Chicktime San Antonio

Vineyard location ….
If you are able please drop by and let’s support Boysville!

Our September workshop has been planned !
It’s going to be a wonderful morning planting seeds of love and watching them bloom!

What a great Chicktime Saturday with the teen girls who live at Boysville Children’s Home!
We decorated agendas / journals so the girls could use them as they start back to school!
Composition folders , Scrapbook paper,Washi tape, Inspirational stickers, Modge Podge Craft Glue and Sponge brushes were all supplies that helped the girls create beautiful books !
Co- leader and Workshop Leader , Letty Rodela, talked to the girls about goal setting by using Olympic athletes and their training as examples to goal setting …
and our wonderful volunteer, Mrs. Sylvia ( a school teacher) helped reinforce how writing down goals and steps to achieve them in our new journals / agendas can lead to success!
Our morning snack of fresh watermelon, pineapple and cantaloupe ( with tajin) was spot on! If the girls needed a little extra something-they also had cheez-its and rice crispy treats with various juices and water bottles to choose from…. Yummy!

Thank you to all the volunteers who showed up this morning as without you there is no way we can do this…
Month after month!
It’s an honor and privilege to be the village for these precious girls!
Hope to see you next month! We will be decorating flower pots and planting succulents!
Much love,
Annette, Donnette and Letty
Chicktime San Antonio Leadeship Teaam

The Chicktime Mission is a grassroots movement and our hope has always been to have a Chicktime Chapter in every Women and Children's Home or Shelter. We are so excited that there is a new charity partner in San Antonio and they want a chapter. They came looking for us....not us looking for them! We are praying we find a sister leadership team to partner with them!

August has been planned! Don’t miss the fun!

It was a Sweet Saturday at Boysville as we practiced our cupcake decorating skills hosted by our workshop leader, Annette Goodson. The girls worked on 2 different designs. The first was a marshmallow flower design where they cut marshmallows in half, dipped the sticky part in colored sugar and arranged them into flower petals. They turned out beautiful! The second design was a teddy bear's day at the beach. They iced the cupcakes in blue frosting to create water and then put graham cracker crumbs on half to create a sand beach. They put a Teddy Graham into an inner tube (gummy Lifesaver) and cut beach towels out of striped Sour Strip candy so one of their bears could lay out on the beach. They then topped it off with a beach umbrella. The cupcakes all turned out so cute!

We had a great time bonding with the teens and talking to them about their summer activities. Special thanks for our volunteers: Bindu, Geneva, Susan and Angelica for helping.

We look forward to another fun activity next month!

Did you know there are many ways ( in addition to Chicktime workshops) to volunteer at Boysville?
During the week, seasonal holiday parties and functions , specific projects and programs…
Chicktime Leaders Annette and Donnette helped with a Boysville Summer Camp on Monday called Camp Wild Beast! We worked the fun food station and helped the kids make chocolate dipped cones with sprinkles and filled them with yogurt and fresh fruit! Yummy!!
Visit Boysville website to find out how you can sign up to volunteer for one of their many events!
They need us! It takes a village!

Chicktime San Antonio Co-Leadwr, Annette Goodson, is our workshop leader this month! For those that know her know she is a master baker so this workshop is so her!! She is actually leading the activity for another local chapter too! What a blessing!

The Leadership teams from Chicktime San Antonio and Chicktime San Antonio Central met together at a local winery over lunch to support each other on our joint mission…
To serve the hurt children in San Antonio and surrounding areas!
Our luncheon began with sharing a charcuterie board and a meatball appetizer while engaging in a fun conversational ice breaker led by Letty Rodela ! We also indulged in two different wood burning oven pizzas- Margherita and Prosciutto! Sooooo Good!
Over lunch, Donnette Tyler led us in discussion on ways to intentionally pour into our chapters by supporting each other, our workshop leaders and charity partners( Boysville Children’s Home and RMYA- The Bridge .
The beautiful thing about our gathering was just being with like minded women who want to make a difference in the life of children and youth who can’t live safely in their own homes! If you can read our t-shirts…
Remember your why… this was ours…
We refuse to sit back and do nothing!
Yummy thanks to Annette Goodson for baking Milky Way Cupcakes 🧁 for dessert!
What a blessing to be part of this sisterhood!

Our “Roll The Dice” June workshop was super fun!
We played a take on the Christmas White Elephant Game using dice! A picture of the actual game is posted! The gifts were varied from candy, lip gloss , lotion . face and lip masks to a teen Bible, clip on lamp for reading , Chic- Fil- A gift card. and a journal and pen!
We love spoiling the girls! The girls enjoyed the game and it was a blessing to watch them really get into it!

We also served breakfast tacos and juice to top off the fun morning and prayed to close our time together!

Join us anytime!
All our love and for HIS glory,
Annette, Donnette and Letty
The Chicktime San Antonio Leadership Team

Our hearts 💞 are full and we are grateful!

