*San Antonio News
January Update:
Chicktime San Antonio kicked the new year off right with a fitness workshop with the teen girls at Boysville, Inc. Mary Coronado, certified fitness instructor, led a yoga and Pilates class. We learned how to warm up before exercising, the proper way to breathe, and how to stretch. We practiced various yoga poses and did a few Pilates moves. After exercising, we talked about how eating the right foods was important. We offered a “Build Your Own Snack Mix” bar with SkinnyPop popcorn, pretzels, Cheez-It crackers, Honey Nut Chex, Cinnamon Life cereal, almonds, dried cranberries, and chocolate chips. The girls were able to make a bowl of their own mix and also made a bag to take home for later. Fun was had by all and everyone walked away feeling rejuvenated and ready to take on 2025!
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What better to do on an October morning than hang out with the teen girls at Boysville and make friendship bracelets.
Thank you Denise Jacks for leading this activity! The girls loved it. It’s like therapy to just sit and focus on threading beads. If this looks like fun to you, come volunteer with us!
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Move over Giada, we have some new celebrity chefs in the making! Kelly Hoog lead a cooking class where the teens at Boysville learned how to make chicken fettuccine Alfredo, scrumptious garlic cheese bread and an Italian salad.
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They learned proper knife handling skills as well as other cooking tips and tricks. The best part was getting to sit down and have lunch together sampling the delicious meal they prepared. Kelly also brought some heavenly fudge brownies and confetti cookies for dessert. In addition to learning great life skills, the girls had a fun time. Thank you to all of our fabulous volunteers that showed up to help us be a blessing to the girls at Boysville.
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It was a spooktacular Saturday at Boysville as we made a Halloween themed meal. We started off with dessert stations where we made strawberry ghosts (white chocolate dipped strawberries with faces made out of mini chocolate chips) and cupcakes topped with witches hats (Oreos,frosting, Hershey’s Kisses, and sprinkles). After dessert was prepared , we made mummy dogs (hotdogs wrapped in crescent roll strips). While those were baking, the girls assembled Jack o’ Lantern veggie trays.
We then enjoyed the fruits of our labor and dined together while catching up on the latest happenings at school and weekend plans. Now the girls know how to create a simple Halloween party meal. A big thanks goes out to our awesome volunteers !
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The girls decoupaged clear glass vases with tissue paper and made tissue paper flowers on Pipe cleaner stems. They were given plastic card sticks to place a card that they were asked to hand write to theirselves! Notes like I’m worthy, I matter …
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Our judge was Boysville’s Activity Specialist- “Mr. Frank”! He had a tough job but we believe he was adequately paid in cupcakes for his time! 
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We are so grateful that Boysville has reopened their campus to volunteers! What a fun morning we had today reuniting with old friends and making new ones as we played bingo and ate some delicious pastries. Thank you to the ladies of the Campanas neighborhood for providing the awesome bingo prizes and sweet treats. We had such a good time and feel so blessed to have the opportunity to serve the teens at Boysville once again. Thank you Lord for keeping us all safe over the last year so that we can continue out mission. And, we ask that you continue to watch over the kids and staff at Boysville and shower them with love and blessings.
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Thank you March workshop leader, Mari Alexander, for creating such a beautiful hand lettering workshop, for the teen girls who live at the Freeman and Ridgeway cottages at Boysville.
Extra thanks to Stacey Pratorius for donating this months snacks and drinks.
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percent sure the girls are going to feel the Valentine 
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Today was a good day. Chicktime San Antonio dropped off Christmas presents and a lot of them!! Every gift on the Christmas gift wish list for all the girls who live at the two cottages Chicktime San Antonio serves was purchased! How did this happen? Because we have the most loving and caring volunteers who said YES!! Yes to making sure the girls who can’t live safely in their own home will be showered with love !!
Merry Christmas Chicktime San Antonio!
Thank you for your generous hearts. We are so humbled.
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Thanksgiving holiday….thanks to our November workshop leaders,
and Lainey Olsen!
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June 2020 drop-off workshop was a success! Chicktime San Antonio Leadership team dropped off two crates full of fruit and cucumbers, tajin spice bottles, watermelon knives, fruit scrubbers and melon-ballers and cups. The crates were beautifully put together with genuinue love from our AMAZING workshop leaders, The Maradiaga Family!
They wrote cards out about fruit and vegetable cleaning and care and now the two cottages that Chicktime San Antonio serves know how to make the best fruit cups ever!
These two beautiful high school graduates are each getting a 50 dollar amazon gift card from Chicktime San Antonio! They have been part of our monthly workshops for a very long time and we are so happy and proud of them!
Thank you to our volunteers who buy Chicktime t-shirts and contribute to our petty cash fund for special occasions like this!
We will soon be collecting visa gift cards to purchase Christmas gifts for the girls! We start early so we can go bold!! If you are in a store and want to help… grab one and message us and we can tell you where to send it!
Be blessed!
Chicktime San Antonio continues to show love from a distance by sending this fun cupcake cookbook to the two cottages where “our” girls live….
We know they love to cook and bake so we can’t wait to hear about the yummy treats they are going to create over these quarantine days!!
#unstoppablelove
The Quarintine will not stop us from having a workshop this month thanks to workshop leader, Stacey Pratorius! Stacey was originally signed up to lead this months workshop and when she found out volunteers would still not be able to come to the Boysville campus she decided to do the next best thing…. and taped her workshop from home. The link was sent to Boysville who will share it with the girls. She also purchased the cottages smoothie makers, gave them smoothie recipes and a gift card to purchase groceries to make their own smoothies. How blessed we are with wonderful women like Stacey who support Chicktime and our mission and who love our girls at Boysville.
Healing the nation one workshop at a time!
The Leadership team on behalf of Chicktime San Antonio has been trying to send “our” girls something to do every week or so while on quarantine! First was the bracelet making kits we shared pics with you early this month. Since then we’ve sent board games, hand lettering kit, and garden seeds!
Sending love during this difficult and perhaps lonely time!! Thank you for always supporting efforts like this when you contribute to special projects or purchase Chicktime T-shirts! We know for a fact that the girls feel our love!!
From Boysville….
All of us were a little bummed that we couldn’t see our Chicktime San Antonio friends for a couple of months with the current situation. Little did we know, they would still be thinking of our girls and send them a little care package via Amazon! Thank you for the fun crafts ladies! We love y’all!
Chicktime San Antonio sent these jewelry making kits from Amazon to the two cottages at Boysville we serve at our workshops. We hope it will fill some time while the girls are home from school.
If you would like to do something similar please reach out to us and we can offer suggestions and tell you where to send it it!
Email annettegoodson@sbcglobal.net
All our love,
Annette, Donnette and Letty
February Update:
Our annual February Chicktime workshop ~ Cooking with Kelly~ was as always… yummy! Every year, Kelly Hoog, volunteers to lead our February workshop as a birthday present to herself!
The teen girls benefit from her birthday present by learning something new to cook and get to EAT what they prepared! The menu this year was Chicken and Linguini Alfredo and Swiss Chocolate Squares for dessert.
After the meal was prepared, we circled up to bless the food and our time together and then broke bread around a set table. Our conversation was real and intimate.
We laughed and cried and left with both tummies and hearts full!
#happybirthdaykelly
#chicktime
#foodforthesoul
January Update:
Chicktime San Antonio’s January 2020 workshop was all kind of WOW!!
Thank you to our workshop leader, Lora Williams, managing leader of our sister chapter, Chicktime San Marcos, for traveling to lead our first workshop of the year.
Thank you for bringing laughter, but also truth and hope in your skit via your character ” Sally Roe” to the teen girls at Boysville that we are blessed to spend time with every month. We loved the “Law and Order” theme of the skit using volunteers as the judge(God) and prosecuting attorney (world) to hear the case of young Sally Roe giving up on life because of all the bad decisions she made and hard times she had to endure…. but using the girls to be the Jurors and concluding that if God can forgive they can forgive too was just the very reason why we show up month to month!
