Alpine Echoes- Winter 2016 ECHOES News Dec 2016_WEB
ALPINE
ECHOES
UPCOMING
PROGRAMMED EVENTS
All are welcome.
To register, visit www.alpine-cc.org
or call (800) 350-6289.
JANUARY 13-15, 2017
Elementary 1 Winter Weekend
JANUARY 20-22, 2017
Elementary 2 Winter Weekend
JANUARY 27-29, 2017
High School Winter Weekend
FEBRUARY 3-5, 2017
Junior High 1 Winter Weekend
On Angel’s Wings
Who can take anyone’s gently-used donated clothing, couches, lamps,
jewelry, toys, art and sports equipment and turn them into camp scholarships
and funding for special camp projects? Well, the Alpine Angels of course,
and there is a whole army of them!
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016 was the 35th anniversary
of the Alpine Angels thrift
store ministry started back in
1981 by Marilyn Porter. One of her
sons had dedicated his life to Christ
at Alpine a few years before, and then
late one night she woke her husband
FEBRUARY 10-12, 2017
Junior/Senior High
Combo Winter Weekend
FEBRUARY 24-26, 2017
Junior High 2 Winter Weekend
MAY 12-14, 2017
Give-a-Day Volunteer
Work Weekend
You can see why customers
feel appreciated.
Join us as we
celebrate Alpine’s
60th year in 2017!
Stay tuned for more
information on reunions
and celebrations.
WINTER 2017
with an idea that seemed God-given:
to open a thrift store that would help
provide needed scholarships for other
kids to attend camp.
Thirty five years later with over
$2.1 million raised, Alpine Angels
thrift shops, The Alpine Attics,
are currently going strong in their
Simi Valley and Lomita locations. In
fact, there has been so much support
in Alpine’s surrounding mountain
community, through ongoing
donations of items for these stores,
that the search is on to open a third
store near Alpine itself. (We’ll keep
you posted on that!)
Kimberly Plantenga is the
current volunteer chair of this
extensive endeavor. Her background
in bookkeeping, knowledge of
business, and dedication to the cause
of children encountering Jesus, made
her an inspired choice when Marilyn
stepped out of that role five years
ago. There are currently over 150
volunteers that make this ministry
happen: some are treasurers, cashiers,
inventory stockers, merchandise fixers,
donation picker-uppers…and that’s
the short list.
One of these dedicated
volunteers, Ed Urban, age 95, has
been volunteering at the Lomita
store for over 20 years to work on any
broken toys along with about 20 other
dedicated volunteers who each spend
4-5 hours each Monday afternoon
(and some more often) in a specific
area, sprucing up the donations to
make sure items are in good shape
and in working order. Harriot Hill,
manager the Lomita Attic, and Dick
Hodnefield, manager of the Simi
Valley Attic, work diligently to oversee
the daily operations. Debbie Johnson
and Verna Parker handle the money at
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