Fayetteville Lady Lifeliners was formed last year, September 2009, by four college-aged lady leaders and Fayetteville Ozone Director, Emily Bankhead. The hope and vision of Lady Lifeliners was to be a bridge that allowed us to become more intentional with the Camp War Eagle elementary girls, while giving them community service opportunities. The four main goals that we strive to meet during each event is a bible teaching and bible verse memorization, a life-skill, a community service project and something fun!
We have had a really great year and a half with lots of different activities and projects, ranging from canned food drives, slumber parties, a trip out to a family farm in Elkins, an ice skating and swimming party, making valentines for the Wedington Retirement Home, a trip to the Fayetteville Animal Shelter, picnics and park clean-ups, making cards and potted flowers for the residents of the Fayetteville City Hospital, learning how to sew and cook, a trip to The Walton Arts Center to see the play A Christmas Carol, and many, many other fun activities.
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| A Lady Lifeliners Slumber Party! |
On Saturday, February 19th, we had 24 beautifully dressed elementary girls join us for our Lady Lifeliners Tea Party at AAO in Fayetteville! The girls came dressed to the nines in their best tea party outfits; we had sparkly dresses and tulle skirts and sequined headbands and curled hair. They were gorgeous!
We started the morning off with a make-up parlor and a crazy costume closet for a fun photo booth setting. The girls had a great time loading up on blue eyeshadow, boas and tiaras for their glamour shots with their friends.
We spent part of the morning learning the etiquettes of being a lady, such as how to wear gloves and when to remove gloves, how to properly drink from a tea cup, how to sit with exquisite posture, how to curtsy, and our favorite, how to do the Waltz. The girls did a phenomenal job dancing to Sound Of Music’s Edelweiss.
Emily read the story of Zacchaeus the Tax Collector to the girls and focused the talk on loving people that are sometimes hard to love. The girls had a great time memorizing (to dance and hand moves, of course) 1 Peter 3:8 – Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another, be compassionate, love as brothers, be sympathetic and humble.
After the teaching, the leaders and students were blessed by the parents of the Lady Lifeliners. The parents went above and beyond expectations by bringing delicious Tea Party snacks. We had incredible petifores, mini-sandwiches, cupcakes, banana bread, grapes, tea, and apple juice. The girls were so thankful as they ate the great food and drank from real tea cups.
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| Delicious snacks and real tea cups! |
One of our dear mothers, Paula Grage, joyfully spent an hour teaching the girls how to make beautiful cards for Loving Choices Clinic in Fayetteville and then pop-up tea cup cards to give to friends as an invitation to come to the next Lady Lifeliners or church.
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| Beautiful handmade cards! |
We had a wonderful morning and look forward to our service project on March 12th!
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