These broken, but beautiful girls need to hear the very message that you intentionally shared with them! God loves you NO matter what!!
Thank you for the special yard game too. We believe giving the girls 4 different pieces of colored yard to represent broken relationships, experiences ( good and bad), things we can’t forgive about ourselves, and our relationship with God to form a web ( representing our life without God) was such a powerful visual. A visual of what our life looks like when we don’t have God in our life to give us clarity to get through the web of life.
The visual was stronger when volunteers cut the web~ piece by piece~ to make room for the white yarn (God) to help us find the clarity and peace found only in HIM. Thank you for wrapping up our time together by sharing your testimony that paralleled “Sally Roe’s” life. The journey that started much like the girls who live at Boysville, but that made it through the “web” because of Jesus Christ and is living out HIS purpose in a very courageous way! Thank you for singing and praying with the girls too.
We were also blessed with yummy snacks and new volunteers!
An all and all perfect Chickitme workshop!
Join us next month for cooking with Kelly!
December Update:
Have you ever been somewhere or experienced something that simply takes your breath away? Well that is exactly what happened to the Chicktime San Antonio Volunteers that came out to our December gathering.
Every year we are invited to our Charity Parter, Boysville Children’s Home Christmas Pageant. We are invited because it is their way to thank all of their volunteers collectively ~to include Chicktime San Antonio! This year as expected, the Pageant was so special. Each cottage performed a song, a skit, or played an instrument for the crowd. We may be a little bias, but we believe the cottage where “our girls” live was the best performance of the afternoon. Before “our girls” performed, they grabbed a microphone and thanked Boysville for giving them a place to live and caring for them when no one else would. Not a dry eye in the room and I’m pretty sure our hearts skipped a beat! Then the girls did a liturgical dance to Laura Dangle’s hit Christian Contemporary song, ~ You Say! If you have never heard the words please listen to them today and breathe them in for yourself and pray with us that the girls etch every word of the song in their heart.
The Administration, staff, and especilly children put so much time and love into the pageant that it is truly magical. It is our hope that one year you will join us and we promise you will leave there and know why there is Chicktime!
After the pageant, we continued with tradition and went to the girls cottage/home where the houseparents and girls treated us to tamales, fruit, veggie tray and spinach dip, and other chips and dips! It is such an honor to be invited to their home and break bread with them in such an intimate way. Our monthly workshops and activities are beautiful and meaningful, but this sacred and special time allows us to see the girls in a different way and us to them as well. After we ate and visited, we sat around their Christmas tree and played Santa. Because of very generous donations from some of our wonderful Chicktime Volunteers, we were able to buy the girls some special gifts on their wish lists. Their excitement and gratitude was overwhelming and a few times the girls were even taken back with tears which of course made us cry! We were also able to give the houseparents, relief houseparent, volunteer coordinator, and recreational specialist gift cards for their amazing work they do at Boysville and making our partnership with them so easy!
We are so grateful for each of you who made the gift exchange possible. We are also grateful for those of you who showed up and spent the afternoon with us. We are 100 percent sure that we are investing in the life of these girls and because of Chicktime they will always know they have women who are routing for them and will always know they matter!
Joyfully and With Lots of Love,
Annette, Donnette, Letty
Chicktime San Antonio Leadership Team
#merrychristmas
#bethechange
#stopthecycleofabuse
November Update:
Our November workshop focused on gratitude. The girls decorated chalkboards with paint, antique buttons and permanent markers. We asked them to make the statement
“I am grateful for”….. permanent on the chalkboard with either paint or permeant marker and everyday with chalk change what they are grateful for!
As the girls were doing this activity we went around the room to share what each of us is grateful for and helped the girls realize that even in the darkest times there is always a reason to be grateful.
This activity spilled over to writing grateful cards to special people who have impacted us. The girls really liked this activity and it seemed therapeutic and a way to show how grateful and thankful they are to the people who have loved and encouraged them along way. We had a blessing mix bar where the girls grabbed a plastic goodie bag and scooped in various ingredients that together made the mix. They used a precut ribbon to tie the bag shut with instructions on what each ingredient meant. The girls made one for themselves and one to share with someone special.
Fresh fruit with chocolate dipping sauce and cookies filled our tummies and was the perfect Saturday workshop treat. We circled up and held hands for our closing prayer…a workshop tradition!
Chicktime San Antonio remains grateful for the opportunity to serve at Boysville and be part of the journey in the teen girls who live there.
Happy Thanksgiving to all our volunteers who we are also VERY grateful for!
October Update:
Never think what you have to offer is insignificant. There will always be someone out there who needs what you have to give. This statement seems always to ring true at our Chicktime workshops and it wasn’t any different at this months event!!
Our workshop leader, Tara Johnson, showed the girls how to sew their own pillowcases!
Her passion for sewing was so evident as she led the workshop, but the love and grace she extended the girls by showing up with supplies to fill up a Saturday morning will for ever be etched in their hearts… and now every night before they go to bed they can lay their head on a pillow case they made at Chicktime and forever be reminded how much they are loved!!
Thank you to our volunteers who showed up with sewing machines and with loving hearts. We know your time is valuable and we are so grateful you believe in the mission of Chicktime!
It is in moments like this that God’s Love in us can change the world. May we continue to ask God to reveal himself to us and form us for a life of service.
Special thanks to Tara for also gifting each of the girls teen bibles and goats milk soap !! What a beautiful treat for them!!
We hope to see you next month!
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#3rdsaturday
#boysville
September Update:
What a wonderful morning we had sharing fun and laughter as the girls proudly competed in Minute to Win It games.
Starting with face the cookie, balloon juggling, cup stacking and ending with water balloon toss and water relays, both the girls and volunteers cheered on and played to win king-sized candy.
As we usually do, we closed our time with snacks and prayer, looking forward already to our next time together. Thanks to our wonderful volunteers for leading and playing games.
Join us on October 19th for our next Chicktime actiivty.
June Update:
Every month, Chicktime San Antonio, has the opportunity to plant seeds of hope and love to the teen girls who live at Boysville. How fitting that this months workshop activity was painting flower pots and planting seeds in hopes they will grow and bloom into something beautiful, strong, and very special flowers.
Chicktime Co-Leader, Letty Rodella and workshop leader, Betty Fernandez, read a poem to the girls during the paint session, called The Best Flower in the Garden~ A tale about the flowers that become something special when they came together in a bouquet.
The girls made individual banana pudding cups for their snack and feasted on watermelon and strawberries!
One of the best things about our monthly time together is our traditional circle prayer to end each workshop. Watching the girls hold hands and wait for us to pray with them is honestly God using our chapter to build HIS kingdom here on earth. Today, one of our girls closed us out in prayer. God is sooooooooooooo good!
Thank you Betty for always saying YES!! to leading a Chicktime Workshop! Year after year we can always count on you!!
April Update:
Today six Chicktime San Antonio volunteers gathered in a common gymnasium and transformed it to a safe, encouraging and fun space.
Eleven girls who come from very broken places were greeted with open and loving arms and hearts!
Merrilee Berger, (one of Chicktime Bulverde’s chapter leaders) was our workshop leader and taught us how to decorate t-shirts ( graffiti style) with stencils, permanent markers and rubbing alcohol.
Our time together allowed us to visit, listen/sing Contemporary Christian music, talk about the real reason of the Easter Season, and eat!!
Chicktime San Antonio is determined to help these beautiful girls accept the unbelievable simple exchange of grace. Thats why we show up month after month. We want them to know HIS peace.
#heisrisen
#hosanna
#tombisempty
Matthew 18:20
For where two or three are gathered together as my followers, I am among them.
March Update:
Chicktime San Antonio 2019 March Workshop was a busy one indeed! We originally had another activity planned that works best for a bigger crowd. When we checked in with our charity partner, Boysville, at the beginning of the week we were told we would only have 3 or 4 girls because of Spring Break. We asked our workshop leaders to come back later in the year to save their special activity when it would be more impactful for the girls. The leadership team took over and planned three craft rotations for the girls to spend their morning working on.
