New Volunteers

Say hello to four of our newest volunteers!! Left to right: Nancy Stolpe, B&B/Guest House Liaison: Molly Sagebiel, Major Donor Team & Data Entry: Tammie Searles, Recording Secretary and Pat Wilkins, Bookkeeping. We are so blessed and excited to have these women join the Wounded Warriors at Nebo Ministry and look forward to working with them. If you have a heart for helping people and would like to be a part of an organization that ministers to the wounded, injured and ill including their families then let us know. Although we are located in Fredericksburg, we work with the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Sam Houston to provide respite to those in treatment and/or transition there.

To learn more about our ministry and what we do go to the Home Page, About Us and Events. Our Facebook Page, http://facebook.com/ww.nebo has photos and stories of all our events. You may also email us at info@wwnebo.org .

Happenings

August 6th Card Making Class

We had 7 people join us for card making at WFSC (Warrior Family Support Center) last Tuesday. We were having so much fun that Sharon & I both forgot to take pictures during the class. Thankfully we have the samples so can share them so you can see what everyone made.

After the class we enjoyed a yummy Gooey Butter Cake made by a volunteer in Fredericksburg. If you are in the area next Tuesday, August 20 come join us. The class starts at 10am and is usually over between 11:30am and 12:00pm. Jackie and Jan will be teaching and of course there will be a really good dessert.

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New Chaplain

Tuesday we had the pleasure of meeting and lunching with the new WTB chaplain in addition to Chaplain Thompson who is being deployed to Korea and Chaplain Assistant Cincotta who will be here to help Chaplain Shannon get acclimated to his new assignment. It has been a pleasure working with Chaplain Thompson. His passion for helping those in pain, both physical and emotional, was in inspiration to all involved. He will be missed.

However, we are looking forward to working with Chaplain Shannon who expressed a desire to continue with the Retreats, R&Rs, Couples in Crisis and Spiritual Fitness events that we organize and host. He is the fourth chaplain that Wounded Warriors at Nebo will have worked with since the ministry started in 2011. God has really blessed this ministry by sending chaplains who are willing to work with us to help the wounded, injured and ill and their families in whatever way we can.

Day Event

Nimitz Golf Classic

Every year the Nimitz foundation has a golf tournament as part of their fund-raising activities. This year Wounded Warriors at Nebo was honored to be a part of that. We had three warriors who rode back seat in WWII airplanes doing a fly over to kick off the golf tournament at Boot Ranch Golf Club. Saying they were excited is obviously an understatement. All had flying experience but said this was like nothing they had ever done. In addition, there were 8 golfers who participated in the actual golf tournament. It was a perfect day with a breeze to offset the high temperatures. One of the joys of this event was seeing wounded warriors and their family again whom we hadn’t seen since they were medically retired. Each golfer was paired with a foursome. It was obvious at the close that new friendships had been made. Anthony Iwuchukwu, one of our wounded warriors, was on the team winning 3rd place in the tournament. What a wonderful day.

To see more pictures click on “Photos” at the top of the page. They are also posted on our facebook page.

Day Event

Kick Up Your Boots

May 26th was our annual fundraiser featuring Bernie Nelson and Thomas Michael Riley in concert. What a great night!! Great Music! Packed Crowd! Generous People! It was a perfect storm. People were competitively bidding on silent auction items and trying not to miss any of the great music. We interrupted the music from time to time to draw prizes. Grand prize, $1,200 toward a cruise from any port to any destination, was won by Nathan Crenwelge. Second prize, $1,000 in $50 gift cards went to Jim Heupel. Third prize, $550 cash, to Farley Hemphill. In addition, there were multiple gift baskets, gift cards, etc won. People’s generosity was overwhelming and not just those attending the concert but all who purchased tickets for the drawing and donated items for the silent auction. In addition to the numerous local supporters (Fredericksburg and surrounding area) there were many who were visiting our fair town from Houston, Midland, New Mexico to name a few. GOD really blessed this fund raising event. Proceeds will help WWAN to provide respite to the wounded, injured, & ill active military, medically retired veterans and their families.

In a true act of selflessness and generosity, several winners of both the drawings and silent auction items immediately gave their winnings to a warrior(s) attending the concert or donated their winnings back to WWAN to be used at a future event for the warriors.

