Henriet's Blog

Semper Vita Signs Partner at the NW Ministry Conference!

On Saturday, March 20, Dan signed his church up to be a Semper Vita partner. He is the outreach pastor and really looks forward to partnering together. Thanks Dan! Welcome to you and your church. We look forward to working with you and making a difference together!

Dan and his church join the ten other churches and non-profits that have already partnered with Semper Vita. While we wait for the finishing touches on the software, we will be working with our partners to start impacting our local communities. 

At the Northwest Ministry Conference, 25 other churches and non-profit organizations indicated interest in partnership. If you, your church or non-profit are interested to learn more about partnering, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to talking with you to explore how we can support you and help you partner with others to reach your local community for Jesus.

Thank you! Our launch was a success

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the booth, staffed the booth and for all those people cheering us on behind the scenes. Also a big "thank you" to all the people who have been supporting us in prayer! The launch went very well.

Tamara showing Laurie Bunnell and Tamara Buchan from Missio Lux a preview of our social software. Cindy is helping a person fill out a card.

Booth traffic and 5 lucky winners

In total we had over 200 people stop by our booth. About 150 people filled out a card for our $500 give-away. We had 5 winners each of whom won $100! We gave away Semper Vita pens and brochures to everyone who came by the booth.

Jeanne accepts her $100. She was the first to come claim her prize.

Cindy hands Dan his $100. He was the last to come claim his prize.

We gave away lots of water bottles.

Additionally, we gave away a Semper Vita water bottle to the first 100 registrants that filled out a drawing card. Our water bottles were such a hit that people were asking for them and offered to buy them. One college student took a dented one just so she could have a “cool” Semper Vita water bottl

All in all, the Semper Vita launch was a hit!

A big "thank you" to our volunteers and others

I also want to thank everyone who helped us prior to the launch. Some of us have put in thousands of hours of volunteer time to get us this far. So a heartfelt "thank you" to: Cindy, Ed, Tamara, Jeff, Ardis, Dina, Fred, and Alex. An additional "thank you" goes out to Jacqui Lott who's designed our look and to Jason Savino who is creating our website application. We could not have done it without you. Thank you for making this happen!

Semper Vita Launches Today!

Today is the day! We are announcing Semper Vita to the world.

The booth is ready! Bring on the people and the partners! Today we start the process of creating a volunteer community made up of non-profits, churches and individuals. Together we will do more serious good.

At the show, we will be giving away five $100 bills to winners of our drawing. We hope that each winner will use the money to do serious good in their community. Hopefully, they will share their stories on the Semper Vita website and inspire others to go do more serious good too.

We will be presenting six workshops at the conference - four of them directly relate to Semper Vita:

1. “Missional Volunteering: Let’s Take the Church out of it’s Box” - about intentionally and missionally volunteering to show Jesus’ love in action.
2. “You Want Me To Do What?” Missional Living Your Way” - about connecting with others to demonstrate Jesus’ love in action.
3. “Improve Your Missional Impact: Connecting Churches to Reach the Least of These in our Communities” - about churches and non-profits partnering to reach their communities with the love of Jesus.
4. “I Want To Follow But What Am I Supposed To Do?” - about discovering your wiring, purpose and focus.

Semper Vita is the first organization to combine missional volunteering to intentional connecting and personal discovery. We desire to help each individual to live missionally intentionally.

We also are pioneering the idea to partner with churches and non-profits to create a missional volunteering community that demonstrates the love of Christ through action.

Semper Vita is about providing quality and tailored volunteer opportunities rather than providing large quantities of volunteer possibilities.

Partner with us today! If you or your organization are in the Greater Seattle area, contact us to be part of the Semper Vita partner network.

Setting Up the Semper Vita Booth at the NW Ministry Conference 2010

Today we are setting up our booth and tomorrow we launch Semper Vita. It's finally here! Here are a few pictures of us setting up our first booth. Enjoy!

Our first order of business: Hanging the Semper Vita banner at the Northwest Ministry Conference 2010. Looking good so far!

 

Fred is delivering the supplies we need for the booth. Lots to bring in.

Setting up the display tables. Thanks Sally for loaning us the tables.

Henriet is showing off the use of the mailbox to her mother Dina who was one of the booth workers. The mailbox was used for the Semper Vita brochures. 

We are ready to go!

Thank you to Tamara, Cindy, Fred, Dina and Ardis for helping set up!