At our first rotation, the girls made a hanging cross out of clothespins. These turned out so beautiful.
They will each get to hang their cross near their own bed.
At our second rotation, the girls made a prayer box. They used scrapbook paper and mod-podge to decorate cross boxes.
The girls were told to grab a piece of paper and write their prayer on it and put it in the box and trust God to work on their behalf.
At the third rotation, the girls made sugar scrubs made with essential oils. They were so excited to make these and to learn about the uses for essential oils. We had popcorn and rice crispy treats for a snack and just enjoyed our time together.
As it turned out, we had 9 girls and a perfect morning. At the end of every workshop we gather in a circle and hold hands and pray. Today was no different. We always open it up for anyone to pray hoping that on any given Chicktime Saturday one of the girls would volunteer! This morning was that day. Such a sweet and gracious prayer led by one of the teens. We can never doubt the impact that our monthly workshops have on these precious girls. We are decorating t-shirts next month. Join us. We will be meeting the second Saturday in April due to the Easter Holiday.
February Update:
What a beautiful and tasty morning we had today! Thanks to Kelly and Kat for bringing their passion to bake.
The girls didn’t hesitate at all to roll up their sleeves, flour up, mix, knead and spread to make cinnamon rolls from scratch.
As they patiently waited first for the yeast to rise, and then for the rolls to bake, they shared laughs as they acted out while playing ‘heads up’.
It warmed our ♥️ when the girls asked to pray before savoring their creation, and when they all asked for Chicktime shirts which they promise to wear on Chicktime Saturdays. We always leave with our spiritual tanks fuller, our hearts overflowing and today our tummies full and happy with an extra helping of cinnamon and sugar!
January Update:
Wow! Wow! Wow! Our January 2019 workshop leader, (Author and Motivational Speaker), Lora Williams, brought down the house at Boysville today!
Lora through skits and open discussion and reflection exercises had us breaking chains that we hold onto and learning to claim who God says we are! The girls learned that forgiveness is for us not the person who hurt us! Powerful! They also learned that there is NO experience in our life that decreases our value and that for every negative word that was ever told to us we can turn it around make it a positive one. Our mirror isn’t broken ladies…it just needs to be cleaned off! We are beautiful and worth it! She had us listen to ~Who You Are: A Message to All Women…Double Powerful! Click the link! Not once but twice! Listen to it three times!! Hear the message and plant it on your heart!
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We closed in a circle prayer and had snacks and fellowship.
Praising God that Chicktime San Antonio continues to make a difference in 2019!
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November Update:
We are thankful for…
•Our workshop leaders–Morgan Parker & Eva Irwine
•Our wonderful volunteers who show up every month to help with our workshops
•Boysville for providing a stable and loving home to kids in need
•All of the teen girls at Boysville that we get to spend time with every month. They are truly a blessing!
Today we worked on a craft…
to get us in the Christmas spirit.
We also played the Skittles gratitude game…
And we ate some Blessings Snack Mix.
October Update:
Chicktime San Antonio celebrated Halloween ???? with the beautiful teen girls at Boysville!
We divided the girls into three teams with the challenge of each team creating a Mummy out of toilet paper but also being creative and having a theme to their mummy. After a set time each team presented their mummy to the judges and pled their case why their Mummy should win the contest! The girls were pretty creative and competitive!
Between Ninja bride thing with a horn of awesomeness ,Mummy bride and the Dummy mummy—only woman pharaoh … the judges had a tough decision! In the end all participants got Carmel coated popcorn balls!????
Next we played Halloween ???? Pictionary! Wow! The girls could really draw! What a fun game engaging the girls in drawing, guessing, and laughing!
We had Halloween orange themed snacks like Cheeto puffs, cuties, Oreos with orange filling, cupcakes with Halloween icing and sprinkles and Orange Drink!
Then in addition to our snack time, we made our own Carmel apples ????!
Then in addition to our snack time, we made our own Carmel apples ????! We closed our time together how we end every Chicktime Saturday morning- in a circle prayer! It’s a beautiful thing to be reminded we haven’t prayed yet by the girls when our Chicktime workshop is winding down or to have them fight to hold your hand in our prayer circle! It almost takes your breath away!
The closest to Christ moment at this workshop was two of the “new” girls telling us they were new to Boysville , but not new to Chicktime! They attended Chicktime workshops at another local children’s home they were placed so knew what “the Chicktime Ladies” were all about! So keep praying! Our goal of having a Chicktime Chapter in every group home or shelter across the United States should never be forgotten or sought after! When an abused or hurt child needs love and refuge by ladies that show up in Chicktime Shirts every month and simply play a game or have some Cheetos with them… we are making a difference and we are Kingdom Building here on earth! If anyone would like to know more about starting your own Chicktime Chapter… we would love to tell you how… and as always you are welcome to join our Chapter the 3rd Saturday of every month!
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
-Jane Goodall
August Update:
One of the most beautiful things about Chicktime San Antonio is that we are consistent women in the lives of the teen girls living at Boysville! They know us… they know they can come to our monthly workshops tired, wounded, angry, happy, or just come for the food we serve!
It doesn’t matter! We want to see them and we want to be with them. We want them to know they matter to us!
This morning we gathered with a smaller group than usual to play bingo!
We had prizes that ranged from nail polish, bath soaps, craft supplies and snacks- to a Sonic gift card for the “Black out Bingo” winner! Even the house parents played with us!
We enjoyed tortilla sandwich rolls, chips, a veggie tray and cookies together too!
We ended our time together like we always do- circled up… holding hands… and praying together. These sweet girls need to know above all- God is with them and lives in their heart. It is our wish they see HIM in us!
Please pray for Boysville… the staff and children!
We will be back at Boysville, September 15th for our next workshop. Join us-
June Update:
It may have been a hot summer morning, but we had a cool time playing bunco inside and eating paletas with our friends at Boysville.
Thank you to ATKG CPA’s for sponsoring this event and providing the girls with summer goody bags with sunglasses, sunscreen, candy and Bahama Buck’s gift cards –not to mention the bunco prizes (flip flops, M&M’s and Skittles). It was s fun morning!
May Update:
Another beautiful day at Boysville! We were blessed to have Betty Fernandez lead our workshop.
The girls had a fantastic time channeling their creativity as they painted, stenciled and embellished cosmetic bags and visors.
They also braided some bracelets. It’s always fun to spend time with friends on a Saturday morning and do something fun.
What are you waiting for? Join us next month!
April Update:
Today we gathered as we do every month at Boysville to lead an activity with the teen girls who live there. We don’t ever know what the mood or dynamics will be of the girls that come to us on a given Chicktime Saturday~ they are not only teenagers, but teenagers who for whatever reason can’t live safely in their own home. We can only imagine that they feel some sort of hopelessness and perhaps have broken hearts about what has led them to live at Boysville. Before the girls …came to us today, we gathered in prayer with the volunteers to ask God to bless our time and help the girls see HIM in us and by the tone of the workshop HE did just that. The girls came with open hearts and smiles and were ever so engaging in our activity and conversation. Workshop leader, Rosario Barrios, taught us how to make prayer bracelets. Learning how to make the bracelets initially takes a little bit of determination and practice, but once the girls learned how to make the special knots they were so proficient and proud! Rosario explanined to the girls that in the Catholic faith, these bracelets can be used like Rosaries to pray a specific prayer like the Hail Mary. The bracelets, however, are to help all Christians be faithful to a prayer life. Wearing the bracelets help us to remember to just be still and pray. They can help us be more focused in prayer by touching each knot and praying for someone specifically or in gratitude about someone/something. The lesson was that prayer is crucial in our relationship with our Savior and brings us closer to HIM.
What we can tell you about our time with these beautiful children of God is that if we don’t show and tell them about having a life of grace and abundance, who will? Bringing hope and healing to a child who has none is part of the mission of Chicktime San Antonio and we are so blessed to have volunteers every month who are not scared of the mission, but embrace it with us! We ended our time together with yummy food and a big group prayer. God is good!
