July 2013 Project

Making hygiene kits

 Coloring Pages

 Making bracelets

 Hat loom

 Making bracelets 

July Project

This Saturday is our next Serving With Smiles Project.  Please join us!

• Saturday, July 20
• 9:00 AM
• LDS Chapel at 2181 North Harvest Moon Drive
• Suggested donations are $5/person or $10/family - thank you!
• Remember to remind your friends to come.  The more, the merrier!

Mark your calendars now for the rest of this summer's SWS dates:

August 17 

September 21

February Project

Thanks to everyone that came!  We had a great turnout and a great time too!

November Project is Cancelled!

Unfortunately we have to cancel our November project. 
Please plan on coming to our December 15th project!

October Project

 Thanks to H. Butler for coming and organizing the school kits!

About our special project coming up in May

Click on this flyer above to see all the nitty gritty details of our May project.

You will not be disappointed!  

It's Serving With Smiles 5th Anniversary Celebration!

Take note, we're combining with 2 other SWS chapters and we're all meeting at

Shelley Elementary 602 N. 200 W. American Fork

Saturday May 19th from 9-10:30am.

Our Group at the April 2012 Project

Another fun project in the books!

Doing Awesome Things in Our Community

 Bringing blankets and kits to the American Red Cross and to Catholic Community Services

 We brought lots of smiles to lots of people

Thanks so much to everyone who attended our project in March!

If you weren't able to make it, we hope to see you on
Saturday, April 21 at 9:00 am.

Hygiene kits, baby kits, and blankets will be delivered soon to those in need.

We have 50 blankets that you helped sew and tie that will be going to the American Red Cross.

They use blankets in time of emergency.

About 100 hygiene kits will be delivered along with 80 baby kits (that you assembled) to Catholic Community Services in down town Salt Lake City.

Catholic Community Services helps immigrant families as well as low income and homeless members of the community.

We are so happy to have your help every month.

Thanks for spending some time serving those in need.

We can do great things when we work together!

Serving with smiles

DON'T BE A GRINCH

“You don't need to be an agent to join this organization!”-Hoops & Yoyo

"WE LOOOOVE saving the world!"-CHARITY (the cutest baby on earth)

Serving with smiles is inviting you to join with them in helping the world! Find a location near you, and start saving the world.

2012 Resolution

Make a resolution this year to make it out to our projects more often! Our numbers have dwindled a bit. Help us out and come have a great time with us too!

Our next project is Saturday Jan. 21, at 9am.

Summer's over and time to get back to Serving!

Hope you all had a great Summer!
Our next project is coming up and we hope you're all excited to get back to serving with us! In the meantime, take advantage of all those back to school supply deals out there to bring to donate at our next project. We'll use those for school kits later for kids that need our help.

See you September 17th!

March Project

We did so well this week! Congrats to everyone! We have a new project director. We would love to thank her! The new bead frogs are a hit but are a little complicated! Last time I think we had some new visitors! We learned more about the places our stuff goes. It was so touching to see people we had made happy. Retiring elders, homeless families, Ethiopian orphans, and so many more. We made so much for them this week! I'm so happy for all the people we get to help. We made 3 fuzzy warm fleece blankets, 3 cute bead frogs, 2 fierce bead geckos, 19 colorful pictures, 16 fuzzy scarves, 31 adorable bracelets, and 60 baby kits. The baby kits were our special projects. We made them for babies who are born needing supplies to be taken care of with. We put in lots of stuff like baby powder, 2 fuzzy towels, soap, etc. (for each bag). It was happy to think of all the babies that would get help! I hope everyone can come next time (the sidebar has our next date). Please come and help your fellow friends with a wondrous work to save the world, a couple people at a time!

Serving With Smiles goes to Ethiopia!

