dentist

Location: Willowcreek Park, of Jupiter Road between East Spring Creek Parkway and Parker in Plano 75074
Time: 10 for set-up; Picnic runs from 11 am - 1 pm; 1pm - ?? for tear down

Contact Chad if you can help: home: 214-228-6292 email: chprice458@aol.com


Fixing a House - Project Leaders: Jeff Rice and Erik Rogers

The house is in the Park and Preston area. Go west on Park, left on Ohio, and left on Atlanta - the house number is 4544. Two older ladies live there with the 4 year old and 2 year old grandchildren, both girls. The mother is drug addicted and basically dropped the children off with her mother (Joan Rawls) and aunt. Come share the love of Jesus with this family !! Contact Jeff or Erik if you can help.

There are several requirements for this project:
A tree trimming crew - there is a huge tree in the front yard that needs some major trimming
A landscaping crew - for the front yard cleaning out the beds and trimming bushes

Location: 4544 Atlanta Drive, Plano 75093
Time: 9am - noon

Contact Jeff cell: 214-417-7156 jeff_rice@sbcglobal.net
Contact Erik cell: 214-274-9797 erik.rogers@pursuant.net


Life Care Center / Emily's House - Project Leaders: Yvonne Main and Lori Blackwell

We will go to Life Care Center (a retirement home) from 1 -3 pm and give manicures to the ladies. They would like someone to play piano also -- let Yvonne and Lori know if you can play for them.

Location: Life Care Center of Plano: 3800 West Park Boulevard, Plano, TX 75075; Phone: (972) 612-1700
Time: 1 - 3 pm

Contact Yvonne at cell: 214-471-7619, home: 469-952-1137, email: rmain@figfs.com
Contact Lori Blackwell at: home: 972-562-8832, email: loripalermo419@aol.com


God's Food Pantry - Project Leaders: Lisa Hoyle and Ayashia Duru

From 9am - 1pm we will be assisting the pantry in sorting and stocking the food.

Location: God's Food Pantry: Address 3420 E. 14th Street, Suite 101Plano, Texas 75074; Phone: 972.633.9777 E-mail: godsfoodpantry@aol.com Michael and Linda White run the pantry
Time: 9am - 1pm

Lisa Hoyles at home: 214-548-4765 email: lisaqzz@yahoo.com
Ayeshia Duru at home: 972.678.0263 email: ayeshiaduru@gmail.com

Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive

In conjunction with this project, we will be having a Food Drive at the church. 7 year old Caleb Knights has felt the call of God on his life and has agreed to head up and coordinate the food drive. 1st - 4th grade children will be helping him with this. Support the children by bringing food donations to the Children's Dept. and Missions Room.

"For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself." Acts 2:39