March Update:
Chicktime San Antonio is one of about 50 chapters across the United States! Don’t you just love being part of something so BIG? Each chapter has a charity partner they have matched up with and are committed to showing up once a month to serve with a different activity! As you know, our chapter serves the teen girls at Boysville Children’s Home! Today, a service club from Stevens High School, Service Over Self, lead our activity and provided our snacks! Kickball, fruit, pickles, and Chile powder made for the perfect morning! Imagine a group of teenagers who want nothing more than to serve and on a Saturday morning! Wow!!
We were blessed with lots of volunteers who came out -( one on her college spring break and a few more on their high school break) to share the morning and play with us! Oh! Chapter co-leader,Annette Goodsonn kicked in the winning run!
Psalm 25: 4-5
“Show me your ways, O Lord, Guide me in your truth and teach me.”
February Update:
1 Corinthians 13:13 …and the greatest of these things is love …
Our February workshop was so many things… fun, busy, and oh so YUMMY!
Our monthly workshop leader “Mrs. Kelly” ( and long time volunteer with Chicktime San Antonio) taught the girls how to make homemade pizza 
?, ( dough AND Sauce) and homemade chocolate squares for dessert! It happened to be her birthday so Chicktime San Antonio made our own special dessert in her honor and sang happy birthday to her! Every… year when we are searching for workshop leaders to take on a month to lead she always says YES! We are so grateful!
Special thanks to the service club- SOS( service over self) from Stevens High School who came out to serve alongside with us! Such a beautiful group of girls with HUGE hearts 
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Chicktime San Antonio is committed to serving the teen girls at Boysville the 3rd Saturday of every month for years to come! We pray you will come feel the joy and AMORE we have found when we are there!
All our love,
Letty, Donnette, & Annette
Chicktime San Antonio Leadership Team
January Update:
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters and create many ripples “- Mother Teresa
Thank you to the volunteers who showed up this morning to serve the teen girls at Boysville with Chicktime San Antonio!
Special thanks to Tara Chapman Johnson for being our workshop leader and showing the girls how to make their own gratitude journals!
These beautiful girls who cannot live safely in their own home were the recipients today of women who casted stones of love, nurturance, and grace!!!! What wonderful ripples they made in the lives of the teen girls living at Boysville! Next month we will be making homemade ?! God is good!
December Update:
Beautiful Sunday afternoon spent at Boysville attending their annual Christmas Pagent. Not a dry eye in the room as the children told the Christmas story through drama and song! Our charity partner, Boysville, has a Christmas Pagent every year and invites all the volunteers who help them throughout the year as a “thank- you” for serving there and Chicktime San Antonio was honored to attend. After the pagent, Chicktime San Antonio, was invited back to one of the cottages where our girls who attend our workshops live for refreshments (look at the spread they had for us) and our own intimate Christmas party! Our chapter came with bags full of gifts ( because of VERY generous and loving contributors to our Chapter who helped us fill all the wishes on the girls lists) and were blessed to watch the girls open the gifts one by one and feeling the love we have for them! We are excited for 2018 and all the wonderful workshops already lined up to share with the teen girls we serve at Boysville! We hope you can join us one month!
November Update:
Chicktime San Antonio was jammed packed this morning with crafts, snacks and games thanks to our fabulous workshop leader, Jeanne Schaefer! Each of the girls created their own Thanksgiving centerpiece using Mod Podge, small glass bottles, and tissue paper! They all turned out so beautiful! They made “oreo” turkeys with icing, redhot candies, whoppers, candy corn and peanut butter cups! Can we get a YUM! YUM! After that Jeanne had Five( yes, I said Five) minute to win it games…! The first game was to see who could eat a footlong fruit rollup the fastest hanging out of their mouth and hands behind their back! One of the house parents almost won! The second game was “Cookie Face”! Each girl placed an oreo on their forehead and had to work it down only using their face muscles to get it to thier mouths! The third game was “Suck It Up” using a straw to suck m&m’s from a plate to a cup tyring to see who can get the most in a minute! The fourth game they played was “Snowball Toss” where one girl tossed mini marshmellows in a cup her partner was holding. The last game was ” balloon tennis” using partners to see how many hits each team could get to in a minute! So much FUN!! Jeanne prepared blessing mix bags for each of the girls and explained what each item in the bag represented. She made enough for the girls to take one to give to someone special in thier life and Chicktime was able to leave a bag full for the staff at Boysville to say thank you for caring for all the precious children who are placed in this incredible Children’s Home. We ended our time in a group circle letting the girls know how much we love them and as always we prayed with them!
If you can help us “sponsor” some girls for Christmas and help us fill their wish lists please let us know! We want nothing more than the girls we come to visit each month to know Christmas!
All our love,
Chicktime San Antonio
September Update:
Chicktime San Antonio discovered the awesomeness of canned biscuts/canned dough!
Our cooking workshop had three stations and we divided the Boysville girls ups to work a station. Measuring, zesting, mixing, spreading….you name it~ They did it!!
We made Orange rolls, Monkey Bread, and “Chicktime” Mini-Cinnis! And you probably guessed it…the best part of the morning was sampling all three!!
Our Chicktime mornings are always so humbling~ especially when we have just the right amount of volunteers to help us carry out our workshops!
Come help us host a cupcake walk next month at Boysville’s Fall Festival! It’s going to be so fun!
August Update:
What better way to spend a Saturday morning than spending volunteering and mentoring teen girls at Boysville Children’s Home.
The volunteers and kids got a great Yoga workout led by Mary Coronado from GFit Studio….
We had such a great time exercising and just plain being silly!
Join us next month and come spread and feel the joy yourself!
July Update:
Chicktime San Antonio had such a special summer evening hanging out with the girls who live at Boysville, Inc.!
We made ice cream sundaes and played BINGO!
And I mean all types of bingo games like T ( for Texas), regular bingo, four corners, blackout, and stand up/sit down ! Lots of girls on the edge of their seats wanting to yell Bingo, but mostly just happy that the ladies from Chicktime were back! Prizes ranged from makeup, bath and body goodies to nail supplies, devotional books and chocolate!
As always we ended our time together in a large circle prayer giving thanks for our volunteers, the girls who live at Boysville and the staff that help raise them! We pray these beautiful girls see HIM in us! Join us next month! Our August workshop will be YOGA!
Psalm 93:3
“Declare HIS glory among the nations, HIS wonders among all peoples.”
June Update:
Chicktime June at Boysville Children’s Home was over the top FUN thanks to the ladies from Padre Pio Catholic Church!
They took our workshop outdoors for summer time “Minute to Win It Games”!
We aren’t sure we’ve ever seen the girls this relaxed and laugh so much and so hard!
We played games like stack the cups, knock the cups over with a rubber band and move the m & m’s with a straw!
Egg toss, catch the cheerio’s in a cup head band, and pass the water cup relay!!
The girls even went foot-fishing for marbles!!
We shared popsicles , watermelon , and great conversation with the girls about summer plans!
We ended our time together like we always do… by circling up and holding hands and praying with each other and for each other!
“Be strong and take heart, all who hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24
Join us next month as we make summer visors!!
May Update:
These beautiful Chicktime San Antonio volunteers were planting seeds in more ways than one! Not only did they plant the seed of love and nurturance with the teen girls at Boysville by being present with them, but they also helped them build their own fairy garden~ seeds and all!
The volunteers visited, listened and encouraged….
Love bloomed everywhere in that room!
Two special teen girls who have been coming to Chicktime since we started coming to Boysville will graduate at the end of this month and received a “college survival kit” from Chicktime San Antonio, too!
The craft was time consuming so the refreshments were a nice touch!
Thank you Seli Compton for being our awesome monthly workshop leader and for being one of the faithful volunteers for the 7 years we have been around!!
To God be the glory!!! For HE has done great things with our ministry!
