Ministry Purpose!
When we work together to accomplish a task, things just seem to go a little smoother. When every one of us does their part, it seems to go much farther than when we try to do it all ourselves. We could never impact as many lives as we do without your faithful support. We still have big goals as we come upon the end of one year and the beginning of another. We are establishing a forward momentum that we don’t want to see hindered. We really believe God will make a way for us to open the Ann Skinner Women and Children Home. We have raised about $30,000 towards this but still have a long way to go. We are doing everything we can on our end. We have a team of people taking courses on obtaining grant money and fundraising. We have really been spreading ourselves pretty thin with the many tasks at hand. We are in need of more help. We need some volunteers with computer skills to help lighten the load a little more. We need a bunch of volunteers to help with the toy distribution days. Please follow us on Facebook to see when we will be needing help. We also need help packing the holiday meals and distributing them. We are so thankful for all the support so far with everything. Just when things seem impossible, God sends us more help. Please keep us in prayer as we have a very busy schedule over the next two months. Oh, and by the way, if you see John with a brunette, no worries, it is just Tammy with a new hair-do. Haha.
Thanksgiving!
When we think of Thanksgiving, it brings happy thoughts of feasts and family time. We have all the special delicacies and desserts. We play board games around the table and spend time together as families. This is nice, but this is not what Thanksgiving looks like to a lot of the families we minister to. Many times there is only one parent. Sometimes the children are living with other family members because both parents are absent. Sometimes they don’t have basic meal items in the refrigerator. Sometimes they can’t even think about a turkey because the water just got shut off. We as the body of Christ can make a difference in the lives of these people. We know that every single person is not given the gift of hospitality. We are thankful this is one of our giftings or we would be living a very uncomfortable life right now. We always invite people over for every holiday. We don’t want to sit down at our table and know there are people that cannot enjoy what we are enjoying. We want to encourage you to invite a family that you normally wouldn’t hang out with on holidays. Don’t be so caught up on what will make your holiday perfect, but how you can make the holidays perfect for someone else. We assure you there is no better feeling when you lay down for bed than knowing you made a huge difference in the lives of another family. We as the body of Christ need to be the example of true Christian love.
Sign me up!
There are many ways to help. Be proactive. Give us a call after reading this and let us know what you can do. The needs we have are huge and it will literally take an army of believers to conquer. Pick one or more ways you can help.
1. If you are a business owner, you could put a box at your location with one of our flyers to collect toys for the Toy Ministry.
2. We do utility assistance or rental assistance in the amount of $75. You could send in $75 for each family in need you would like to sponsor.
3. You can use the insert of this newsletter and go shopping for toys for the Toy Ministry or fill one or more request for holiday meals, or you could just send a check for however many holiday meals you would like to sponsor at $25 each.
4. You could donate your time in the distribution of holiday meals or toys.
5. You can gather your Bible study team or a group of friends and do a toy drive to collect toys for the Christmas Toy Ministry.
6. You can send a check designated to a specific purpose and we will make sure it gets spent on that specific purpose.
If everyone does a little something, we as the Body of Christ can do so much!
When we work together to accomplish a task, things just seem to go a little smoother. When every one of us does their part, it seems to go much farther than when we try to do it all ourselves. We could never impact as many lives as we do without your faithful support. We still have big goals as we come upon the end of one year and the beginning of another. We are establishing a forward momentum that we don’t want to see hindered. We really believe God will make a way for us to open the Ann Skinner Women and Children Home. We have raised about $30,000 towards this but still have a long way to go. We are doing everything we can on our end. We have a team of people taking courses on obtaining grant money and fundraising. We have really been spreading ourselves pretty thin with the many tasks at hand. We are in need of more help. We need some volunteers with computer skills to help lighten the load a little more. We need a bunch of volunteers to help with the toy distribution days. Please follow us on Facebook to see when we will be needing help. We also need help packing the holiday meals and distributing them. We are so thankful for all the support so far with everything. Just when things seem impossible, God sends us more help. Please keep us in prayer as we have a very busy schedule over the next two months. Oh, and by the way, if you see John with a brunette, no worries, it is just Tammy with a new hair-do. Haha.
Thanksgiving!
When we think of Thanksgiving, it brings happy thoughts of feasts and family time. We have all the special delicacies and desserts. We play board games around the table and spend time together as families. This is nice, but this is not what Thanksgiving looks like to a lot of the families we minister to. Many times there is only one parent. Sometimes the children are living with other family members because both parents are absent. Sometimes they don’t have basic meal items in the refrigerator. Sometimes they can’t even think about a turkey because the water just got shut off. We as the body of Christ can make a difference in the lives of these people. We know that every single person is not given the gift of hospitality. We are thankful this is one of our giftings or we would be living a very uncomfortable life right now. We always invite people over for every holiday. We don’t want to sit down at our table and know there are people that cannot enjoy what we are enjoying. We want to encourage you to invite a family that you normally wouldn’t hang out with on holidays. Don’t be so caught up on what will make your holiday perfect, but how you can make the holidays perfect for someone else. We assure you there is no better feeling when you lay down for bed than knowing you made a huge difference in the lives of another family. We as the body of Christ need to be the example of true Christian love.
Sign me up!
There are many ways to help. Be proactive. Give us a call after reading this and let us know what you can do. The needs we have are huge and it will literally take an army of believers to conquer. Pick one or more ways you can help.
1. If you are a business owner, you could put a box at your location with one of our flyers to collect toys for the Toy Ministry.
2. We do utility assistance or rental assistance in the amount of $75. You could send in $75 for each family in need you would like to sponsor.
3. You can use the insert of this newsletter and go shopping for toys for the Toy Ministry or fill one or more request for holiday meals, or you could just send a check for however many holiday meals you would like to sponsor at $25 each.
4. You could donate your time in the distribution of holiday meals or toys.
5. You can gather your Bible study team or a group of friends and do a toy drive to collect toys for the Christmas Toy Ministry.
6. You can send a check designated to a specific purpose and we will make sure it gets spent on that specific purpose.
If everyone does a little something, we as the Body of Christ can do so much!