Friday, November 28, 2008

Thanksgiving Baskets and Operation Christmas Child

What an exciting couple of months for missions in and through Fruitland Community Church!!! I wanted to make sure that you received the results from a couple of mission projects:
  1. Operation Christmas Child - Our church gathered 106 Operation Christmas Child boxes for Franklin Graham's international ministry. With the struggling economy and all the other projects that we have had going on, this is an great total!! Praying with the kids during the children's sermon last Sunday as they held the shoeboxes, reminded me that we must continue praying for these boxes through the Christmas holiday. Pray that God will use these boxes of love to bring a child to Christ! If you want to read more about this awesome ministry, you can visit their website at: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC
  2. Thanksgiving Baskets Give-a-way - It was a picture of cooperation. Our church working with the Cowboy Church, as well as the scouts and 4-H youth to gather, pack, and deliver approximately 120 baskets for Thanksgiving!! It was amazing to see 80 to 100 people working together...it was quite an operation! Over 3400 cans were collected by the scouts and brought to our church. Volunteers sorted the cans, packed the boxes and delivered them the same day. What is amazing is that we have more food than ever left0ver in our food pantry! God blessed us in an abundant way!!

Thanks for giving to the Lord! Happy Thanksgiving!