JUNE NEWS
Getting Crafty at Seton Home
Chicktime San Antonio took crafts to a whole other level thanks to our awesome monthly leader, Shannan Pfeifer! On May 18th we spent a wonderful afternoon with the teen moms at Seton Home. Four crafts stations were set up for the girls to rotate through at their own pace. From creating personal bulletin boards with fabric to decorating cards, glass jars and clothes pins to hang art work or pictures from, the girls had many choices and were excited to have the opportunity to spruce up their rooms with homemade crafts.
Our time at Seton Home was also incredibly blessed with all the volunteers who showed up to help babysit the children of the teen moms! We had newborns to rambunctious toddlers who brought joy to us as we sang, rocked, and played outdoors with them.
As always, we are so grateful for those of you who continue to support this ministry!
Annette, Diane, and Donnette
Chicktime San Antonio Chapter Leaders
I love others because you first loved me. Ephesians 5:2
May News
Two Chicktime Events in April!
Bunco at Seton Home
On Saturday, April 6th, our Chicktime volunteers headed to Seton Home to spend time with the teenage girls there. Seton is a home for pregnant and parenting teens. So, as you can imagine, these girls have stresses that few of us can imagine. Getting a couple of hours to have fun and take their minds off of their everyday worries is a luxury to them. We had a great time playing Bunco. Some of the girls were not real enthusiastic in the beginning. After they picked up on the rules and started to feel more comfortable with us, they really started to warm up. Some told us all about the graduation pictures they had taken earlier that morning or about their plans for the weekend. And, they proudly showed us pictures of their little ones. In the end, it felt like we made new friends. And, the girls liked playing Bunco so much that they asked if they could keep some dice to play again later!
Many of our volunteers spent time rocking babies and playing with the toddlers on the playground. Some of us have forgotten how much energy it takes to keep up with them! So, we are especially thankful for the teens that come out to volunteer.
Thank you to all of the volunteers that showed up to spend time with the girls and to all those that helped babysit. We especially appreciate the first time volunteers and hope you will join us again in the future.
Fiesta Event for St. PJ’s
Seli Compton out did herself yet another year in hosting Chicktime Fiesta! Organizing food booths, crafts and games for the teen girls at St. PJ’s to enjoy and experience a San Antonio tradition! Sadly, a last-minute campus emergency prohibited the girls from attending the event. With lots of food already prepared, Chicktime volunteers joined together in fellowship as we prayed for the girls who missed out on this awesome party.
Special thanks goes to the following volunteers who prepared food booths from around the world (and Texas)!
China – Monica Hernandez
Mexico – Staci Hernandez
Texas – Becky Fralix
France – Lu Nell Garza
Poland – Stephanie Parker
Italy – AnneLee McDonald
Desserts – Donnette Tyler and friends
Beverage – Diane Godwin
We also want to thank Michelle Kelly for sharing her talent for crafting and Sharkey’s Salon for donations to craft tables!
Blessings,
Annette, Diane, & Donnette
Your light must shine before people, so that they will see the good things you do and praise your Father in heaven.
–Matthew 5:16
APRIL NEWS
Due to conflicts with Spring Break, our March activity at Seton Home was pushed back a couple of weeks. It will be held on Saturday, April 6th. We will be playing bunco with the girls. Setup will be at 10:30 and we’ll start playing at 11:00. If you live on the north side of town and would like to carpool or caravan with us, meet at the Taco Cabana on Hwy 281 between Thousand Oaks and Brook Hollow at 9:45. We hope you can join us! RSVP to annettegoodson@sbcglobal.net if you plan to attend.
On Friday, April 26th, we will be holding our annual Fiesta event for the girls at St. PJ’s. We will have foods from around the world, games and music. This will be at Bulverde United Methodist Church. Setup will be at 5:45 PM and we will start the party at 6:30. Seli Compton is coordinating this event. If you would like to bring food for this event, please contact Seli at 210-687-2681 or scompton@alamoassetadvisors.com. We are particularly in need of desserts and donations of new or gently used stuffed animals.
We hope you can join us!
Blessings,
Annette, Diane, & Donnette
How can I repay the Lord for all His goodness to me?
–Psalm 116:12
March News
Making Prayer Blankets
On a beautiful Saturday morning, we gathered at St. PJ’s to make fleece prayer blankets. We had a large group of middle school girls from the St. Padre Pio Catholic Education Program show up to volunteer as part of a nation-wide Youth Serve program. Each volunteer teamed up with a girl from St. PJ’s to cut and tie the fringe on the blankets. All of the girls enjoyed learning a new craft. They attached a prayer card to each completed blanket reading, “This fleece blanket is one I made with love. Each knot is tied with blessings and prayers to God above.” Then, they signed their names on the cards.
The prayer blankets were made for nursing home residents. After leaving St. PJ’s, the girls from St. Padre Pio stopped by Padua Place, a home for retired priests, and delivered some blankets. The residents were all smiles and some blessed the girls. We were particularly happy to visit with now-retired Archbishop Patrick Flores. It filled our hearts to be a part of this amazing day of love and kinship.
We want to thank St. Padre Pio Chatholic Church for sponsoring the supplies and providing volunteers for this event and to Diana Flores & Micky Flores for bringing breakfast.
Upcoming Events
Keep an eye on the website calendar for upcoming events. We will also be emailing you invitations. Also, we are still in need of leaders for a few months. Contact Donnette Tyler at donnette.tyler@gmail.com if you are interested in leading.
Love and blessings,
Donnette, Diane & Annette
I will proclaim your greatness my God and king; I will thank you forever and ever.
Psalm 145:1
February News
Great Start at Seton Home
On January 19th, we held our first ever activity at Seton Home. What an amazing place Seton Home is to provide a caring and nurturing environment for homeless pregnant and/or parenting teens and their children! We had an enjoyable morning getting to know the girls and the staff. We had a fabulous group of volunteers show up to work with the girls to help them make no-sew fleece blankets for themselves or their babies. Some of the girls were a little quiet and shy, while others loved to talk all about what was going on in their life. And, we had a great time rocking babies and playing with the adorable toddlers! We left Seton Home feeling both exhausted and happy.
We want to thank the ladies ACTS group from St. Padre Pio Catholic Church for sponsoring this event. We appreciate all of those that showed up to volunteer and all the people that contributed money or fleece for the project.
We hope you can join us on February 16th when we’re back at St. PJ’s. We will be making fleece blankets again, but this time it will be lap blankets to donate to nursing homes. This will be a Youth Serve event sponsored by the middle school girls Catholic Education Program at St. Padre Pio Church. Diana Flores will be sponsoring the snack—yummy muffins, doughnuts, and fruit. The girls at St. PJ’s love crafts, so this should be a really fun activity.
Finally, we need your help filling our activity calendar for the year. We still have 7 months without leaders and one is coming up in March. So, please prayerfully consider leading a month. If you need ideas on activities, just let us know. Remember that it doesn’t have to be anything too complicated or costly. The main point is to spend time with the girls and let them know that they’re loved.
Month | Location | Leaders | Activity |
January | Seton Home | St. Padre Pio Women’s ACTS | fleece blanket craft |
February | St. PJ’s | Diana Flores & St. Padre Pio middle school girls | lap blankets for nursing homes |
March | Seton Home | open | |
April | St. PJ’s | Seli Compton | 3rd annual Fiesta party |
May | Seton Home | open | |
June | St. PJ’s | open | |
July | Seton Home | open | |
August | St. PJ’s | open | |
September | Seton Home | open | |
October | St. PJ’s | open | |
November | Seton Home | Chicktime leadership | holiday party |
December | St. PJ’s | Chicktime leadership | holiday party |
We wish you a joyful February!
Blessings,
Annette, Diane, & Donnette
Chicktime San Antonio Co-Leaders
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
–Mother Theresa
January News
Joy to the World!
Cute Christmas Treat!
