Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church

Budget tight? The HOLY GROUND THRIFT STORE has prices that are just right! We have everyday bargains for all. The shop is at 155 S Ninth Street, located behind Our Lady Queen of America’s church in Conneaut Lake on the corners of Rt 285W and Rt. 6W. Come shop with us: Monday 5:30 – 7:30 pm or Thursdays 9:00 am – 6:00 PM and find your bargain. We welcome your clean donated items on Mondays 9:00 am until NOON & 5:30 pm until 7:30 pm and Thursdays Noon until 5:00 pm. More information: 382-4487.

On Tuesday, February 7th, the Altar Rosary Society will meet at 6:30 pm, beginning with the recitation of the Rosary in the church.

Our speaker for the evening will be Michal Brawn. At the end of Feb.  He will be traveling to the Dominican Republic for “HOPE FOR HISPANIOLA.”  There he will join with a mission team to build a church in the town of Higuey. In the past this mission team has built other centers and secured clean water for the villages. Please join us on Feb. 7th for a wonderful informative evening.

These are quotes taken from parents who participated in the “Gifts for Kids” Christmas angel program.  Many others voiced their appreciation on the day they picked up their gifts.  Those of you who participated in this program in any way did a wonderful thing.  May you have a blessed new year.

“I just wanted to say thank you so much for giving my kids a much better Christmas than I was able to afford this year. I felt a little uncomfortable needing to apply for gifts for my boys but am so thankful that I did. I hope everyone who participated in this realize how truly wonderful all of you are for providing this great service to needy families. I only hope that in the near future I can participate in purchasing gifts for a family in need as opposed to being that family. Again I thank you, words can’t express what a truly wonderful gift you have given me this holiday season.

 Thank you so very much for everything you’ve done for my Grandchildren’s gifts.

 I just wanted to thank-you again for the wonderful thing you are doing for me and my family!!!  Saying thank-you seems like its not enough, but from the bottom of my heart Thank-you!!  May God bless you and have a very Merry Christmas!!

 Thank you for the help for Christmas.  God bless.

 I want to thank you again for helping my kids have a good Christmas. It’s been a rough few months and I am shamed that I am not able to give them what they want…. means so much knowing there are still good people out there.

 The Samaritan help has lifted my heart.  You have a very special place in my heart.

 I can’t thank you enough for your help! Merry Christmas!

 Thank you for making our holidays happen!

 If you could possibly help me with Christmas I would really appreciate it.  I recently became single and trying so hard to get back on my own two feet.  Hopefully things start looking up for me soon would really love to get into my own place soon.  Thank you very much.

 Thank-you so much for any help that I may receive.  My family is going through some financial problems right now and we will not have any money for Christmas this year.

 I have been unable to find work yet so we are struggling this year. Thank you for your help, I appreciate it.

 I was wondering how to sign my children up for Christmas. Times are really hard right now. I don’t like to ask for help but my husband is really sick and can’t keep a full time job. So if you know were I could get any help for Christmas please let me know.

 My husband and I really appreciate that there are generous people willing to help others especially at Christmas time.

 thank you soo much for the gifts, they really helped out this year. I thought this was going to be a bad Christmas for my kids but it turned out to be a good one, thank you again for all that you do.

 Thank you for all the hard work you and the congregation of your church does every year making Christmas for area families.

 Merry Christmas, and thank you for what you all do for everyone!!!  God bless you all and keep you safe.”

For all of you “Angels” who will make Christmas a little brighter for an angel child, the Samaritans heartily thank you.  We had a total of 289 Christmas angels this year in 140 families.  Of those 289 children, our parish provided gifts for 177 of them.  We thank the Presbyterian Church of Conneaut Lake, High Street Presbyterian Church, North Shenango Presbyterian Church, Fallowfield UM Church, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the Crawford County Office of Assistance and the Samaritans for also providing gifts for our angels.  In addition, the Hartstown Presbyterian Church’s youth group raised $500 to purchase extra gifts for older children; the Trinity UM Church donated over 50 blankets; Conneaut High School collected boxes and boxes of new & used toys, socks, books & clothing; Conneaut Lake Area Elementary School collected hats, gloves & mittens; Sis Lane collected socks from all over the county; OLQA elementary religious education program children brought in new and used toys; Alice Schafer Elementary School donated boxes of new socks.  We had tables and tables of extra items that families could add to their bags of gifts.  Many volunteers helped to make this event possible.  They include: Theresa, Ken, Rebecca, Amanda, Nicholas, Adam & Jacob Novosel, Margaret & Joe Staahl, Courtney Hild, Roberta Bullock, Betsy Sperry, Pat Gilfoyle,Nancy& Walter August, Monica & Larry Addison, Dee Litke, Barb Irwin, Marilyn Reilly, Jane Harmon, Dolly Werner, Susan Osborn, Bonnie Morini, Tim & Pat Kaider.  Many, many thanks to all who made this program such a success. The Samaritans would also like to especially thank Father Steve for his enthusiastic continued support of all our programs.   May God bless all of you.

This past week the Samaritans received a check from the Erie diocese for $390.40 for the donations from the Rice Bowl program.  Thank you to all the many parishioners who participated in this program.

Christmas
Wonderland

Come join us the week of Nov. 7th-14th
as we turn our sorting room (the garage) into a wonderland of Christmas decorations for your home or tree –all at affordable prices.

Christmas Wonderland hours:

Monday, Nov. 7th & 14th
9 am until 7:30 pm
Tuesday, Nov. 8th
9 am until noon
Thursday, Nov. 10th
9 am until 6 pm

     The Altar Rosary Society is creating a scrapbook that will include the past to the present.  If you have any ARS pictures, memorabila, and memories, plus unneeded scrapbooking materials and/or time you would be willing to donate to this project, contact Mary Anne Shay at 382-8402.  Anything regarding OLQA’s ARS would be appreciated.

Dear OLQA,

Our Lady Queen of the Americas church has recently established a Facebook page for our parish community to connect and share stories, links, photos, and memories.  If you have a Facebook account, please find us here, and feel free to use this ubiquitous social networking tool to connect with fellow parishioners!  Additionally, please don’t forget that anyone is able to share and post comments on our very own OLQA website that you’re reading now – we like to use the internet as a two-way communications medium for our parish community.  We have some other exciting new technical developments in the works, so please stay tuned!  If I can be of any assistance, or for website suggestions, please don’t hesitate to email me at garrettmiller@gmail.com !

-Garrett

A very big THANK YOU to all who worked so hard to make our dinner a success on the 7th.  We sold out of dinners around 5:30!  We served 1044 dinners during the afternoon!  That breaks our records!  We are very grateful to all those who participated and helped in any way.  And a very special thank you to DAVE AND MARY BETH JACOBS who once again spearheaded the dinner.  God bless you all!

Our ANNUAL ROAST BEEF/CHICKEN DINNER will be held on SUNDAY, AUGUST 7th, from 11:30 until 6:00.  You may eat in, take out, or even DRIVE THRU to order and pick up your dinners.  The cost is $8.50 and $4.00 for children 12 or under.  Meat, mashed potato, vegetable, rolls and butter, dirnk, and choice of fruit pies!  There are a number of theme baskets to be raffled off at the dinner – Mickey Mouse, Paula Deen Cookware, Golfing, Coffee-maker, gas grill, $150 gas card.  Instant Bingo and a 50-50 throughout the day.  Be sure to be there are share a wonderful time together with friends and parishioners.