Wyoming Peach Festival this Saturday! (August 7)
We spent the last week building some peach-themed carnival games for folks as they come by the building during the Wyoming Peach Festival. We’ll need plenty of help setting up and running them Saturday. Setup starts at 7:30 am. The Festival begins at 9:00 am and ends at 3:00 pm.
Since we’ll be right outside our building, it is a great opportunity to meet people and invite them to join us on Sundays. And it’s a great opportunity to bring by a friend to check us out in a relaxed, informal way. So please come enjoy the day!
Save the Date
Here are some things that you may want to mark on your calendar.
Firefly Cleanup for Code Purple – Monday, September 27.
Men’s Retreat – October 16. See more details and a discussion here.
Ramp Rebuild Postponed
The handicap ramp rebuild will have to be postponed because the wood delivery is delayed. We will give updates as they are available.
Volunteer with the Dover IRT
In a nutshell: The U.S. Department of Defense in partnership with the Central Delaware Housing Collaborative presents the Central Delaware Partnership for Hope also referred to as the Greater Dover Healthcare Blitz Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) in association with Delaware State University. This clinic will provide medical, dental, and optical services to residents (ages 2 and up) who are uninsured, underinsured, or in need of quality care at no cost to the patient.
No proof of insurance or identification is needed. Since healthcare services are provided, this is a mask-required event.
If you would like to volunteer, go to the Code Purple website here. Volunteers are needed for a variety of roles–including Spanish or Haitian/Creole interpreters.
For more information, check out the flyers below:
2021 Greater Delaware IRT Flyer
2021 Greater Delaware IRT Flyer – Spanish
Code Purple Firefly Project Sponsorship
As many of you know, we work to help the homeless in the greater Dover area and love partnering with other organizations that serve the homeless population. Several years ago, Deep Water Church began to work with the people who put on Firefly since many of the items left behind after the festival can be useful to the homeless. We currently work hard behind the scenes to collect and clean usable items for Code Purple of Kent County to distribute.
To make this work, we need volunteers from multiple churches and organizations to help us collect and process materials donated and left behind after Firefly.
We’ll soon have signups to help on Monday, September 27. If your business might be interested in donating services, supporting it financially or sending volunteers, let us know! We have local businesses donating trucks, laundering donated goods, etc.
If you’re interested in sponsorship, you can download the flyer:
Code Purple Firefly Project Sponsorship – 2021