Faith’s Lodge

Silpada Fundraiser

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Melissa is very generously donating her time and profit to our organization again this year.

Our fundraiser open house will be on Friday, February 10, 2012 from 6:00pm-8:00pm. It will be held at the Milltown Karate studio at 230 2nd Ave SW Milltown WI 54858.

Join us if you can! If you cannot make it please take a peek on her website: http://mysilpada.com/sites/melissa.halling/private/content/home.jsf

Let Melissa know that we sent you! This is the third year of this event and we are very grateful for her support. All proceeds will benefit Faith’s Lodge, The Compassionate Friends and River’s Uplift. Help us make this year’s fundraiser bigger and better than the last!

Rocket Club

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Rocket Club will be performing for River’s Rally on April 14th, 2012!

They are a band out of the Twin Cities. They have performed twice at Hope Rocks, the concert benefit for Faith’s Lodge.

They created a very special song for Mark Lacek, Faith’s Lodge founder and Faith’s dad. One More Day, which every parent missing their child can relate to. This song is incredibly special to us because River’s picture is in it! You can follow this link to read more about our experience with Faith’s Lodge and to see the One More Day video.

Their latest hit is North Country and parts of the video were filmed in Polk and Burnett counties! Some of you may recognize some of the places in this video.

We are very excited to bring this band to you, details and tickets will be available through this site before February. If you have any interest in being a sponsor, please email ben@riversrally.org. The best part? Rocket Club will also have a meet and greet session for all of the guests!

Restore the Hope Open House

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Join us at Faith’s Lodge on Saturday September 18th, 2011!
9:00am-11:00am Pancake Breakfast, $5.00 per person
11:00am Program at Faith’s Lodge Island
11:30am-3:00pm Tree Planting and Clean-Up

If you would like to attend, or make a donation, visit www.faithslodge.org for more details.

Note that they are not allowing trees to be brought in at this event, due to the amount of space that has been cleared. There will be another gathering in the spring!

Also, they are looking for pantry items, please contact Deanna at 715.553.1152 if you’d like to make a contribution and cannot attend.

THANK YOU! We appreciate your support of our organization and mission in helping others. Without you, none of this would be possible.

Hope Rocks Stars

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We are excited to announce that we are taking the Sweet Shining Stars project to Hope Rocks this year! Hope Rocks is a concert benefit for Faith’s Lodge. This is the biggest fundraiser Faith’s Lodge has annually. The stars will be available for purchase in memory of your child. Each star is hand-crafted upon request. They will be on display during the Hope Rocks event at The Epic Event Center in Minneapolis on Saturday, September 24, 2011.

The Hope Rocks Stars will look like this:

photo taken by Kix Photography

The cost per star will be $20 with all of the profit going to Faith’s Lodge. The stars will be available to pick up if you are attending Hope Rocks, if not they will be mailed to you for $4.95 shipping fee. These will be mailed priority, within a week of the event.

Please fill out the form below and after submitting your request, please make payment through the Donate Button at the bottom of this post.
DEADLINE FOR ORDERING IS SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2011. This is to ensure all orders are completed before Hope Rocks! Reminder: because these stars are hand-crafted, each star may have it’s own characteristics.

Ordering is now closed.

Donate via Paypal:

Tee Up Fore Tots Memorial Classic

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River’s Run & Ride Rally is honored to be collaborating with dear friends of Ben and Deanna for The Tee Up Fore Tots Memorial Classic.

This event is being held in memory of Braylyn, Evylyn and Mason Richert. Ben and Deanna met their parents, Brandon and Laura, at Faith’s Lodge while volunteering in November of 2010.

The event will be held in Stillwater, MN and you can visit the link above to register and find out more details.

We are so excited to be part of this event!

Spaghetti Dinner Update

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Thank you to all that came out, or donated to the Spaghetti Dinner benefiting Faith’s Lodge storm clean up.

Ben and Deanna were at Faith’s Lodge on Thursday July 28th to help with some filming to show the damage this storm left behind. The main area in front of the building is clear, but there are many down trees still untouched. This process is going to be long, but there is an Open House scheduled for September 17th. Volunteers can help with clean up and bring trees to plant. There will also be means of purchasing a tree in memory of a loved one on their website shortly.

The other way that you can help right now, is to buy tickets to attend Hope Rocks or consider being a sponsor. This is Faith’s Lodge main fundraiser annually. Ben and Deanna volunteered last year, and Ben is on the Planning Committee for this year’s event. It is is Minneapolis on September 24, 2011.

Again, thank you for all of the support in helping Faith’s Lodge recover from the devastation this storm left behind. We appreciate your generosity for something that is so important to the Wheeler family.