This Saturday one of our sister Chicktime Chapter’s charity partners - RMYA needs us!
They have 8 apartments they are fixing up for young adults who are part of their transitional living program ( aging out of foster care and/ or avoid being homeless or have been sexually exploited)…
They have everything purchased… they just need help setting everything thing up! If you are available this Saturday please contact Krystal( co - leader of Chicktime San Antonio Central for details at - 210-867-1386!
What a blessing you would be!! Tell her you heard the need from me 😍!

Bring on summer with us!

Hebrews 13:16 ~ "And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased."

Our monthly workshop with the teen girls who live at Boysville Children’s Home had a lot of laughs, friendly competition , a smorgasbord of snacks ( chips and dips, skittles, donut holes, peanut butter crackers, fruit, Gatorade ) great conversation and sooooooooo much love! The prizes of bath and body lotions and sprays, face masks, games, journal and pen … made the girls have to be timed when picking their prize after winning a bingo game! They just couldn’t decide! Their excitement over our time together is the reason we come back month after month! I over heard two of our new volunteers ask the girls about Chicktime and the girls could tell them in depth about our past workshops and what they did… and how much fun “the ladies” always make it!

Thank you to this months workshop leaders-
Anna, Monica , Seli and Shannon! Chicktime San Antonio is so grateful you always say yes to take on leading a month each year! You are a blessing!

As always we circled up to end our time together in prayer…. And it’s just so special when one of the girls volunteers to say it! Today was that day!

The girls were also gifted with goodie bags filled with snacks to take back to their cottages by the workshop leaders! An extra blessing!

We would love you to join us one month! And if you are not able-
Pray for the precious girls we get to serve at Boysville … and all the Chicktime Chapters that serve in Children’s Homes and shelters here locally, in Texas and in other states who also show up month after month to make a difference!

Mark your calendars for a few hours of FUN!!!

Move over Giada, we have some new celebrity chefs in the making! Kelly Hoog lead a cooking class where the teens at Boysville learned how to make chicken fettuccine Alfredo, scrumptious garlic cheese bread and an Italian salad. They learned proper knife handling skills as well as other cooking tips and tricks. The best part was getting to sit down and have lunch together sampling the delicious meal they prepared. Kelly also brought some heavenly fudge brownies and confetti cookies for dessert. In addition to learning great life skills, the girls had a fun time. Thank you to all of our fabulous volunteers that showed up to help us be a blessing to the girls at Boysville.

We just got through babysitting babies at the Emergency shelter on the campus of Boysville Children’s Home so staff could get some necessary training! It feels good to help out!

Did you know there are many ways you can help Boysville in addition to serving with Chicktime?!

Check out the link and find out how!

It takes a village! Be part of it!

https://boysvilletexas.org/volunteer/

We aren’t sure how many years our dear sweet and faithful workshop leader, Kelly, has been coming year after year to cook with the girls… But we know it’s always yummy and the girls always enjoy themselves! We can’t wait to see what she will be cooking up next!!




We are sad that we are unable to host a workshop at Boysville this month due to all of the fun spring break activities the kids have scheduled. But, we wanted to let the girls know we are still thinking about them. Thanks to contributions from our many wonderful volunteers, we were able to get a little treat along with a pretty Easter card for each of the cottages we work with.

We are so grateful for each of you who support our mission!

It was a chilly morning to spark inspiration and creativity even if it meant getting a little messy at our February workshop with the teen girls who live at Boysville Children’s Home!
Balloons, glue, yarn and patience produced these fun creations to keep or share!
We know the girls are very creative and love to paint so we encouraged them to paint with yarn instead of paintbrushes for a new experience. Some embraced this challenge and some preferred their brushes. Regardless, their morning was filled with fun, conversation, and music. Thank you to our volunteers for joining us this morning. We hope you enjoyed it, and we hope to see you again soon!

Come make a difference with us! Our workshops help heal the wounds of the teen girls who live at Boysville Children’s Home.

If you are new to volunteering at Boysville….
Please fill out their volunteer application and let’s get you approved to love where you live!!

https://boysvilletexas.org/volunteer-application-form/

Chicktime San Antonio kicked off the new year with a focus on fitness at Boysville Children’s Home. Fitness instructor, Mary Coronado, and her PiYo class hosted the January workshop. Mary led the teen girls who live at Boysville Children’s Home through various yoga poses and Pilates moves while volunteers demonstrated and assisted while working out alongside them. Pretty soon the teens were showing off their flexibility and having a great time! Volunteers then made various flavors of smoothies which were a huge hit for snack along with Kind bars and granola bites. All the girls and volunteers alike seemed to have a great time. We all counted our blessings as one of the girls led us in heartfelt prayer at the end.
Chicktime San Antonio…. Spreading love one workshop at a time!

