Donate Time - Many Hands make Light Work
or How can I Help with the Weekend?
Set-Up: begins on Thursday at 1:00 p.m, Rollo room set-up, unpacking the trailer, etc. As many hands as show up can be put to good use!
The Sponsor’s Service begins after the Rector/Rectora dismisses the Community from the opening social to begin the weekend. It is a time of worship and prayer to dedicate the weekend to the Lord, praying for each Pilgrim by name and blessing the crosses. Sponsors are asked to attend the service or make arrangements for someone to attend in their place. (This service is open to everyone - not just sponsors.)
Serenading the Weekend: Practice begins at 5:00 pm on Saturday. Please assemble in the area that has been designated for practicing and timely departure (without mingling with the team or Pilgrims) after the Serenade is appreciated.
Tear-down: This is probably the most appreciated Palanca to the team who are tired and ready to go home. If you choose this most welcome gift, plan to arrive around 1:00 - 2:00 pm. on Sunday. The Chas will direct you to areas where cleaning and putting the camp back in order can be started.
The Clausura (closing): This is the first opportunity the Community has to give the Pilgrims a hearty welcome. Show your love and 4th Day support for those Pilgrims you’ve been praying for and meet them face to face! Be patient if the weekend is not running quite on schedule; the Clausura should start around 3.
Donate Dollars - Green Palanca
The Vineyard is asking for your support in many ways for the upcoming weekend such as Prayer Palanca, Thing Palanca and Green Palanca. Prayer is the most important form of Palanca you can give but we are also in great need of Green Palanca to pay for the women's weekend. As you know, there are many costs involved with putting on a weekend. From the fee for the Camp and the FOOD to the numerous boxes of Kleenex® tissue we use. The weekends can’t happen without the community’s (your) financial support. The pilgrims are told that their weekend has been paid for; that happens with support from the community, sponsors AND team members, who are asked to contribute what they can toward the estimated $275 per person cost.
Please support your church first but we ask you to prayerfully consider a donating to the Vineyard after titing to your church. You can send Green Palanca to the treasurer. However and how much you choose to give is up to you. We don’t keep records (except for tax purposes) of how much you give and NO ONE has, or ever will be, denied the opportunity to attend or serve on a weekend based on who gave what. If you would like to mail a tax-deductible gift to help defray the weekend expenses, please send a check payable to "Vineyard Via de Cristo" to
Rich Manfredo, Treasurer
6209 Derby Drive
Frederick, MD 21703
We now can take donations via credit or debit cards.
Donate Love Gifts (formerly "Thing Palanca")
You remember them from your weekend – bracelets, key chains, pins, mints, necklaces, pencils, bookmarks and such!
If you want to provide love gifts (we used to call them "thing palanca") for a weekend, you will need to send 50 pieces. Love gifts just for pilgrims would be a maximum of 16 (allowing for a spare piece or two). Please support the pilgrims with these small tokens of God’s love for them and while you are making them don’t forget the most important form of Palanca – PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!