We wished to reveal our wholehearted thankfulness to SNGA volunteer and donor Connie Bergeron, who will be transferring to South Carolina to be closer to household.

” Connie brings happiness to the storage facility in addition to her contributions,” stated long time SNGA volunteer Stacy “Mac” McIlwain. “Connie has fascinating stories behind her contributions, whether it’s a great sale, or things she can’t picture living without. She genuinely thinks that everybody deserves self-respect.”

Connie, who resides in East Cobb, learnt about us by utilizing the online search tool for Hands on Atlanta Day in 2015. Her contributions as a volunteer, along with those of her other half Ron, have actually been exceptionally practical for a host of SNGA programs, including My Birthday Matters, Spirit of Christmas and Easy Home Requirements, stated Brenda Rhodes, SNGA President and Creator.

” Ron has actually assisted us by offering on Hands on Atlanta Days and doing things like putting shelving together at our Marietta storage facility,” Brenda stated. “And in addition to Connie’s interest and dedication, her organizational abilities have actually been important.”

A Qualified Fulfilling Specialist, Connie runs Website Choice Solutions, Inc. The worldwide service needs eager attention to information: It is accountable for the site-selection and legal settlements of more than 200 conferences every year on behalf of business customers and trade and not-for-profit associations.

In addition to arranging and arranging contributions at the storage facility, Connie states she has actually significantly taken pleasure in dealing with kids throughout our volunteer days.

” Among my outright favorites is when groups are available in and they have kids with them and I get to motivate the youths to compose birthday cards for My Birthday Matters,” she stated. “I’ll get them arranged with building and construction paper, sticker labels, crayons and markers– and assist evidence their spelling! I truly take pleasure in the imagination and the vibrant works of their creativity. I have actually done that for hours at a time. It is extremely enjoyable.”

However Connie has actually likewise made huge contributions to our Easy Home Requirements program by strolling the aisles of Walmart and other shops to discover deals on cooking area trash bin, brand-new pots and pans, bed and bath linens and other products required by these customers.

In addition, Connie has actually composed huge amounts of SNGA vacation welcoming and donor thank-you cards and has actually supported the work of fellow SNGA volunteers like Jan Lazzara, who makes numerous no-sew blankets for the My Birthday Matters kids. “I wished to support her efforts, due to the fact that what Jan does is truly amazing, it was an enjoyment to provide her a present card to JoAnne’s for the products for 30 or 40 blankets,” Connie stated.

Connie and Ron have actually offered their energy and time with numerous other neighborhood companies consisting of Household Guarantee of Cobb County. Connie served on Hands on Atlanta’s board from 2012 to 2019, and she and Ron are 36-year members of St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church in Marietta.

” We’re active volunteers with St. Catherine’s,” Connie stated. “When times are regular, we welcome, usher, serve coffee, lemonade and cookies, do altar guild and bake communion bread. I collaborate the church’s participation most years with the Atlanta Neighborhood Food Bank’s Appetite Walk/Run, along with the church’s participation with the Cobb Interfaith Environment Union. This year CIHC commemorates twenty years of structure Environment houses with an ideal slogan, ‘We Develop to Coexist, We Exist Together to Develop.'”

In addition, Connie and Ron are long time volunteers with MUST Ministries. “On the 28th of monthly for about the previous 35 years, we have actually collaborated supper for about 70 citizens of the homeless shelter in addition to terrific volunteers from St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church, with unique thanks to Tracy Buckalew, my co-chair,” Connie stated.

About 7 years back, Connie began St. Catherine’s ministry of offering supper for The Extension females’s center on the 3rd Sunday of monthly. “Marlene and Lee Stuart and Deborah Weigel with St. Catherine’s have actually presumed coordination of those suppers, and Ron and I supply meals once a quarter. It is a terrific synergy.”

Making good friends with volunteers and board members has actually been among the benefits of offering for SNGA, Connie states. “I can’t inform you what an honor it has actually been to learn more about Brenda. She is among the most motivating leaders of a not-for-profit I have actually ever seen. Her devotion to discovering an automobile for conference such a variety of individuals’s requirements is amazing.”

Thanks a lot when again to Connie and Ron for their incredible assistance of SNGA!

” We’re sorry to hear that Connie and Ron are moving and will miss their kind spirit,” Brenda stated, “however we want them all the very best in this brand-new chapter in their lives.”