The Serra Club of Akron is hosting the inaugural Thomas E. Giffels Memorial Scholarship Fund for Seminarians Reverse Raffle on Sunday, November 10th, 2019 at Guy’s Party Center. Doors open at 5 pm with appetizers and dinner begins at 6 pm and raffle at 7 pm. Tickets are $125 a couple or $75 a person. Included in ticket is dinner, drink tickets, and entry in $2000 drawing and the chance to bid on fabulous auction items. Tom Giffels was a member of the Serra Club of Akron for 45 years. The Thomas E. Giffels Memorial Scholarship fund was established to remember our beloved member and to continue his mission of promoting and supporting vocations to the priesthood and the vowed religious life.
The mission of Serra is to encourage, promote, support and affirm vocations to the priesthood and to the vowed religious life in the Catholic Church, and to further Catholicism by encouraging its members through fellowship and education to recognize and respond in their lives to God’s call to service and holiness. Recipients of the first scholarships awarded in 2019 were Seminarians Luke McNeill and Josh Stecz of St. Francis de Sales Parish. An additional scholarship was provided to Cameron Ferrell of St. Peter and Paul Parish, in memory of long time Serra Member Rudy Didonato. For ticket information or more information about the Serra Club of Akron, contact: Mary Ellen McAvoy @[email protected] or at 330-605-9283.