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09/03/2026

💛 Do you BELIEVE? Because Citizen Teams sure do! 💛 It’s time for I Believe in Brookwood, and Citizen Teams across Brookwood® are gearing up for one BIG goal: raising more than $2 MILLION for The Brookwood Community™! 🙌🎉

But this campaign is about so much more than a number. Every dollar raised helps provide meaningful work, a sense of belonging, opportunities to grow, and a community where adults with disabilities are valued for the incredible gifts they bring to the world.

And trust us… these Citizen Teams are ready to BRING IT. 💪💛

Pick a team. Cheer them on. Make a gift. And most importantly, show the world that YOU BELIEVE IN BROOKWOOD! https://brookwoodcommunity.ejoinme.org/Believe2026

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09/03/2026

🍑 WARNING: Fall Fest may cause excessive sampling, shopping, and premature Christmas spirit. 🎄

Brookwood® Fall Fest is September 10–12, and we’re getting ready for THREE days of fall fun, fabulous vendors, shopping, and community!

And this year, we’re giving you a very delicious reason to stop by: TASTE TESTING! Come sample our Brookwood Private Label jams & jellies, packaged right here at The Brookwood Community™ by Citizens. Peach preserves? Strawberry almond jam? Peach amaretto & pecan? We fully support trying them all. You know… for research. 🍓🍑

🎄 BONUS: The first of our famous Christmas trees are already going up! Yes, it’s September. No, we will not apologize. Christmas sparkle waits for no one! ✨
While you’re here, explore our 10,000-square-foot Gift & Garden Center, packed with unique finds, fall favorites, and products made with purpose by adults with disabilities.

📅 September 10–12 | 9:00am–4:30pm
📍 Brookwood Gift & Garden Center & The Brookwood Café
1502 FM 1489, Brookshire, TX 77423

Come hungry. Come ready to shop. And apparently… come ready for the Holiday Seasons! 😂🎄🍑

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09/02/2026

The Brookwood Way® Conference is approaching! From September 22-24, join us to explore innovative strategies in supporting adults with disabilities. Don't miss our pre- and post-conference sessions for deeper insights into our mission. Register now: https://conta.cc/4xDGGMG

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09/01/2026

💛 262 Citizens. One BIG goal. More than $2 MILLION reasons to BELIEVE! 💛 It’s officially I Believe in Brookwood season at The Brookwood Community™! 🎉

When you support I Believe in Brookwood, you’re saying:
💛 I Believe every individual is created with unique gifts and purpose.
💛 I Believe meaningful work brings confidence, dignity & fulfillment.
💛 I Believe communities are stronger when everyone can contribute.
💛 I Believe in the remarkable potential of adults with disABILITIES.

And this year, you can make it personal! 🙌 Meet our Citizen Teams, get to know the incredible personalities, talents, and Abilities of Brookwood® Citizens, then choose a team to support—or give to the Dream Team, representing the heart and spirit of Brookwood! 👉 Meet the Citizen Teams, pick your favorite & make your gift at www.BrookwoodCommunity.org/Believe

Our goal is BIG: more than $2 million by December 31! Because Brookwood receives no government funding, your generosity directly supports the meaningful work, life-enriching programs, friendships, growth, and opportunities that help Citizens thrive.

Last year, more than 1,500 people said, “I BELIEVE!” Will you be one of them this year? 💛

Do you BELIEVE? We sure do! 💛

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08/31/2026

🍤🌮 SHRIMP TACOS ARE ON DECK! 🌮🍤 And judging by these two, the Café crew is READY to serve up some serious deliciousness. 😎🙌

This week’s special at The Brookwood Café is Shrimp Tacos—packed with flavor and perfect for a late-summer lunch. Fair warning: one taco may lead to another. And another. We don’t make the rules. 😂

That’s this week’s Café special, and it’s only here through Saturday! So grab your forks, round up the lunch crew, and snag your table now 👉 https://bit.ly/BWOpenTable

When you dine at The Brookwood Café, you’re doing more than enjoying a great meal—you’re helping create meaningful work, purpose, and belonging for the Citizens of The Brookwood Community™. 💚

Come hungry. Leave happy. Dine with a purpose.

