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December 20 2010 at 7:26 pm

Sheldon Care Group Reaches Out to Three Families

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Drew Garfield, who directs Community Outreach and Missions at Covenant Life, passed on this note in which Scott Sheldon describes how his care group took initiative last week and expressed Christ’s love for some needy families in a neighborhood not far from the church.

Last Tuesday, our care group came together to provide Christmas dinners for three families in the Washington Grove community. The dinners included turkey, stuffing, canned beans and corn, rice, rolls, pie, apples and oranges.

Five of our care group families, including children, participated by packing boxes, making up cards, and making the deliveries.  Four couples delivered the dinners while one couple stayed back and kept the kids.

We had significant interactions with two of the families, including opportunities to pray with them. One family shared a medical concern about one of their children, and the team got to pray for the child. The response from the family that my team visited was also very warm; they invited us in and offered us seats. The dad described how he suffers from an injury, and we prayed with him. He called me later, thanked us again for the food, and told me that his family wanted to visit our church on Sunday, so we made plans to meet them at the second service.

All around, it was a great time! I am interested in knowing more about the area and learning how we might be able to serve the folks in the neighborhood in the future.

—Scott Sheldon

Drew comments, “It’s exciting to see not only Scott’s initiative to get involved in the lives of people in our community, but his desire to build long-term relationships with them instead of simply a one-time kindness—and that he is doing it in a community we are already working in is great!”





Scott and Kim,

Thank you for your example and your obedience to the Lord in the way you initiated and followed through with this wonderful example of Christ’s love.  It provokes me, especially around this time of the year when I tend to think only of my family and not others in my community who are lost and without hope.

Grateful for you,
Jim

By Jim and Tina Lutz on 12/20/2010

Great example Scott and Kim. And good on you for leading your care group to participate also.

By Peter Giglio on 12/30/2010
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