A Touch of Home
A Touch of Home
  • Get Involved
  • Add an overseas soldier
  • Who We Are
    • Linda Lehrke
  • Items We Send
  • RECIPES
    • Recipes for Easter
  • Contact us
  • Photos
    • Troops
    • Packing Day Photos >
      • December 8 2012
    • 2010 Fund Raiser Photos
    • 2012 Fund Raiser Photos >
      • Sunday, August 5th
      • Saturday, August 4th
      • 2012 Fund Raiser
    • 2013 Fund Raiser Pictures
    • 2014 Fund Raiser Pictures >
      • 2014 Fund Raiser
  • Blog

SWCTC Weekly Wire

The South Washington County Telecommunications Commission visited our packing day and shot some footage of our team packing on July 14th.

There are two "mistakes" that we wanted to note a correction for:
1) to contact Linda via email, the correct email address is: linda@atouchofhome.us (not .com)
2) The dates of the Von Hanson's BBQ are August 4th and 5th -- not 5th and 6th!

SWCTC News Video

Linda Lehrke, Founder of A Touch of Home, lost her fight to cancer on November 4, 2016

11/7/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
0 Comments

ATOH FUND RAISER INFORMATION - 2014

8/5/2014

0 Comments

 

Help in two areas is needed this year:  

We need people to (1) help with the fundraiser (the food items) and also (2) help with the packing of boxes.   

You will be able to come and pack a box for a serviceman or woman!  We’d love to have lots of donations of items for the packing – especially “homemade items"
– seeing we are sending “A Touch of Home” to our Troops.  Check on the website for items to bring and also RECIPES for food items which travel well. 

Classic cars will be on display for people to look at.   We will have tables & chairs set up, books/photos to look through and we are praying for beautiful weather.

Remember to tell your friends and families about this event.  For those of you who are on Facebook/Twitter or wherever else – those are great places to get the message out.  List the times, place, and other info with would be needed for them to connect.  Please add our website and the church website to your invitations to people on line and ask them to share/forward the information.

Below is a brief synopsis – add more if you want or contact me and I will send you a complete notice which I’ve sent to some websites.   You can also go to either my facebook and “share” on your facebook or A Touch of Home to Overseas Military (a group). 

Thanks so MUCH for the HELP!  We are excited about the opportunities for people this year at the fundraiser and are praying for a great turn-out – and you can help us get the word out.  What a beautiful world we live in that God created!

Goodnight and God bless each of you,

Linda Lehrke


The Annual  “A Touch of Home” Fundraiser for our Overseas Military men and women will be held Saturday,  August 9th 10:30 am to 6 pm  and August 10th 11 am to 5 pm at Crossroads Church/Cottage Grove Campus.   Go to our website www.atouchofhomemn.com to sign-up to volunteer, to add a name to the list and learn about us.   Items to send, photos and information on our group are also available at http://www.crossroadschurch.cc/connect/missions/local-serving/woodbury/atoh/  

0 Comments

Christmas is “just around the corner” 

10/29/2013

0 Comments

 
. . .  how many times have we heard that.  Christmas, to Christians, is the celebration of Jesus of Nazareth’s birth.  Are you aware that since 1870, December 25th has been a federal holiday in the United States?  People around the world have been observing Christmas with traditions and practices that have been religious and secular; exchanging gifts, decorating Christmas trees, attending church, sharing meals with family & friends, waiting for Santa Claus and most precious of all – celebrating Christ’s birth.

 

Our emphasis for the November boxes (November 9th ) is to give our military overseas the true meaning of Christmas – a Savior born to give each of us eternal life!
 

We are focusing on two items for November:
 
1) Christmas cards and 


2) Delicious Pumpkin items

 
1)   Special request to all you who enjoy making homemade cards!

We are looking for additional Christmas cards to be made, so we can have ATOH volunteers and Crossroads community sign them.  
We will then include them in the December boxes so we do need them by November.

Please use the normal cardstock size – only fold them in half so we have lots of area for people to sign them inside.  You do not need to provide envelopes as they will be put in the boxes.   We would like to get around 64 to 70 cards so we have 3-4 per box. 

 
2)  Pumpkin items to fill the boxes with.  
We have always sent Pumpkin Bread, but this year, Helen has added some NEW and delicious pumpkin treat recipes on our web-site.  Please go to the web-site and pick a recipe, bake it and bring it to be packaged for someone far away from home for Christmas.  These will be put in the NOVEMBER boxes

 
Go to https://www.atouchofhome.us/pumpkin-bread-recipe.html 

Thank you so much -  we want to make Christmas memorable for those so far away from home.

0 Comments

Article from South Washington County Bulletin

9/25/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
Picture
0 Comments

South Washington County Bulletin September 25, 2013

9/25/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
0 Comments

Updates for A Touch of Home - reaching military overseas.   

9/7/2013

3 Comments

 
Packing for our Troops:   Our regular Packing Day is next week-end, September 14th starting at 9:30 a.m.   Hope to see many of you there.  Currently 12 – 13 on list.

Annual Fundraiser – IT’S THIS MONTH and we could use your help:   September 28thand 29th – Our Annual fundraiser to replenish our funds.  This year, we are setting up in the parking lot of Crossroads Church; 80th & Jamaica; Cottage Grove.  It’s going to be fun, as we will have plenty of room for people to park their cars, spend some time and look back over the last 10 years.  We will be serving Bonngard’s meats and they are excited to help us out.  Many of you know we have a lot of road construction at Keats Avenue and 70th Street, so this is a way we can help one of our local businesses maintain some business.   

You can sign up on the web-site   http://www.atouchofhome.us/2013-fund-raiser.html  (click on volunteer needs) or if you would like, you can sign up on the day of packing 9-14. 
 
Add to the list:  If you have the name of a military person, overseas, remember you can add their name on the web-site also.   http://www.atouchofhome.us/add-an-overseas-soldier.html

Prayer Needed:  Please remember and pray for our men and women in the military.  We have uncertain days ahead of us with the unrest in Syria and the Middle East.  All those in government could also use some prayers for wise decisions to be made.

Thanks again and if you have friends who would like to help out – be sure you contact them. 

3 Comments

    Author

    Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

    Archives

    November 2016
    August 2014
    October 2013
    September 2013

    Categories

    All
    Atoh
    Crossroads
    Military
    Troops

    RSS Feed