Hello! My name is Amanda, and I am a guest blogger today on the SWS Blog. We had another great Serving With Smiles project this last Saturday. Lots of great kids showed up and lots of great things were accomplished. Thanks everyone! Hope to see you next time around!
I wanted to come on here and tell you a little bit about my experience taking the Serving With Smiles bracelets and Geckos to Ethiopia just a few weeks ago. My husband I traveled to Addis Ababa (that's the capital city of Ethiopia,) to appear in court for the finalization of our adoption of two beautiful children there.
We took with us on our trip lots of bracelets and geckos that our sweet Serving with Smiles children made here in Saratoga Springs Utah. We were able to deliver them to 3 different orphanages where the children absolutely loved them! They were thrilled!
I can't post pictures of the full faces of orphans that are not my own children here, so I've only included these two photos so you can get a little bit of an idea.
That's our son in this photo below! See how happy this gecko made him?! He's a serious boy, so it was so nice to see this nice big smile out of him! :)
We thought the children there would like these bracelets and geckos, but we didn't know that they were gonna go nuts over them! It made them so happy!!! What surprised us even more, is that the boys liked the bracelets too. The girls liked the geckos too. The adults all wanted bracelets! They wanted all the babies to have bracelets. These were a hit!

I will tell you a little story I like to call
"The miracle of the Serving With Smiles Bracelets."
Here's how it goes in a nutshell...
We take over two large ziplock bags with SWS bracelets and geckos in them. We think we need to be careful and ration these out carefully there in Ethiopia. We visit 3 orphanages and find that everyone, and we mean everyone in those orphanages want a bracelet! We don't have the heart to turn anyone down at all. So we give them all out. Guess what? Still there are bracelets left!
We decide we have enough left over to give some out to children on the streets. We do that for a few days. Guess what? STILL bracelets left over!
Finally, the last day we are left with a bag that is still about half way full of bracelets! How did this happen?!
We are getting ready to head to the airport. We give out bracelets to all the children we see around us on the street. No kids left. Still about 12 bracelets!
Suddenly a man honks his horn to get our attention. He hops out of his truck. He had watched us giving these out and was hoping he could get one too. We give him the rest of the bag and encounter no more children. We like to imagine him taking those home to his family who probably loved them. What a funny story hu?

Thanks for all your work you little humanitarians! You made lots and lots and lots of Ethiopians happy!

When we go back to Ethiopia in about a month, we'll be bringing your hygeine kits you made. Thanks so much! You're gonna make a lot more smiles with all that serving you have done. We really appreciate you!

January 2011 Project

Some of our projects!

The quilt almost completed! (and now it is!)

Making geckos!

Hard at work!

As you can tell from the pictures above, everything is going wonderfully but don't get the idea we couldn't use your help! We successfully made 5 Winter hats (which are so cute and will be put to good use!), 1 quilt (what an accomplishment!), 2 fleece blankets (warm!), 6 bead geckos (so cool!), 39 bracelets (wow!), 23 scarves (amazing!), and finally, 39 happy pictures (perfectly colored).We also made hygiene kits. I am proud to congratulate the many people that showed up and helped. As for where the things are going: The geckos and bracelets are for several orphanages in Ethiopia. They will be brought there by my mom (no, I'm not going!). The pictures are going to a retirement center for the elderly. It was a great week and remember to come next time!

Serving With Smiles Visits the Maliheh Clinic

We donated winter hats, gloves, bracelets & geckos and some toys we’ve collected.

People go to this clinic when they can’t afford to go to a regular clinic.

The doctors and nurses give our donations to the kids that come in to help them not be scared, and to keep them warm when they leave. 100’s of doctors, nurses, dentists and other people come work there for free in their spare time.

Crossroads Journal

We got into the newspaper! It was great. They talked about some of our leaders, Jennifer Paulson, my mom, and me (though I'm not a leader but I do like doing our blog). It was a great article about what we do and all the kids that help out to make cool things for people in need. I think it even mentioned how we have guest humanitarians every project and how anyone can get in! It really helped people see how good Serving with Smiles is!

Trip to the Food Bank

Some of the Serving With Smiles kids at the Food Bank!

Notice!

For our project on December 18th we will meet at a different building than usual. It's very close by. The address is 270 W Harvest Hills Blvd. This is the church building that is left at the first roundabout coming into Harvest Hills. Our next project will be on January 22, and we will meet in our regular building.