Arkansas Alpha Delta Kappa
January 2019
Happy New Year! I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season with your family and friends. Our state officers and committee chairs will soon meet to conduct the business of our organization on the 26st of this month, at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock. The state board meetings are held each year in September and January and are open to all members. Please consider attending to learn more about our organization on the state level. Refreshments are served from 9:30-10:00 AM followed by the meeting which will conclude around noon.
The clock is ticking for you to attend the St. Jude visit scheduled for March 29, 2019!! Please consider joining sisters and spouses to tour this amazing facility with which Alpha Delta Kappa has a long and special connection. Those attending will have the opportunity to tour the hospital and grounds in small groups, visit to the new Pathway of Hope with our stone, time at the gift shop, buffet lunch, group photo, speakers, patient family sharing time, and learning ways we can continue to help St. Jude and Q and A time. The program will begin no later than 10:00 am and conclude by 4:30 pm. If you are interested in joining us for this special opportunity, please send your name, S/P/N, chapter, email and phone to Gloria Beatson, Alpha Delta Kappa Foundation Vice Chairman, at beatson@mindspring.com no later than Jan. 15, 2019.
I know that we are entering our coldest months of the year, but there isn’t a better time to look forward to the warm days of July at the International Convention. Have you made your reservation at the four-star Hilton Minneapolis yet? Reservations opened earlier this month and will quickly fill up. I pray that your new year will be filled with health, happiness and prosperity.
Chanetta Case
Arkansas Alpha Delta Kappa President
World Understanding
Hello Sisters
I trust you have had a happy holiday and wish you blessings in 2019. I am writing to each of you because our
World Understanding donations for project TEACH, TOO have fallen behind the usual amount at this time. I know many districts and chapters will collect all year and send a large donation at the end of May. But since I have challenged each chapter to make donation of $25 or more, I want you start a competition within your state to get all the chapters names on the list below. Can you or your World Understanding chair (with FB or email blast access) publish the chapter's names who donate as I receive the info and get it back to you each month--with some jovial encouragement to get the donations into the Foundation so they can join the list? AT your district or state board meetings, please put out a donation basket labeled Project Teach Too. Use the attached photos to make a flyer or FB post. I have traveled there and know Imagine Missions is a worthy recipient and does great work with orphans and education that is desperately needed in the third world area I visited in March. Teach Too will purchase 10 Safe-T homes to house 48 students who age out of the educational system in Haiti at 18 to give them more professional and job training and to help them transition into society with a trade. The young people can only stay in the transitional housing for 2 years. The land is already owned by the school and the professional classes are already being taught on Saturdays at this time. These Safe-T homes are shipped from Iowa. This list is for the end of month of November and I will send you December's additions as soon as I receive them.
ARK = Psi, XI, Nu, Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Rho, Alpha
KS= Upsilon, Rho
Missouri=Upsilon
OK= Theta
TX=District X and District VIII, Beta Iota, Epsilon Upsilon, Beta Chi
Thank you so much for your help in supporting this campaign. Melissa Young, the director of Imagine Missions, will speak at the convention in Minneapolis. YOU can 'like" the Imagine Missions Face Book page and see photos of what is happening there. Their website is also full of valuable information. Please let me know if I can support you in any way. I now have a shortened version of the slide show that might be easy to email to you for use at meetings. Contact me if it is needed for your chapter, state or district meetings,
Treasurer's Notes
Most of the dues are in. Thanks for the timely reporting by most chapters. Just a reminder that dues were due January 1st and will be charged late fees after January 31st at both the state and International level.
Also, each chapter needs to send International, State President Cindy, and State Treasurer Carolyn Melton copies of H-119 when someone makes changes to membership such as status, change of name or address, resignation, or Omega. These forms can be found on Headquarters web site at www.alphadeltakappa.org.
Carolyn Melton, AR Treasurer
Share With Us...
- Please let me know if a card needs to be sent to members in your chapter.
- Please send pictures of meetings etc.
- If you know a sister who has been honored for work in or out of school, please send me the information.
- Don’t forget to send me your chapter minutes, I love finding out what is happening in your chapters.
- Remember to send me the altruistic and fraternity education projects that you use in your meetings.
Upcoming Events
International Convention: July 17-20, 2019 will be held in Minneapolis, MN.
Regional Conference: July 24-27, 2020 will be held in Wichita, Kansas.
Alpha Chapter
Alpha Epsilon
Prayer Warriors...
Kathy Roberts our state President-elect has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Please keep her in your prayers.
Her address is: 332 Melwood St.
Hot Springs, Ar 71901
Altruistic News
Kids Against Hunger
International has introduced the 2019 International Convention Altruistic project - Kids Against Hunger is a non-profit humanitarian organization with a mission to provide fully nutritious food to impoverished children and families around the world...and around the corner. The goal of the organization is for the meals to provide a stable nutritional base from which recipient families can move their families from starvation or food insecurity to self-sufficiency.
Fulfilling Kids Against Hunger's mission requires a vast food packaging capacity to meet an endless demand for food. Kids Against Hunger believes that the best way to engage the largest number of people is through a decentralized, locally-based network of food packaging satellites that are active in their community. This model engages and empowers people to realize they can make a difference in solving the worldwide problem of starvation and establishes relationships with organizations such as Kiwanis and Rotary. This growth strategy also allows the organization to continuously expand its food packaging capacity and volunteer involvement.
Since its launch, Kids Against Hunger has provided over 2 billion meals for children and their families in 70 countries through the efforts of hundreds of thousands of volunteers.
About us:
Kathy Roberts, President Elect
Email: chanettacase.adk@yahoo.com
Website: http://arkansasadk.wixsite.com/aradk
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