Chicktime San Antonio Leadership Team ( Donnette, Annette and Letty)…
gathered for dinner last week to celebrate Annette’s retirement, Letty’s birthday and talk a little Chicktime business and pray for our 2024 workshops and workshop leaders this year!

We have to pinch ourselves that we get to lead this chapter together and we get to serve with each of you!
Here’s to Chicktime San Antonio and a new year serving the teen girls who live at Boysville!

3rd Saturday of each month… 10:00am!! Hope to see you one month!

All for HIS glory!

Here comes 2024 and we can’t wait! We have so much love planned for our monthly workshops!
Hope we see you one month!

Our Annual Chicktime San Antonio Christmas Stocking Celebration at Boysville Children's Home was an afternoon filled with so much love !
It is always a joy to be able to purchase Christmas gifts for the two girls cottages that come to our monthly Chicktime activities and the reason we can is because year after year our volunteers like you say yes to helping us make this happen!
The girls love hosting us in their "homes". They have a party food spread and one of the cottages even made us homemade salsa and whipped cream!
We delivered lots of tablets, led lights , posters, jewelry, squishy pillows, clothing , games/ toys, gift cards and so much more!!
We received back lots of hugs, giggles, joy ,gratitude and wide eyes as the girls patiently opened up their MANY presents! This included hot pink duffel bags and Chicktime luggage tags. Now we know when the girls leave Boysville... they do not have to use a trash bag for their belongings!

We loved playing charades and covering the girls in prayer.
This year was extra special because
we got to see Boysville Christmas
pageant that had been absent during Covid!
We love making memories with our girls and thankful and humbled by our volunteers generosity.

Extra thanks to Chicktime San Antonio Co-leader, Letty Rodela and two of our most faithful volunteers, Eva Irwine and Geneva Hudel for leading the event! You three are so special and are true angels here on earth!

Merry Christmas Chicktime San Antonio. We hope to see you at one of our monthly workshops! We guarantee your heart will forever be changed!

❤️💚❤️💚,
Annette ,Donnette and Letty

Last night was Boysville Children’s Home annual North Star Mall Christmas Shopping trip for the kids on campus!
A special family - The Wheeler family …
has continued sponsoring this tradition each year with the boys and girls.
The event needs volunteers to help the kids shop and our very own Chicktime San Antonio Co- Leader, Letty Rodela, was able to help and represent Chicktime San Antonio!
She shopped with a 9 year sweet precious little girl! The picture is some of the things the little girl purchased! Can you imagine how exciting getting to go to the mail and given money to spend all for yourself!

There are so many ways to get involved at Boysville! Chicktime is one of them, but please visit their website and find out the others!
It takes a village!

♥️

Have a very Merry Christmas!

Chicktime San Antonio Leadership Team showed up this evening to celebrate the Thanksgiving Season with the teen girls who live at Boysville Children’s Home. Our November Chicktime workshop always falls when the girls are starting Thanksgiving break. Some of the girls are not on campus due to the holiday. ….
So ….
to spend time and honor all of the girls we showed up tonight. Generous Chicktime supporters helped us cater a meal from Macaroni Grill! Salad, Lasagna , Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo and yummy bread. Chicktime Co-leader , Annette, baked homemade peanut butter cookies with chocolate kisses and red velvet cake pops!
Chicktime co- leader, Donnette, decorated the tables with Thanksgiving themed plates and napkins along with fresh flowers in mason jars ! One table had a basket of pumpkins as it’s centerpiece ! The girls and staff were gifted with hand lotion placed in clear treat bags tied with pretty fall ribbon! They were displayed with the place settings!
Chicktime Co-Leader, Letty, spoke to the girls about the difference between being thankful and being grateful! It was a sweet conversation.

Overall, it was a beautiful evening and we can’t tell you enough how grateful we are for those who help us do things like this when we can’t meet with the girls on one of our “normal” Chicktime Saturdays!

A handful of the girls walked in and said… wow! How fancy! Some of the girls went back for seconds and thirds and all indulged on the desserts! 🧡🧡🧡🧡

We hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving.

God bless you all!!

Annette, Donnette and Letty
Chicktime San Antonio Leadership Team



Tonight Chicktime San Antonio Leadership Team was presented a check for $2,5oo dollars from the Frost Bank For Good Fund on behalf of the New Bruanfels Community Foundation !
We were so honored that our chapter was nominated by one of our faithful volunteers, Eva Irwine, who has seen first hand the impact the chapter makes serving the teenage girls who are placed at Boysville Children’s Home!
We are so humbled we were chosen to receive the funds and feeling extra blessed that Eva was able to present us with the check herself this evening!
Oh the extra love and attention the girls are going to get in 2024!!!
So exciting!

Thanks for sharing in our excitement!
Annette, Donnette and Letty