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08/30/2026

💪💚 STRONG BODY. STRONG FAITH. STRONG PURPOSE. Citizen Dorothy knows keeping in shape is important—and she’s putting in the work! 💪 But at Brookwood®, we believe there’s another kind of strength that matters even more.

As Brookwood’s founder has always said: “You will see adults with visible disabilities at Brookwood. But you won’t find a single Citizen with a spiritual disability.”

What a beautiful reminder for all of us. The world may notice what someone can or cannot do physically, but God looks deeper. He sees the heart. He sees purpose. He sees gifts. He sees His beloved child. 💚

At The Brookwood Community™, we see that truth lived out every day through Citizens like Dorothy—working hard, growing stronger, encouraging others, and reminding us what a life rooted in faith can look like.

📖 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” — Philippians 4:13

This Sunday, may we all work on getting a little stronger—in body, in spirit, and especially in faith. 🙏💪

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08/29/2026

🍷 WINE + FRIENDS + 20% OFF + SUPPORTING BROOKWOOD®? 🍷 Honestly, we’re struggling to find the downside here. 😂

Katy Wine Fest is Friday, October 2, and it’s serving up an evening of wine, delicious food, music, and plenty of opportunities to confidently say things like, “I’m getting hints of blackberry…” while everyone around you nods thoughtfully. 🍇😏

Even better? Proceeds benefit the Citizens of The Brookwood Community™! 💚

And because a good deal pairs beautifully with a good pour:

🍷 Grab your VIP or General Admission tickets
💻 Visit www.KatyWineFest.com
🎟️ Use promo code BW20
🥂 Get 20% OFF!

So text the group chat, assemble your favorite wine friends, and make plans for a night that does a whole lot of good while you have a whole lot of fun.

Wine friends + 20% off + supporting adults with disabilities = a VERY good pour-pose. 🍷💚

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08/28/2026

🍂 FALL FEST VENDOR SPOTLIGHT! 🍂 We’re officially entering the dangerous part of Fall Fest planning…the part where we start looking at what the vendors are bringing and mentally spending our paychecks. 😂🛍️

Two vendors you’ll definitely want on your shopping list:

🥜 The Great Texas Pecan Candy Company — A Katy favorite since 1997, bringing the GOOD STUFF. Think buttery Pecan Roca, Pecan Brittle, Candied Pecans, Chocolate ’N Pecans, chewy pralines and even West Texas Fire for those who like their pecans with a little attitude. 🔥🤠

✨ — Beautiful, one-of-a-kind kiln-formed art glass handcrafted right here in Katy and Houston! Their colorful suncatchers, lamps, décor and more are individually handcrafted—not mass-produced—which means you might want to employ the highly sophisticated shopping technique known as SEE IT. LOVE IT. GRAB IT. 😍
And these are just TWO of the 40+ local vendors coming to Brookwood® Fall Fest!

🍁 Brookwood® Fall Fest
📅 Thursday–Saturday | September 10–12
⏰ 9:00am–4:30pm
📍 The Brookwood Gift & Garden Center and The Brookwood Café | 1502 FM 1489, Brookshire, TX 77423

🎁 Shop handcrafted gifts, seasonal décor, Citizen-made products & fall florals
🍽️ Enjoy lunch at the Café | 11:00am–2:30pm
☕ Grab drinks, snacks & box lunches from the Coffee Cart
🍷 Sip & shop at the Wine Bar in the Garden
🛍️ Discover 40+ local vendors!

Come hungry. Come ready to shop. Maybe bring a friend who will tell you, “YES, you absolutely need that.” 😂

Best of all, Fall Fest lets you support local makers AND the meaningful work of Citizens at The Brookwood Community™. 💚

Shop with a Purpose. Dine with a Purpose. Celebrate Fall with a Purpose!

Interested in becoming a vendor? Call the Gift Shop at 281-375-2149 for details. (Don't hit ANY links dropped in the comments. Vendors HAVE to call the Gift Shop!)