SPECIAL THANKS to Western Edge Cellars who provided the space for the concert and their staff for excellent service, Inn on Barons Creek for discounted rates for the warriors who attended and all the tireless volunteers whose labor is priceless.

Click on “Photos” on the menu at the top of the page to see more photos from the fundraiser.

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1Q19 Newsletter

Clicking the this link ( NL 3-19 ) will open the Newsletter then you can read on line or download. Enjoy!!

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R & R in Fredericksburg

Couples and families met at Memorial Presbyterian Church Friday, 2/22-24/2019, evening for dinner and orientation for their weekend in Fredericksburg. During orientation they learned they could go to the Fredericksburg Cinema and National Museum of the Pacific free of charge. Some other options for the weekend were shopping, exploring the Fredericksburg area or just hanging out. After dinner a small group from Oak Hills Church called bingo.

Saturday’s lunch was at Mr. Gattis’ Pizza. Each family was provided with tokens to play
the arcade games. Seems many of the adults had as much fun as the kids. Later that evening everyone gathered at Oak
Hills Church for dinner.

The following generous individuals donated use of their guest houses for the weekend: Ed and Betsy Fredericks, Karl Ransleben, John and Peggy Benson, Mike and Debbi McCurdy, Charles and Lou Newman. The Inn on Barons Creek also blessed the ministry with special room rates for the weekend.

Click the link https://wwnebo.org/photos to view photos from the weekend.

Happenings

Birthday Surprise

It started out as a regular Tuesday card class at WFSC. Jackie and Jan were the designers/teachers. It was a smaller than usual class but they were enjoying making the cards and catching up on what had happened since the last class when Sharon arrived with a birthday cake for Jackie. Needless to say she was totally surprised.

The card Jackie designed was for St Patricks Day while Jan’s was a Valentine. Both original and uniquely pretty.

Come Join the fun. You just never know what’s going to happen at one of our classes.

Click this link https://wwnebo.org/photos to see more photos.

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Card Making Fun

Just because we call it a card class doesn’t mean we always make cards. Once in a while, like just before Christmas when we were tired of making Christmas cards and it was too late to send them to arrive before Christmas, we come up with something different. Sharon designed a cover for post it pads and a fun Frog card.

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December Family R & R

Fredericksburg ROCKS! Once again, despite cancellation of the Parade of Lights and After Glow Party, this community has put on its glad rags for Christmas and welcomed 10 wounded warrior families to join us for this celebratory season. These 50 people were all treated to dinner in the ballroom of the Nimitz Museum then played games to win the live poinsettia centerpieces before going off to other entertainments. They had many opportunities for entertainment through the weekend including going to Fritztown Theater for a movie, entry to the Nimitz Museum, going ice skating at the Eisbahn, experiencing German and settler crafts at Pioneer Museum and, of course, shopping and meals at West End Pizza and Fredericksburg United Methodist Church. Wow, what a weekend!

If anyone is questioning the value of our efforts as seen by those who come to visit let us share two special stories from this weekend. Our first surprise came from the Menchaca family. They have been able to come to another of our events earlier in the year and indicated on Friday that they had something they would like to share with our volunteers when they came for dinner on Saturday. What they had were Christmas ornaments for each of the group who had prepared dinner for us and several others, and two cheesecakes for all to share. They had made a special trip to Mexico to find the ornaments.

The second example of gratitude occurred on Saturday also. As dinner was finishing, one of the soldiers, SFC Tyson Persona, asked for the opportunity to use the microphone. He spoke eloquently of the difference between being thanked for their service when seen in uniform and being invisible once separated from their military arm due to their injuries. He explained that we (Wounded Warriors at Nebo) were the ones who recognized and met their need for continued recognition of their sacrifices. He stated that this community have opened our arms to them and made them feel both welcomed and thanked for their continuing sacrifice of health and well-being.

Thank you to all who have donated services, money, time and prayers. An extra special thanks to the Nimitz Museum for donating their ballroom space for dinner on Friday evening, to Heritage School for donating free skating for all of our visitors, to the Pioneer Museum for the donation of free admission, and to Fritztown Theater for a deep discount on movie admission for 31 people. I am sure the families you have affected this weekend would tell you the same – God bless Fredericksburg!

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