Haymarket Ward Christmas Party! Saturday, December 8

Please join us for our annual ward Christmas party this coming Saturday, December 8th, at 6:00 pm at the church!  Come for a festive evening including a delicious family-style dinner, uplifting music, and good company with the ward family.  We hope to see you at the celebration!

Missionary Fireside, Thursday, Nov. 8th, 7:00 pm

Come join us for an evening of spiritual feasting!  We will be joined by recently returned missionaries Brother and Sister Aulestia, who will share experiences from their service in Peru and Nauvoo.  

Come hear about the work, the challenges, and the blessings that have come from it, to help inspire all of us to remember the joy of service as we prepare to head into the holiday season.  Dessert will be served.

Please come in Sunday dress.  

Children's class will be provided.

Relief Society Patriotic Campfire, October 11

Please join us to celebrate our country with an evening around the campfire!

Where: Ginger Turnbull's home, 13631 Chestnut Ridge Ct., Haymarket

When: Thursday, October 11, 7:00 pm

What:  Come in your best patriotic attire, sing patriotic songs, test your knowledge of presidential trivia, and of course, roast marshmallows for s'mores!  Sister Candland will be sharing her insights on the blessings of living in a country where we are free to participate in the process of choosing our leaders (or run for office ourselves!).  We'll also have a few examples of favorite cookie recipes of some of our Presidents.  I will be bringing James Polk's chocolate caramel fingers, but I'm also tempted by William Henry Harrison's lemon hospitality thins...anyway, there are plenty of recipes, so if you'd like to try one and bring it, let me know!  Or bring a favorite treat of your own!

It looks like it will be chilly after sunset, so dress warmly and bring a camp chair.  There will not be a children's class.

Hope to see you there!

Collection for Day of Service, September 29

Thanks to all those who are already bringing in food for our Day of Service project in conjunction with the Haymarket Regional Food Pantry to provide Thanksgiving baskets to 250 needy families. We've received an official list of items for each basket:

Turkey (checks to go toward turkey gift cards can be made out to Haymarket Regional Food Pantry)
Instant potatoes
Canned corn
Canned green beans

French fried onions

Ritz crackers

Mushroom soup

Stuffing

Canned cranberry sauce

Canned yams

Marshmallows

Turkey gravy

Chicken broth

Bisquick mix

Jello

Cake mix or other dessert mix

Frosting

More information on helping with the collection effort is forthcoming. If you have any questions about this service project, please see Sister Hatala.

Lifelong Learning Night!

'Tis the season to send the area kids back to school, and we invite all sisters to come celebrate learning with us at a Relief Society meeting on Thursday, September 13th, at 7:00 pm in the Cultural Hall.  Sister Carol Ferguson will speak to us about making our homes centers of learning, and we will learn new skills by making fabric flowers for hair clips and brooches.  Come enjoy some good company and light refreshments while we teach each other!  We ask each sister to bring a school supply item to donate to some of our local elementary schools; any school supply is fine, but teachers have particularly requested dry erase markers, pencils, crayons, glue sticks, and hand sanitizer.

We will also be using this activity to kick off our Day of Service later this month, when we will be collecting food to provide Thanksgiving dinner for 250 needy families.  Please bring a donation of non-perishable food from the following list:

stuffing
instant potatoes
corn muffin mix
canned green beans
canned corn
canned cranberries
gravy
jello
cake mix
frosting
disposable turkey roasting pans

If you have any questions about helping with this service project, please see Sister Hatala.

Hope to see you there!  Children's class will be provided.

Haymarket Ward Picnic, Saturday August 11th

The Haymarket Ward will hold a ward picnic on Saturday, August 11th, starting at 5pm. We will meet at Northern Fauquier Community Park, located at 4155 Monroe Parkway in Marshall, just off Rt. 55. The ward has reserved both the Oak Glen Shelter and the Streamsong Shelter (see park map here) so we will have plenty of space to relax in. There is also a nice children's play area, lots of open space for outdoor games, and even a fishing pond.

Everyone is asked to bring a contribution to a potluck dinner, either a main dish (whatever you feel like!), a side dish, or drinks. The ward will provide dessert and paper goods. There is an online signup sheet at  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A49A5AF2EA46-ward to help balance the food offerings. Also feel free to bring balls, gloves, or any other outdoor games, as well as any camp chairs and bug spray.

Directions to the park can be found here.  Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Evening at the Park, July 11

Join us on Wednesday, July 11, at 7 pm for a grown-up play date at Northern Fauquier Community Park! Come relax with your sisters and catch up on all their summer stories.  The park is located at 4155 Monroe Parkway in Marshall, which is just off Rt. 55.  There are shaded places to sit, restrooms, and a playground for the kids.  Kids are welcome, but there will be no official children's class provided--we'll just sit near the playground.

Feel free to come early and bring a picnic for dinner!  Or come at 7:00 and bring a snack or dessert to share. We'll meet at the Oak Glen Shelter near the play area. A map of the park can be found at the link above.  Directions to the park from Google Maps can be found here.

Book Swap and Potluck

June 13 at 7pm will be our Book Swap and Potluck.  Bring a book to swap and enjoy a night of food, literature and sisterhood.  There will be sisters talking about their favorite books and why.  Get ready for a night to fill your que for some good summer reading!

Please bring a salad of any type to share for our potluck.  There will be a nursery provided.

See you there.

Relief Society Birthday Dinner

Relief Society Around the World

Come celebrate the Relief Soceity's birthday on Wednesday, March 14 at 7pm in the Cultural Hall. We will be providing a delicious meal, great speakers who will talk to us about what it's like in RS in other countries (first hand experiences) and you'll even get a chance to decorate your own birthday cupcakes. So come enjoy a fun night of learning, socializing and growing spiritually and culturally. Dinner and nursery provided. For our ongoing service to the hay market food pantry,we ask this month to bring shampoo or conditioner to the birthday dinner to donate.

Announcement!

Relief Society Activity Night has changed to the 2nd Wednesday night at 7pm.

Our next activity will be Wed February 8th and we'll be doing a service project-Birthday Boxes for the Haymarket Food Pantry. We will have a speaker from the food pantry and we will play games! Please bring a shoebox with a box of cake mix, a can of frosting, candles, streamers and any other birthday related goodie. That evening we will "wrap" our boxes and give them to people that otherwise wouldn't have a birthday celebration. And of course our refreshment will be...Birthday cake.