Grayson County Social Services Association

12/20/2017

One more reason to not miss GCSSA Monthly meeting.....today's Christmas Party. Looking forward to seeing all of you wh made reservations! If you have missed out this year, come join us in 2018 a d get to know your peers and all about what is going on in Grayson County to help our friends and nieghbors.

11/10/2017

09/26/2017

The GCSSA 2017 Awards Banquet is in the history books! Congratulations to our Award Winners Carroll Pennell, Joyce White, and TCOG Senior Corps. Our 2018 officers were confirmed with the group vote. BK Schlesinger moves from Acting President to President; Jan Johnson is the President-elect, Joanne Fowler will serve as secretary, Joyce White will continue as Treasurer; and Rob Medlar is the Program Chair.

2107 has certainly been an eventful year. Our President had to resign mid-year, questions were raised concerning our status with the IRS, membership continued to decline as it has in previous years, we voted to change our lunch program to a brown bag lunch program, and we cancelled one meeting due to conflicting schedules and now folks seem to think that we have disbanded and are no longer meeting. WOW! We survived it all. The IRS issue is resolved, we are fully legal, no one went to jail and no is being fined by the IRS. We still meet the third Wednesday of the month at the Salvation Army at noon and everyone can bring what they want to eat or not. Our officers stuck to the By-laws and members stepped up when needed.

Now the real work begins - rebuilding membership! Those faithful members that have hung in there through this year have worked and are still working to do this. We have a clear vision of why we exist and understand that we are not a fundraising organization, that we are not dedicated solely to homelessness, veterans, or mental health issues but rather we are a group of professionals and volunteers working and networking together so that we may more fully serve the needs of our respective agency clients as whole individuals without having to make them fit in one box. We also believe that were are stronger when we work collaboratively.

If you have left the group, we have missed you and hope that you will come back. If you have not joined the group previously, we hope that you will consider doing so. New and Renewal Memberships forms will be available at our next meeting on October 18, 2017 at Noon at the Salvation Army or you may request one electronically by contacting:

[email protected]

Here are some pictures from the luncheon and a big thanks to those who made this happen and those who attended.

08/17/2017

If you missed yesterday's meeting you really missed out! Nominations are in for our awards luncheon, the venue has been set and we have a slate of nominees for officers. Ballots for awardees and for officers will be in your email soon, as will invitations to the luncheon. We had several visitors and potential new members attend. We are all challenged to bring a guest to the luncheon. Hope to see all of you on September 20th!

07/18/2017

Meeting reminder. 7/19/2017 at noon. Salvation Army. This will be a working meeting to nominate officers, IRS resolution, and plan our annual meeting. No speaker this month and I promise no chicken for lunch! Not sure what we will have but it will be good.

06/15/2017

Due the events scheduled for June 21st, vacations, and members with other commitments we will not have our regularly scheduled meeting this month. We will meet in July as scheduled.

05/16/2017

Don't forget tomorrow's meeting! Noon at Covenant Presbyterian Church , Sherman

04/24/2017

Caregiver Workshop: Grieving the Losses of Dementia