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08/28/2026

🍂 Citizen Rachel understood the assignment: Wave goodbye to summer and MAKE. IT. FALL. 🌼🪴 She’s filling the Garden Center with beautiful plants and flowers ready to give your porch a seasonal glow-up!

Citizen Rachel is moving soooo many gorgeous plants and flowers into the Garden Center, we’re starting to wonder if she’s personally responsible for making fall beautiful. 💪🌼🪴

If your porch is currently giving “summer survived here” instead of “HELLO, FALL! 🍂,” we can help.

Head to The Brookwood Community™ this weekend and let Brookwood® Citizen Rachel and the horticulture team help you spruce up your fall foliage! Grab a mum. Grab a plant. Grab three. Your porch deserves a seasonal glow-up. 😂

📍 The Gift & Garden Center
1502 FM 1489, Brookshire, TX 77423
⏰ Monday–Saturday | 9:00am–4:30pm

Every purchase supports meaningful work and purpose for adults with disabilities. 💚

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08/27/2026

🏈📣 YOUR TEAM CALLED. It wants more accessories. 😂

Build your School Spirit Stack at Brookwood®! Citizens at The Brookwood Community™ have been busy handmaking colorful beaded bracelets so you can stack your wrist for game day—whether you bleed maroon, orange, red, blue, purple, green… or whatever color makes you yell! 😂🏈

And why stop at your wrist? We’ve got your game day look covered from head to toe:
🏈 Citizen-made School Spirit Stacks
👗 Beautiful game day dresses
🧣 Scarves in your favorite team colors
✨ Jewelry to complete the look
🤠 Shudde Bros. Hats to keep that Texas sun from winning

Basically, all you need to bring is your team loyalty. We’ll handle the outfit. 😉

Come shop with purpose at The Gift & Garden Center and cheer on the incredible talents of Brookwood Citizens while you get game-day ready!

📍 The Gift & Garden Center
1502 FM 1489, Brookshire, TX 77423
Monday–Saturday | 9:00am–5:00pm

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08/26/2026

⚾️ Talk about a MAJOR LEAGUE OPPORTUNITY! ⚾️ On Friday, Brookwood® Citizens traded the workshops for the ballpark and headed to cheer on the Houston Astros! 🧡💙 And as if a night at the game wasn’t exciting enough… CEO Greg Hubert got the honor of throwing out the FIRST PITCH! ⚾️🔥 We’re happy to report he made it over the plate. 😉

But this night was about more than baseball. It was a pretty amazing example of one of the GOD RICH Core Values Citizens at The Brookwood Community™ live out every day:

💚 OPPORTUNITY. Opportunity to work. Opportunity to learn. Opportunity to build friendships. Opportunity to experience new things. And sometimes… opportunity to watch your CEO take the mound at an Astros game! 😂⚾️

At Brookwood, we believe adults with disabilities deserve opportunities to participate fully in their community, discover their gifts, and live lives filled with meaning, purpose, friendship—and FUN!

Thank you to the Houston Astros for giving Citizens a night to remember! 🧡💙

Brookwood is GOD RICH. And Friday night, we were ASTROS RICH, too. ⚾️😉

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08/25/2026

💡 What if the idea you’ve been dreaming about could become a program that changes lives?

Maybe you’re ready to start a program for adults with disabilities. Maybe you’ve already started and need fresh ideas. Or maybe you’ve been doing this work for years and are ready to learn what’s working for others.

That’s exactly why The Brookwood Way® Conference exists! 💚

Next month, The Brookwood Community™ is opening its doors to share decades of experience—the wins, the lessons learned, the things we’ve changed along the way, and the Brookwood® best practices that help adults with disabilities live lives filled with purpose and meaning.

✨ Learn practical strategies you can actually use.🤝 Connect with others doing this important work.💡 Discover new ideas and proven best practices.⚡ Re-energize your team and your mission.

Whether you’re dreaming it, building it, or already living it every day, come spend a few days learning alongside people who understand the journey.

📅 The Brookwood Way Conference is NEXT MONTH! Don’t wait to make your plans. 👉 www.BrookwoodCommunity.org/center-for-learning

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