Kitchen tips: Dishwasher*oven*refrigerator*microwave
Before going to bed or after breakfast, use clorox clean-up with bleach on your counters and exterior appliance surfaces as directed, so that your kitchen will be clean, fresh and ready for the next time you use it.
Dishwasher
Offensive dishwasher odors can often be removed by simply running the wash cycle for 30 seconds to add water to the bottom of the washer. Then pour in 1 cup of baking soda and let it stand overnight, and restart it in the morning.
Oven
To tackle that brown-stained oven window, make a thick paste of water and baking soda. Apply to the inside of the window, leave for 10 to 15 minutes then scour with clean water.
Refrigerator
Vanilla Va-voom
Vanilla extract makes a great deodorizer for the fridge. Pour a little on a cotton ball and put it in a small dish or cup where it won’t be disturbed.
Microwave
Microwave Clean
To remove baked-on food more easily, simply fill a measuring cup full of water and sliced lemons and microwave until water boils, usually 3 minutes. The moisture makes old food easy to wipe clean.
Tee it up!
Tee it up
Got too many tee-shirts?
Don’t throw them out!
Cut them up and use them as lint-free dusters!
Towel tip
Avoid fabric softeners or dryer sheets when washing your towels.
They will coat terry fibers with silicone and render them less absorbent.
Dampen your dust!
Sprinkle a little water on your dustpan before using it. It’ll help prevent the dust and sweepings from falling out.
Operation Bandanas Order Form
OPERATION BANDANAS
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Neuse Baptist Association
WMU Mission Project
Church, Business or Organization
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Contact Person
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Day Phone ____________________________________________________
Evening Phone_________________________________________________
Email Address__________________________________________________
Mailing Address________________________________________________
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Shipping address (if applicable)_____________________________________
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________________Bandanas @ $3.50 = _$__________________
Personal signing or personal shipping
include shipping fee of $5.00 _$5.00_____________
total ___________________
Check all that apply:
_____________ Personal (Ship back to contact @ address above)
***be sure to add shipping and handling
************Be sure to check how many of each you want sent to you-
bandanas are colored according to the branch of service*********
_______ Air Force ______ Army ______Marine _______ Navy
________________Send Completely Packaged to Seymour Johnson AFB
________________We would like to sign the note cards that go in our packets.
The notecards will be sent to your address, you will sign the cards, and return
them to the Fayetteville address so they can be placed in the packages with the
bandanas. ****(Add an additional $5 for shipping and handling)*****
________________We would like to package our own bandanas.
The notecards and bandanas would arrive unfolded at your shipping address.
You would need to fold bandanas, put the bandana and cards in a ziplock or
Glad Sandwich bag. You would then need to ship them to the base.
_______________We would like to go to Fayetteville, NC to volunteer to fold
bandanas as a ministry project. Please contact us with available dates.
Make Checks Payable to : Operation Bandanas
Bulk rate: $3.50 per bandana
Mail Checks With Completed Form to:
Yvonne Deatherage P.O.Box 181 Pink Hill, NC 28572
For more information:
Inez Owens
919-738-1209
oiowens@bellsouth.net
Yvonne Deatherage
252-560-4073
yvonne@getyvonne.com
Operation Bandanas
The Neuse Baptist Associational WMU will be sponsoring “Operation Bandanas” as a missions project this year. We will be working with Mary Gray, the Founder of Operation Bandanas (a non-profit organization based out of Fayetteville, NC) and the Chaplains at Seymour Johnson to placing Psalm 91 Bandanas in the hands of the men and women deployed from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. These bandanas at a bulk rate of $3.50 each will serve many practical purposes for the military personnel while also providing the word of God to believers and planting seeds to the unbeliever. providing them with one extra piece of armor, the armor of God.
Operation Bandana began in November 2006, initially to cover our troops from Ft. Bragg, N.C. by a military wife and mother, Mary Gray. As the bandanas have gone out and word about this effort has spread, many soldiers, soldiers’ families and chaplains from other military installations have sought out the Psalm 91 bandanas through this effort. The mission has expanded to cover all of our military. The demand is far exceeding the supply.
Why Give Psalm 91 Bandanas? They are given to provide comfort, encouragement, peace and strength through God’s Word. They are also a tangible item our men and women in the military can see as support and appreciation from the very people they are determined to protect. With God’s word printed on the bandana, the hope is there to make a kingdom difference in the lives of these men and women.
How can you become involved in this ministry?
With Seymour Johnson being in our own back yard, the ladies of the Neuse Baptist Association wanted to be sure bandanas are in the hands of the men and women being deployed locally. We are asking businesses, churches (regardless of denomination), individuals, youth groups, Scouts, a school or a classroom, etc to please join us in our effort to get a bandana in the hands of each man and woman deployed from SJAFB. Support the men and women who are defending us by providing them with this small token of kindness.It’s so simple. Decide to support out military, have a yard sale or doughnut sale, etc. to raise money, place a jar in the office or cafeteria to drop change in, yes it will add us and send us your donation in a check or money order made out to “Operation Bandana”. We can send you the cards that are included with each bandanas so that you can add a personal note on the card and then we will see that those cards are included in the bandanas you have purchased.
“What better time to give a donation to Operation Bandanas than the month of November as we remember our veterans on Veterans Day. A gift to “Operation Bandanas” in honor of or in memory of a veteran, both past and present, would be a fine tribute to them. Perhaps your church and/or missions organization would promote our mission throughout October and November, receive an offering on the Sunday preceding or following Veterans Day. And as we celebrate Thanksgiving in November, giving a gift of thanks to those serving in uniform would be appreciated more than we’ll ever know.”–Mary Gray
We are partnering with Mary in her efforts but for the bandanas to be sent to SJAB, we have compiled a form that can be obtained by visiting getyvonne.com or by emailing one of the people at then end of the article as we will be responsible for insuring the bandanas are sent from this base. When ordered straight through Mary, the bandanas will be sent to her waiting list and not through our SJAFB project.
For more information, on Operation Bandana, you can visit the website: www.operationbandanas.org. but to help with our project, please contact Yvonne Deatherage at 252-560-4073 or through email yvonne@getyvonne.com.
Donations for the purchase of the bandanas will be greatly appreciated.
Bulk rate:$3.50 per bandana.
Donations: Checks are to be payable to: Operation Bandanas
Mail checks and/or forms to: Yvonne Deatherage, POBox 181 Pink Hill, NC 28572
Happy Independence Day!
Among all the weekend celebrations and vacations, I wonder just how many people really know why they are celebrating this day? The Declaration of Independence was officially adopted on July 4, 1776.
The Declaration of Independence is a symbol of our independence from Great Britain but also a commitment to certain ideals and ways of governing. It was agreed that all men were created equal by God and that those governing were to have only so much power and were to govern based on the wants of the people.
Our country has come so far left to what our forefathers had fought and bravely died for. Our government has forsaken the ideals and values the country was founded on, the government has decided to apply their power to all facets of our live and without permission. What happened to limited powers and based on the desires of the people? I keep coming back to the scripture 2 Chronicles 7:14, “if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” Praying this daily as I see the United States as not the nation we once were.
Happy Birthday, America!