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Singles Serve Up a Happy Thanksgiving
0 CommentsI want to let the church know about an outreach that the Singles did over Thanksgiving. What happened with this outreach excites me about future efforts to reach our community with the gospel. I’ve asked Drew Garfield to share specifics of this project:
It all started with a member of our church, Dennis Castaneda, and his passion to bless those both in and outside the church who are in need and would be helped by a Thanksgiving meal. Nothing would have happened if Dennis hadn’t approached Mark Mitchell about Covenant Life getting involved in what he and others have already been doing for a couple of years. What is really exciting is that, by getting the church involved, we were able to expand from the five families Dennis helped last year to blessing 30 families this year!
After Dennis approached us we started work on the logistics. I began gathering names from the pastors, Dennis and several school counselors at area public schools. Members of the singles ministry donated nearly $1800 to purchase food, and then at the November Big Meeting the singles pastors took their respective spheres to three local Giant supermarkets to do the shopping for the meals. The next day more singles came out to help prepare and deliver the baskets.
It was particularly rewarding to be able to work with the different school counselors; they were so grateful for our help. One counselor told me that one of the mothers began to cry when she heard that we would be providing a meal for her and her children. Others who were served included a mom and her kids who were planning to eat pizza for their Thanksgiving meal, a family whose home is without heat or electricity and a single mom who recently lost her job.
It was great being able to show kindness toward people in real need. It was also exciting to see the joyful and willing help of the singles in our church; there is something really amazing about seeing a group of people come together to help someone else.
I’m grateful for Drew’s leadership that made this event possible. Dennis, I want to commend your heart to see the members of our church expressing love and care for the needy in our community. Thanks for your initiative!
December 12 2008 at 12:29 pm
Update on Gen2Gen
0 CommentsA couple changes to our previous post:
First of all, because of some sickness going around at the retirement community, Gen2Gen’s trip to Asbury Methodist Village scheduled for this Saturday had been postponed until January.
Also, sorry to say, we posted the wrong link in the last post. To find out more about Gen2Gen, the ministry Ellie Berry has started, click here.
If you’re interested in participating on their next trip, or for more information, you can
e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
December 9 2008 at 4:18 pm
Your Generosity
0 CommentsThank you for your participation in our Christmas Offering this past Sunday and for giving so generously.
Here’s a list of ways your giving is going to be used to bless people. The organizations are linked so you can learn more about them and how to support them.
• Children of single parents at Covenant Life
• The Lord’s Table Soup Kitchen, a ministry that regularly provides meals for the hungry
• The Shady Grove and Rockville Pregnancy Centers, which offer counseling and other free services to those in crisis pregnancies
• Good News Jail and Prison Ministry, which appoints two chaplains to proclaim the Gospel at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility
• Celestial Manna, distributing food to people in need, from single parent households and large families to low-income neighborhoods and local shelters
December 2 2008 at 10:24 am
Gen2Gen
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I am excited to highlight a ministry called Generation to Generation or “Gen2Gen,” started by Ellie Berry, a teen in our church. She was inspired by “Do Hard Things” and she wants to recruit more teens and parents to participate. I want to encourage others to join her, but also to consider how they can create new ways to serve and care for people in need.
Ellie says on the Gen2Gen site: “I came up with the idea for Gen2Gen after my choir sang at the Asbury Methodist Village near my house. I also read the book Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris. I wanted to do “hard things” and serve the residents at Asbury, so I put the two things together. I came up with gen2gen, a ministry that spans different generations. I hope that this ministry will serve both the older generation and the youth.”
We asked a couple young ladies to share about their experience with Gen2Gen:
There were a couple of reasons I signed up to serve with Gen2Gen. Most of all, it looked like a fun way to step outside my comfort zone; serving with some girls I didn’t know very well in an environment I’m not really familiar with. I was looking forward to getting to know the other volunteers better, and we were certainly drawn closer by serving together! We also, of course, got to interact with the residents at Asbury. This ministry was a rewarding way for me to become more comfortable interacting with people in a very different season of life than I am in. It was a blessing to be able to serve them in whatever way we could, even if it was just escorting them to a small concert (put on by a local high-school group) and back. It was just a little thing, but for many it was the highlight of their day! Overall, it was a very rewarding and eye-opening experience, and I can’t wait to go back! I was so blessed by my time there, and I hope every high-schooler would consider participating!
—Allison BranchawI am usually characterized as an introverted person, so it would seem that I would not be too keen on volunteering at Asbury. However, I put away my fears and God convicted me to step out of my comfort zone. Serving at Asbury allowed me to experience the joy of serving others and how much it meant to the residents. They expressed their gratefulness time and time again, and I am glad I had such an opportunity.
—Rachel Kutten
The team pictured above visited Asbury on November 8, and has plans to go again in January. For more information on the ministry, e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)