We held our annual Christmas party on Saturday, December 15th. There was excitement and anticipation in the air as the girls from St. PJ’s stepped off the bus at Incredible Pizza. After eating the pizza buffet, they were treated to 2 hours of video games and attractions. They were full of energy as they bounced from game to game having the time of their lives. Before sending them back to St. PJ’s, each received a Chicktime t-shirt and a stocking full of treats including a Chicktime tumbler, socks, lotions, candy and other goodies. They were all so thankful and full of hugs. We enjoyed the time we got to spend with them and find out all about everything that’s happening in their lives and the plans they have for the holidays.
We are so thankful to the women that made monetary contributions to help sponsor this party. We also thank our very special volunteers that donated the stocking full of treats for the girls and took the time to put them together. Our hearts are full of joy knowing there are so many ladies out there that are touched by this ministry enough to share their time, talent, and treasure to help make Chicktime San Antonio the organization that it is today. We are eternally grateful for your support.
January Event
Our first event at Seton Home will take place on Saturday, January 19th. We will meet there at 10:30 and will begin our activity at 11:00. This event is sponsored by the St. Padro Pio Ladies ACTS group. We will be making fleece blankets. We could really use your help with donations of fleece as we will have approximately 30 girls participating. For each blanket, we need 2 coordinating 2-yard pieces of fleece. This is frequently on sale at JoAnn Fabrics and Hobby Lobby. If you are able to donate, please contact Annette at annettegoodson@sbcglobal.net. In addition to helping with the craft that day, we will need volunteers to help with the babies and toddlers so that the girls can have a break and participate in this fun activity. You will receive more details in early January when we send out the invitation for this event.
Holiday Blessings
Somehow, not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart’s possessing returns to you glad.
♥♥♥
We thank you for your love, time, support, and prayers and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Blessings,
Donnette, Diane & Annette
Chicktime San Antonio Co-Leaders
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. (Luke 2:14)
December News
Exciting Things Happening With Chicktime San Antonio!
Chicktime San Antonio is happy to announce that starting in 2013 we will be partnering with Seton Home! After hearing about the great work we do at St. PJ’s, the volunteer coordinator from Seton approached us and asked if we might be able to come in on a regular basis to provide some fun activities for their residents. After touring the facility and learning about the services they provide, we prayed about whether it was the right direction for our organization. We believe that God was leading us to these teens in need and we had to say YES!
Seton Home provides a nurturing home to homeless pregnant and parenting teens who decide to keep and care for their babies. They work to break the cycle of abuse and poverty by providing a caring home, education, and support services necessary to transform the lives of teen mothers and their children. They have a beautiful campus right next to St. PJ’s at 1115 Mission Road. For more information about Seton Home, visit their website at www.setonhomesa.org.
While we get things up and running at Seton Home, we have come to an agreement with them and St. PJ’s that we will alternate activities between the two facilities. If anyone is interested in joining our leadership team to assist us with this, please let us know.
We are so excited to begin our first activity with them in January. These girls truly need our love and attention. We will be working with 30 – 40 girls from ages 12 – 19.
Join us January 19th for our first activity at Seton Home which will be sponsored by the St. Padre Pio Ladies ACTS group. We will be making fleece blankets. If you would like to donate fleece for this project, please send an email to annettegoodson@sbcglobal.net. We will provide more details at a later date.
November Event – Games & Turkeys!
Turkey Treat
Chicktime San Antonio is so thankful for the gifts and talents of all our volunteers and their desire to share them with the teen girls at St. Pj’s! November Chicktime was no different and was such a blessing thanks to the wonderful team of Jeanne Schaefer and Patti Rittiman! These ladies and their daughters, Kylie and Emily, set the tone for the morning with the girls with an upbeat and updated version of “hot potato”! The last one standing of course won a prize out of the prize bucket that was filled with things like candy, fuzzy Christmas socks, and teen magazines! The St. PJ’s girls, mixed with the youth chicks, were divided into two groups to play CRL (Center/Right/Left). This dice game made the girls chant, laugh, get serious, and laugh again until we had a winner from each group who also got to pick a prize from the prize bucket! If that wasn’t enough, our monthly leaders had yet another activity for the girls to help get them in the mood for Thanksgiving! The girls made eatable turkeys out of Oreo cookies, frosting and candy corn! It’s simple things like this craft that seem to bring the girls so much joy! We ended our beautiful morning together by sharing a snack and visiting before we circled up and prayed hand in hand. The girls were each given a gift of a homemade and specially wrapped “thanksgiving trail mix” with a tag on it that identified the things in the bag with a reminder of why we should count our blessings at Thanksgiving.
Chick Volunteers
December Chicktime will be held on December 15th at Incredible Pizza. Thanks to the generous hearts of our volunteers we have enough money to treat the girls to pizza, games, rides and gifts!! Please join us if you can! We will arrive about 10:15 am and stay until 12:45.
It is our desire to get our 2013 Chicktime San Antonio ministry lined up with monthly leaders in the next few weeks. At present, we have January, February, April and December leaders. We welcome repeat leaders and repeat activities! If you have been praying about leading a month please know that the girls appreciate anything and simple usually works best!
All our love,
Annette, Diane, & Donnette
Chicktime San Antonio Chapter leaders
“May my life and my choices bring hope and healing to the frightened, the broken, the hopeless, and the least of these!” ~ Beth Moore
November News
B I N G O!
We had a Halloween-themed party this month at St. PJ’s and had a great time playing bingo with the girls! They enjoyed snacking on chips and queso, fruit, and goldfish while they played and covered their cards with Hershey Kisses. We played many different variations of bingo for some fun prizes such as bath gel, picture frames, Halloween socks, books, and jewelry. Everyone walked away with a prize. We wrapped up with Halloween cupcakes. The joy on their faces warmed our hearts and helped us to know that we were in the right place. Spending time with the girls is as much of a blessing for us as it is for them.
A big “thanks” goes out to our October volunteers—Annie Lutz and Jeanie King. They did a fabulous job and everyone seemed to have a great time! We appreciate all of the volunteers who showed up and thank them for bringing bingo prizes. We even had a volunteer all the way from Sweden—Sara is an exchange student that arrived just 2 days earlier.
Volunteers
We are always looking for volunteers to lead a monthly activity. It doesn’t have to be anything elaborate—just share a craft, hobby, game, or sport that interests you.
Blessings,
Diane, Donnette & Annette
This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad.
Psalms 118:24
Upcoming Events:
November (date TBA) – Thanksgiving themed crafts (hosted by Jeanne & Emily Schaefer)
December 15 – Christmas Party at Incredible Pizza
Note: We are in need of 35 sponsors to donate $30 each to help offset the cost of the Christmas party. If you are able to provide a sponsorship, please contact Donnette at donnette.tyler@gmail.com. Checks should be made payable to “Chicktime San Antonio” and can be mailed to Donnette Tyler at 2727 Montebello, San Antonio, TX 78259.
September/October News
Flowers and Friendship
Kristen, our craft leader.
On Saturday, September 15th, we were blessed to spend time with our dear friends at St. PJ’s. It was a wonderful morning of crafts, laughter, and conversation. We made duct tape flower pens and friendship bracelets. The girls LOVE crafts! As they worked, the girls shared their experiences from the first few weeks of school—classes they like and don’t like, hard tests, friends they’ve made, and extracurricular activities they are involved with. They were also looking forward to a day at Schlitterbahn on Sunday. We finished with snacks brought by our fabulous volunteers. Everyone seemed to have a great time.
Thank you to our volunteers that led the crafts—Sandy Brunner, Kristen Brunner, and Tori Tyler. 
Mark your calendars for next month’s event on October 20th hosted by Annie Lutz and Jeannie King.
Also, it’s almost holiday time and Chicktime cookbooks make great gifts! We still have some cookbooks for sale. They are $20. If you are interested in purchasing one, contact Annette at annettegoodson@sbcglobal.net.
Love and blessings,
Donnette, Diane, and Annette
” For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
August News
Polish and Pampering–Chicktime Style!!
