Fall Katy ServeFest 2011- God Answers Prayer

By Randy Carter Katy ServeFest Project Manager, Member of The Fellowship at Cinco Ranch Fall 2011 Katy Servefest Slide Show from The Fellowship at Cinco Ranch on Vimeo. Saturday, September 24, was a very special day for some disadvantaged people in the heart of old Katy.  That was the day they were recipients of help [...]

Belhaven University Gives Back to KISD Kids

Belhaven University is responding to our current economic crisis by providing 1,000 filled back packs to KISD residents in zip codes 77494, 77084, 77450, 77449, 77493, 77079   Date: August 13th starting at 8:00 am Location: 15115 Park Row , Houston, TX 77084 (Behind Sam’s Club) Bring: Photo ID and proof of residence (ex: Drivers [...]

2010 Volunteer of the Year

Compassion Katy is pleased to announce Melissa Williams as the Compassion Katy 2010  Volunteer of the Year. Melissa has been volunteering from a very early age.  As a young girl, she assisted her grandparents on weekly trips delivering food to shut in senior citizens with Meals on Wheels, she has been an active volunteer in [...]

Thank You for Making Katy ServeFest 2011 Our Best Event Ever

2011 Katy Servefest Slideshow from The Fellowship at Cinco Ranch on Vimeo. Compassion Katy’s 2011 Katy ServeFest was our best work event ever! Thanks to the 400 volunteers over multiple weekends, we were able to bless our community with more than $43,000 in volunteer labor value! We appreciate each and every volunteer that came out [...]

Cheers to Volunteers!

Katy ServeFest 2010 was an huge success, but we couldn’t have done it without our awesome volunteers.  There were many hard working volunteers at both sites on both weekends, but we would like to honor a specific volunteer from the Katy YMCA Camp Cinco site as our Spring Cheers to Volunteers award winner. Curtiss Walker, [...]

Thanks a Million!

It is with heartfelt thanks we say thank you to all of our many volunteers and supporters. Over two weekends almost 600 volunteers came out to give their time and talents, representing over 4,000 volunteer hours. We had volunteers from Brenham, Beaumont, The Woodlands, Lufkin, Houston, Sugar Land and many other towns. We also thank [...]

Carnival Outreach

October 8th, 2009,  the Fellowship at Cinco Ranch hosted a dinner for the carnival workers from the Rice Harvest Festival.  Last year when the carnival was in in town for the Rice Harvest Festival, one lady was touched and thought “unseen and forgotten”.  Her heart ached for a year wondering how she could help touch [...]

Katy Servefest 2009 YMCA Camp Cinco Update

My name is Alyssa Miller and I am the Summer Intern for Compassion Katy. This has been my first Katy ServeFest experience, and WOW! I cannot even begin to tell you how amazed I am at how wonderful our volunteers were this past weekend at YMCA’s Camp Cinco. Over the course of Saturday and Sunday, [...]

Katy Servefest 2009 Krause Center Update

God is so good!  We completed ALL of the projects that we had on our list for the Krause Center!  26 people from 3 area churches worked together on July 25, 2009 to make a huge impact on the Krause Center and their kids.  Volunteers were painting, power washing, organizing the library and wiring and installing speakers [...]

Volunteers in Bloom: Giving and Growing Literacy Council of Fort Bend County Honors Tutors

The tutors of the Literacy Council of Fort Bend are the lifeblood of the Council; therefore, they were honored for their dedication to helping another person learn to become functionally literate through basic literacy, ESL or GED instruction.  These tutors were honored at the 2009 Tutor Appreciation Brunch held Saturday, April 25, 2009 at Pecan [...]

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