Dear Church Family and friends:
We know that every fall and winter we move through some of our busiest times and receive many offerings. We normally have the annual Harvest Festival on October 31 with a special offering of $15,000.00 to host the event. We then receive donations for the Thanksgiving Day meals which we take out to families and finally, we help families with Christmas gifts through our Angel Tree program. This year we have prayed about this and we feel it is better for us to focus on providing extra help and care for our families in need. We are not going to host the Harvest Festival this year. We are going to provide Thanksgiving meals for the everyone in need and focus on a larger Christmas outreach starting with our own membership first. This is a way that we can pull together caring for each other and continuing to reach out to the community. We will miss the one outreach event for 2009 but we believe it will be back next year. You will be hearing more on how we can help your family through the holiday season.
- Pastor Greg