Disaster Relief Effort

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Burnett County, WI was hit with a tremendous storm on Friday. Our town is fine but a bit further north, there is significant damage after winds of 100 MPH ripped through. In the path of that storm is Faith’s Lodge.

Just before the entrance to Faith's Lodge, Driveway

As many of you know, Faith’s Lodge is a huge part of our organization. They are in dire need of financial support to clean up the hundreds of down trees. We fear that until the trees are cleared up, they won’t be able to host families that so much need the hope that they provide.

Prior to the storm, Faith’s Lodge structure was not visible from this road, now you can see it with the naked eye. In this picture, (taken with cell phone) you can see the rooftop in the middle.

River’s Run & Ride Rally board of directors is discussing fundraising efforts, but Ben and Deanna feel like they need to do something now. We are just devastated by this, so much of our life is devoted to that facility and their mission. We have come up with this immediate fundraising effort: This photograph was taken this Sunday after the storm in River’s Garden – We couldn’t believe the beauty of Mother Nature at our home after seeing the devastation just 30 minutes away.

In an attempt to share this beauty while helping Faith’s Lodge, for a donation of $5.00 to River’s Run & Ride Rally, we will email you this JPEG as a THANK YOU for your help in this effort. All proceeds from this photograph will go directly to Faith’s Lodge toward their clean up expenses. Please put Disaster Relief Effort and your email in the Notes field.


NOTE: This photograph is in no way directly connected to Faith’s Lodge or its employees. It is an attempt to help preserve the mission of Faith’s Lodge by offering families suffering serious illness or loss of a child hope.

What’s Happening Around River’s Rally?

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There’s been a lot going on, and this will be an update for our supporters and generous donors.

River’s Uplift Program Donations:
* We donated travel sized toiletries to the Boy Scout Pack 563 in Milltown. They partnered with McDonald’s in St. Croix Falls in putting together Welcome Bags for guests at the Ronald McDonald house in the Twin Cities. “Ronald McDonald House Charities, Upper Midwest creates, finds and supports programs that provide a caring  community for families with seriously ill children while increasing children’s  access to health care services.” Ronald McDonald House also works with Faith’s Lodge on their family programming. Faith’s Lodge also has retreats set up for the families that are utilizing Ronald McDonald House services. What a wonderful partnership!

*We donated a changing table to the Bering Park in Milltown. There were no existing changing tables, and after conversing with the Village of Milltown and the Milltown Community Club, it was decided by our board that we would donate one and the Community Club would donate the other. There are changing tables in both the men’s and women’s restrooms at this park. Thank you Community Club for working with us to provide this service to parents and families in our community!

* We donated to Milltown’s Outdoor Movie program this summer. This is being operated by the Milltown Public Library.  The first movie showing was in early June with a wonderful turnout. We have heard many local families ask about this program and when there will be more movies. We decided to partner with the library to offer another show later this summer. Movie is yet to be decided, but we are sure it will be a family friendly film and look forward to seeing everyone there! We will keep you posted as to date, time and film.

* Lastly, Deanna is working with the SCRMC to have Memory Boxes and resources available when families experience stillbirth or infant loss. We are also trying to develop material for those that experience miscarriage. This is a long process, with a team of 4 wonderful women organizing it all.  Hopefully all of this will be in place by early fall.

Faith’s Lodge Donations:
*We went shopping for supplies. Our board decided to budget $500 to buy the “bits” that makes Faith’s Lodge work. We got them toiletries, food for the pantry, craft supplies, gifts for kids games when there is a family week. There is a little bit of everything! It was an honor to shop for them. The programs and things they do while parents and families are there is just amazing. It was fun to provide the stuff to make it all happen!

*We purchased a brick for the entryway. All of the supporters of River’s Run & Ride Rally will be recognized by displaying this brick. We will be part of Faith’s Lodge, because of the generous support we received this year.

*We sponsored one family to stay at Faith’s Lodge. They will get to take part in all of the wonderful things Faith’s Lodge offers to help them heal.

The Compassionate Friends Donations:
*We donated $200.00 to the St. Paul Chapter
*We donated $200.00 to the Clear Lake Chapter
*We donated to the National Conference which is being held in Minneapolis this year. This is the first time in 34 years it will be held there. We sponsored a sharing session and a workshop for the conference attendees.

*We donated $1200 to the Northwoods Chapter (Milltown).  The Chapter Leader will also be attending the national conference, so we helped balance some expenses for that trip.
This will partly be used for their Annual Balloon Release as well as the Worldwide Candle Lighting Service. These are wonderful celebrations of lives gone too soon. Any family member or friend of a bereaved family is welcome to attend. Please email Deanna at deanna@riversrally.org for more details of these events.

There has been alot going on around River’s Rally headquarters! We appreciate all of the support and kindess we have received. THANK YOU!

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