Showing Off Manicured Nails
July Chicktime San Antonio was a huge success. There were at least 30 young “chicks” that joined about 10 adult “chicks” to serve the girls at St. PJ’s. The room was simply breathtaking! We started off the afternoon with Miss Teen San Antonio and Miss San Antonio sharing their testimony and their love for our Savior. What an amazing opportunity for all the girls, volunteers and St. PJ gals, to hear two beautiful young ladies encourage them to follow after Christ and to glorify Him with their life. When the
Preparing for Pedis
sharing time was over we quickly moved to pedicures and manicures. Oh how this just blessed my spirit to see so many young volunteers ready to serve and bless the St. PJ’s girls. While at first the girls were apprehensive about getting their feet washed and toes polished, by the end of the afternoon almost all of them sat down to get their pedis!! One of my favorite moments was when one of the young ladies had two girls polishing each of her hands and two other girls polishing each of her feet all the while wearing a tiara from Miss Teen San Antonio!! What a beautiful picture of her being a Princess, and indeed she is because she is a child of The King!! Another moment that sticks out in
Picture with Miss San Antonio & Miss Teen San Antonio
my mind was as the afternoon was coming to a close you really couldn’t tell who was lived at St. PJ’s and who was a teen volunteer because they were all doing each other’s nails!! Sitting around tables laughing and talking and painting nails, my heart was overwhelmed to see all of these girls share this afternoon together. What a spectacular day we had loving these girls!!
Thanks for the opportunity to be a part of Chicktime!
Tracy Holzmann~ July 2012 Chicktime San Antonio Monthly leader
We are still trying to find leaders for August and September as the volunteers originally signed up to lead had to back out due to personal reasons. We can be flexible with August since the girls are not in school and can do it almost any time and day! Please pray about it. The Holy Spirit is always present so have no fear!! All the girls really want is for us to just be with them!
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it.’ Isaiah 30:21
All our love,
Annette, Diane and Donnette
Chicktime San Antonio Chapter leaders
JULY NEWS
LSSS Foster Family Appreciation Picnic
Saturday June 9th, Chicktime volunteered at the Annual Picnic for Lutheran Social Services. We worked a craft table, making paper butterflies, foam photo frames, and Duct tape wallets and flower pens. Though it was a small group, those who did the crafts enjoyed it. Everyone especially found the duct tape wallets to be cool, including the other volunteers! The event was in benefit of foster families, and several awards were presented during the picnic. Everyone had a great time. Thank you to Lisa and Hayley Drozdick for sponsoring this event and for coming up with the creative craft activities!
Bunco at St. PJ’s
Rolling for sixes
We were rolling for sixes on June 15th at St. PJ’s as we taught the girls how to play bunco. They seemed to really enjoy learning how to play this fun and easy dice game. We all had a great time playing, talking, laughing, and getting to know each other. The girls were really relaxed now that school is out and they have a little more free time. We enjoyed hearing about some of the summer camps they had attended and about the dance they were having at St. PJ’s that evening. We capped off the afternoon with ice cream sundaes—yumm! Some of the girls were really sweet and made sundaes for the volunteers. It was an awesome afternoon! Thanks go out to all the ladies at ATKG, LLP for sponsoring this event.
Making new friends
Join us on July 21st for some pampering when we have a spa day at St. PJ’s sponsored by Tracy Holzman.
Love and blessings,
Donnette, Diane & Annette
God’s plan is to make known his secret to his people, this rich and glorious secret which he has for all peoples. And the secret is that Christ is in you, which means that you will share in the glory of God.
Colossians 1:27
Lessons in Gentleness
What a wonderful morning we had with the girls at St. PJ’s on Saturday, May 19th. The activities were sponsored by a group of teen girls from St. Thomas Episcopal Church and guided by their adult mentors, Christi Atkins and Mirta Vazquez. God had to have been smiling down on all of them!
The girls started by leading some icebreaker games so everyone could get comfortable with their new friends. They then divided into teams for a game of Human Clue with a Disney theme. The teens from St. Thomas dressed up as Disney Characters and led different activities while the various teams traveled around to different stations to try to be the first one to find all the answers to the clues. This was great fun!
Preparing to Play Disney Human Clue
The games were followed by a bible lesson on “gentleness” that was prepared by one of the teens. We all learned about the importance of treating others with gentleness as well as ourselves and that gentleness does not mean weakness. It was beautiful to see that one of the girls from St. PJ’s was so enthusiastic about the lesson that she asked if she could do some of the reading. The teens from St. Thomas Episcopal are definitely filled with the Holy Spirit and shared their faith so enthusiastically with their new friends.
The teens brought snacks to share that are traditional fare for all of their get-togethers: popcorn, jelly beans, and M&M’s. We also had cookies and snack mix.
A big “Thank You” to all of the volunteers that showed up this month to make this a special morning. You may never know the impact you have on these girls’ lives. But, rest assured—you are making a difference!
With grateful hearts,
Diane Godwin, Donnette Tyler, and Annette Goodson
God works in all things for the good of those who love him.
Romans 8:28
Upcoming Events (Check Calendar for More Details):
June 9 – Crafts for LSSS Foster Family Appreciation Picnic at O.P. Schnabel Park
June 15 – Bunco & Ice Cream Sundae Party at St. PJ’s
Viva Fiesta!
Chicktime San Antonio celebrated, with the girls from St. PJ’s, NIOSA (Night in Ole San Antonio) style. Seli and Karrissa Compton planned the second annual Fiesta activity and went all out! The girls got to come off campus on Friday, April 27th, to Bulverde Methodist Church and experience foods from various countries, play games, make tissue paper flowers at a craft table, and dance the night away.
Many volunteers helped make this evening possible by saying YES to help Seli and Karrissa host the perfect evening. Food tables were lined up on one side of the gym and the girls went back for seconds and thirds and still saved room for desserts! DJ Don (AKA Coach Don Greenwood) and his wife, Tami Greenwood, played music throughout the evening and assisted in the cake walk. The girls played this game over and over because they won stuffed animals instead of cakes. Hundreds of stuffed animals were donated just for this game! We promise–hundreds is not an exaggeration. At the end of the night we had so many left over we sent them back with the girls in trash bags! There was also a bean bag toss and bucket throw game where the girls had opportunities to win candy bags donated by Sandy Brunner and Melissa Ling. They also were in charge of the games the whole evening! As if this wasn’t enough….a craft table was set up by Michelle and Camryn Kelly. They provided all the supplies for the girls to learn to make tissue paper fiesta flowers!
The girls line danced together with the young “chicks” and laughed and were able to just have an evening free of worries and sadness. The prayer circle with all the volunteers and St. PJ girls and staff took half a gym and was breathtaking! We believe the girls saw and felt Jesus that evening.
Other thanks go to our food table volunteers….
USA – Shannon Lafavers
Mexico – Anna Nicolai
Mexico – Leticia Rodela
China – Monica Hernandez
Germany – Staci Hernandez
Italy – Anne Lee McDonald
Desserts from around the world – Jeanne Schaefer and Stephanie Parker (Diane Godwin/Annette Goodson contributed to the table)
Hungary – Colleen Douglas
Ireland – Teresa Zito
Keishla Felix Plum – Puerto Rico
Donnette Tyler-beverages
I hear the Compton’s are already planning next year’s Fiesta event! In the meantime, join the girls youth group from St. Thomas Episcopal Church as they lead Chicktime on Saturday, May 19th at 10:00 at St. PJ’s.
With grateful hearts,
Annette Goodson, Diane Godwin and Donnette Tyler
San Antonio Chicktime leaders
“We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.” (1 John 3:16)
April News
CAN’T WAIT ‘TIL SUMMER!!!
