Habitat for Humanity of Shawnee, OK

A regular Wednesday night fellowship dinner was turned into a Habitat fund-raiser at University Baptist Church in early December. Some members brought chili with varying degrees of heat while others furnished crackers, beans, cheese, chips, and desserts. People donated money for the meal, raising $500 which will pay for the insulation for a new house.

Marguerite Guinn and the Prepared Meal committee furnished the organizational power behind this event. For help in setting up such a dinner at your church, call Marguerite at the Habitat number: 214-0434.

NUMBER 1: For a number of years now a group of volunteers have made the "beanies" that OBU freshmen wear when school begins in the fall and OBU "pays" Habitat for Humanity of Shawnee for doing this. If you are interested in helping with this project, bring your sewing machine and iron (if you have them) and come to University Baptist Church at any of the following times to help with this great fund-raising opportunity.

Each Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 PM beginning on June 18 and going through July 30
Two Saturdays from 9:00 to 11:30 AM on June 21 and July 12.

For more information on this project, contact Jamie Barrick at tjbarrick@aol.com or 273-2062 (home) or 273-7810 (work)

NUMBER 2: Each year OBU's Division of Music and St. Gregory's Mabee Wellness Center hold charity bike races and running events. They are joining forces September 27 and 28, 2008 to co-sponsor a weekend of bicycle tours, running events and Oklahoma's only officially-sanctioned bicycle stage race - the proceeds of which will benefit Habitat for Humanity of Shawnee! We will need volunteers to help stage these events and participants to make them successful.

If you are interested in helping with this event in any way, contact Thresa Swadley or Jim Vernon at 878-2305 or music@okbu.edu for more information.