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Sam's Baseball Team Raffle July 4th

If anyone is really into the Orioles or the Tampa Bay Devil Rays or just wants to see a live baseball game up close and personal (bring your baseball glove), Sam's baseball team is raffling off tickets to raise funds for its 11U Savage Spirit Travel Baseball Team. The winner will receive 4 tickets to the July 20th 7:05 pm game in Section 12 Row 6 on the 1st base line as well as one parking pass so you do not have to walk 2 miles from the Ravens stadium! These are corporate seats at the stadium donated to us for the raffle from Pepsi Company.

The ticket donation is $5 per ticket or $20 for 6 tickets. Our drawing date will be Sunday July 4th at our Rockville 4th of July tournament. You will be notified that night if you won.

Thanks for supporting Sam's team! If you want a raffle ticket please contact Carole W. at csiwiedorfer@verizon.net

Updates 7/8/09

Sam did it again!!!

At Camden Yards yesterday he participated in the team championship level (3rd level as he had already won the 1st 2) of a pitch hit and run contest. He came in 1st place of 4 contestants in his 9-10 age group. He did an awesome job of pitching which is the real point-maker in this type of competition. His hitting was great too and he broke his own speed record in running the bases. We do not know yet if he goes to St. Loius, MO mid-July for the MLB All-Stars game and Natinal Level of Pitch Hit and Run competition. Sam's scores are now compared with lots of other 1st place winners across the country and only the highest 3 get to go. But it was a thrill for him to be playing at Camden Yards today on the real field and he his very proud of himself.

Thanks to all who have and continue to support my son and his sports ambition. -- Carole

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Big Shoutout to Ian Brown who played in the orchestra at the Meyerhoff this May!

Updated 7/7/09

Kudos to Drew Fisher

Updated 2/1/09

Drew on his own collected $83.92 to be donated to his new friends in Ghana. Drew is a Kindergartner at St. Paul's Sunday School - as part of a school project Drew collected the money all on his own and presented it to Miss Debbie last Sunday!! Great Job Drew!!

January 18, 2009

TODAY WE WELCOME REV. JAYNAN CLARK EGLAND
The Rev. Jaynan ClarkEgland, president of the Word Alone Network ( areform and renewal group in the ELCA) will be our guest preacher on January 18.The Word Alone Network is having a meeting the day before, and a number of its directors are preaching at area churches.Her most recent charge was at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Spokane, Washington, where she was co-pastor with her husband. Rev. Egland is an eloquent and dynamic preacher , and we areto have her as our guest preacher!

January 18,2009

Ian and Karl Brown

Thanks go today to these young players who are sharing their musical talents as part of our worship.

Ian has made the MD All State Junior Band, Karl is a member of the Howard County Middle School Honors Band. Congratulations to the both of them!

The Invention they are playing together is one of 15 which Bach wrote as teaching pieces and they are a real challenge. The piece demonstrates a real give and take between the two performers.

Update 12/14/08

We are all Proud of Sam

Another AWESOME game was played today by Sam's team, the Columbia Ravens. They played the GORC Wildcats (Gambrills-Odenton Rec Council) and creamed them 40-0. Unbelievable!!! The Ravens had not played a game in almost a month and it was like nothing to them today - they were truly a professional, well-practiced and ready-to-win-this-game team!!

We are all VERY excited about the opportunity to go to M&T stadium on Dec 20th. The players can't wait to play on the real Ravens' football field. What an honor and joy for them!! Thaey have worked very hard for this and it has paid off. They are going into this final State championship game with a 14-0 record. They will play Overlea who is ranked 1st in the state. But after what we have seen consistently with the Ravens over this entire football season, I am not sure Overlea stands a chance!!

The game is at 10:30am as we know it now. Rumor has it that parking is free, the stadium is open to the public to come to these games, and you can buy your tickets at the stadium that day. When I have more info I will pass it along.

GO ALL THE WAY, RAVENS!!

Carole

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As many of you already know, Sam's football team, the Columbia Ravens 7-9 National Division, clinched the Mid-Maryland Youth Football League Superbowl title on Saturday, beating the Western Howard County Warhawks 22-16. It was the most exciting game of the season as the Warhawks were always at the heels of the Ravens and it went down to the last few seconds of the game to actually determine the winner. The Ravens went the entire season (9-0) and playoffs (3-0) undefeated which I find absolutely remarkable. Sam and I are still in shock as to how all this turned out for him given that he had never played tackle football before. He is very proud of himself and is wearing his medal almost everywhere right now.

In addition, the Ravens sent 4 of 5 National age groups to the finals this weekend and ALL 4 took the Superbowl championships for their group!! This is a remarkable organization and I highly recommend it if your son or daughter or other child wants to play tackle football.

The Ravens now advance to the Maryland State level championship play. The first game will be Saturday, December 6 playing some unknown team, somewhere in Howard County, at sometime of the day. We may not know the full details until after Thanksgiving.

Thanks to all who have supported us through this, especially my sister Donna who took care of various kids at various times so I could be in 2 places at once with 2 active kids!!

Enjoy the championship pics.

Carole