On Friday night of March 23rd, Chicktime San Antonio hung out with the girls at St. PJ’s in hopes of getting them ready for summer! As the girls arrived they were adorned with Hawaiian leis and prayed over as we began our evening together. Beach themed games were played outdoors and Hawaiian punch snow cones were served to cool the girls off before moving back inside! St. PJ’s gals, alongside our teenage Chicks, decorated flip flops. The girls got to choose the material they wanted to decorate with–balloons, fabric, or ribbon. The craft time allowed the girls to not only be creative, but to laugh and share with each other throughout the evening. The flip flops were beautiful and snacks a big hit! Fruit, popcorn, trail mix…..and oh the chocolate chip cookies! The girls ate every last bit we had.
Many thanks to Colleen and Katherine Douglas for leading the activity and all the volunteers who showed up to love on the precious girls! It’s a blessing to hear them say with joy, “See you next month!”
We hope you can join us on Friday, April 27th, for our 2nd annual Night in Ole San Antonio event! Food booths, music, games and more! Chicktime San Antonio will be bringing fiesta to St. PJ’s! Contact us if you want to help!
With love and gratitude,
Annette, Diane and Donnette
Chicktime San Antonio Chapter Leaders
“[God has] given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ages ago he planned that we should spend these lives in helping others.” (Ephesians 2:10 TLB)
Upcoming Events:
April 27 – Night in Ole San Antonio – hosted by Seli Compton
May 19 – Activity TBA – hosted by Christie Atkins & Mirta Vasquez
March News
New FriendsRock Stars
On Friday, February 17th, Chicktime San Antonio (led by Teri Villanueva and Diana Flores) treated the girls at St. PJ’s to a “TGIF Karaoke Party”. The party started off with dinner of pizza and assorted snacks. The girls wasted no time after dinner dressing up with different props and hopping into the photo booth to take some silly and cute pictures of themselves. While the photo booth was going on during the night, others selected to dance and sing the night away. We didn’t know there was so much talent with our girls – America’s Got Talent watch out! It was a joy to see the glow and confidence in their faces as they sang their favorite tunes. By the end of the night, we could not keep them off the dance floor! Thanks to Ron and Sylvia Carrillo of Loco Motion Flip Books who so generously donated their photo booth and to Lisa Diaz who offered her hip and groovy DJ and Karaoke services. Their generosity is proof that God always puts the right people in your path!
Blessings,
Annette Goodson, Diane Godwin, and Donnette Tyler
Let love be your highest goal! 1 Corinthians 14:1
NOTE THE DATE CHANGE FOR CHICKTIME IN MARCH DUE TO
SPRING BREAK~
On Saturday, March 31st, Colleen Douglas will lead Chicktime San Antonio and we will decorate flip flops with the girls to get them ready for spring!
Upcoming Activities:
Friday, April 20 – Fiesta food and fun hosted by Seli Compton
Saturday, May 19 – Activity TBA hosted by Christie Atkins & Mirta Vasquez
A Note From One of Our Very Special Volunteers
Please take a moment to read this…..
Last May, my daughter Katherine, my sister Diane and I had the privilege of leading a month of Chicktime fun. We made gorgeous bracelets, enjoyed healthy snacks and played a few games. I have to admit, I was nervous about leading a month. I was afraid I wouldn’t have enough food or enough helpers. But with encouragement from Donnette and the help of several ladies and their ‘Chicks’, we had a very successful event!! The time commitment and financial commitment was negligible. Everyone always brings something to help you out.
I had a friend that makes jewelry. She had mentioned that she was getting rid of some beads that were from seasons past. And there it was, my opportunity to make bracelets!! She graciously offered to give me all the beads, wire, clasps and jewelry implements to make 50 bracelets. God never ceases to amaze me with His goodness! And thank you Jenn!
The girls all enjoyed strawberry shortcake, watermelon, banana bread, veggies and more! We served all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables so the girls could experience some yummy items that they may had never tried. Donnette split the girls into 2 groups for the Starburst Game! Each color of candy had a meaning and the girls sat quietly in a circle and really shared some thoughts and fun with each other. We made a huge circle and ended in a prayer. What a blessing it was for us to experience the Holy Spirit at work with our girls and the St. PJ’s girls. And yes, we are signed up to lead another activity this March!
So, if you love being with vibrant young ladies and want to have some incredible fun and fellowship, PLEASE sign up to lead a month of Chicktime. I sure am glad I did and you will be too. And if I can, I will be there to lend a hand!! God bless Chicktime!
Colleen Douglas
Months that still need a leader are…June, August, and November!
February News
Wow! What amazing and creative leaders we had last month! We were so blessed to have our January activity at St. PJ’s led by Monica Hernandez and Sonja Escobar. Station one consisted of cupcake decorating. What girl doesn’t love frosting and sprinkles? The girls had a ball and made extras to give as gifts to friends. Station two consisted of making and decorating journals with colored paper, markers, and lots of jewels. After all, you gotta have bling! Station three was all about decorating snack containers. They used markers, stickers, jewels and lots of creativity. Afterwards, they filled their containers with a variety of snacks to take back to their dorm. The room was full of smiles and it was so fulfilling for all of the volunteers that showed up to give these girls some love and much-needed attention. Thanks again Monica & Sonja!
Love & blessings,
Diane, Donnette & Annette
Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who trust in him! Psalm 34:8
Upcoming Activities:
Friday, February 17 – Pizza and karaoke hosted by Diana Flores & Terri Villanueva
Saturday, March 17 – Decorating flip flops hosted by Colleen Douglas
Friday, April 20 – Fiesta food and fun hosted by Seli Compton
January News
Chicks Add Cheer
Incredible Christmas Party
Chicktime San Antonio took their Christmas Party on the road and celebrated the season at Incredible Pizza. Thanks to very
generous “chicks”, the girls from St. PJ’s were treated to an all-you-can-eat pizza and salad bar and were given unlimited access game cards to use during our party time. The girls rode bumper cars, drove go-karts, bowled, played putt-putt, played video games, and watched 4-D movies. They giggled, they danced, they ate a lot of ice cream and cinnamon rolls, and begged to stay longer! To end the party, we gathered in the party room to pray and hand out gift sacks filled with lotion, shower gel, chapstick, and deodorant. And, let’s not forget about the $25 gift cards to Target. Did I mention all gifts were donated, too? What a blessing it was to be there that day to hear the girls talking about how grateful they were to Chicktime and how that day was one of the best days of their life!
Our next event is coming up on January 21st. It will be hosted by Monica Hernandez and Sonia Escobar. Mark your calendars. This is sure to be a fun activity.
We are so humbled by the many who continue to support this ministry and look forward to a wonderful New Year. We pray you will make it a point to join us as we continue our journey at St. PJ’s.
Joy to you,
Annette Goodson, Diane Godwin, and Donnette Tyler
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is CHRIST THE LORD. Luke 2:11
December News
Holiday Crafts
Beads, crafts, and cupcakes… a perfect Saturday!
Our November event at St. PJ’s got us in the spirit for the holiday season. We were blessed by some very creative leaders this month—Hannah Hedgpeth, Gena Powell, Leah Dabaghian, & Jennifer Junco. After starting with a prayer and a fun ice-breaker to get to know each other, everyone got the opportunity to visit 3 craft stations to make gifts for friends and family. They made beautiful beaded crosses, exquisite embossed bookmarks, and delicious decorated cupcakes. The girls were beaming with pride at their creations. We all had a fabulous time learning new things. We were so blessed to have these wonderful ladies sharing their talents with us.
Busy Little Hands!
We are still in need of a few volunteers to host 2012 events. If you are interested, please contact one of us.
Love & blessings,
Donnette, Diane, & Annette
If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples. John 13:35
He made us all smile!
Upcoming Events:
December 17 – Christmas Party at Incredible Pizza – hosted by Chicktime San Antonio Leaders
January 21 – TBD – hosted by Monica Hernandez & Sonia Escobar
February 18 – TBD – hosted by Diana Flores & Terri Villanueva
March 17 – Volleyball Clinic – hosted by Colleen Douglas
April 21 – Fiesta – hosted by Seli Compton
May 19 – TBD – hosted by Christi Atkins/Mirta Vasquez
September 15- hosted by Monica Nally
November News
