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MINISTRIES
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Our church family is involved in various church ministries, many are described
below. Please feel free to join us in contributing your skills and knowledge
to any of our ministries. We send our mission donations/offerings the last
Sunday of each quarter:
4th Quarter MISSIONS
December 31 -- A special offering will be collected during the
morning worship hour..
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~ I.D.E.S. -- Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund" ~~ The mission
of the International Disaster
Emergency Service (I.D.E.S.) is to serve as a channel through which Christian
Churches and Church of Christ, and individual Christians can meet the physical and
spiritual needs of suffering victims of Hurricane Katrina. |
FLOWER Ministry ~~ "Providing warmth through
caring"
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Our flower ministry sends flowers to our loved ones who are our
shut-ins and unable to get out. This ministry is provided by volunteers
within our church family. |
PROJECT LINUS Ministry ~~ "Providing
Security through Blankets" ... so named after
the adorable security blanket-toting character from the Peanuts comic strip.
Creator Charles Schultz was aware of our efforts and delighted to have Linus
inspire blanket makers (aka blanketeers) to help comfort children in need.
Project Linus is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization with a
two-fold mission.
- First, it is our mission to provide love a sinse of security, warmth
and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise
in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afgans,
lovingly created by volunteer "blanketeers".
- Second, it is out mission to provide a rewarding and fun service
opportunity for interested individuals and groups in local
communities, for the benetfit of children.
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"The best kind of sleep under heaven above,
is under a blanket
handmade with love"
"Be a
Blanketeer"
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Anyone, any age, can help these children. It's within your power to
make a difference. --- Christmas Eve 1995, an article appeared in
Parade Magazine entitled, "Joy to the World" by Pulitzer Prize
Winning photo-jorunalist, Eddie Adams. Part of the article features a petite
downy-haired child. She has been going through intensive chemotherapy and
states that her security blanket has helped her get throught treatments. Karen
Loucks decided to provide homemade security blankets to Denver's Rocky Mountain
Children's Cancer Center ----- thus PROJECT LINUS was born.
November 2002 -- Nearly 300 chapters of Project Linus exist with
more than 550,000 blankets delivered worldwide. Project Linus is a 100%
volunteer non-profit organization.
It's easy to help Project Linus. Simply make a blanket and donate it to
your local chapter of Project Linus. Your blanket will be given to a child
in need. |
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"Joy to the
World"
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Our volunteers, known as "blanketeers", provide new, handmade, washable
blankets to be given as gifts to seriously ill and traumatized children,
ages 0-18. -- FMI: contact JoAnne Kiger throught the church phone
at 724-627-5355.
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GRUNDY MT. MISSION Ministry (MMS) ~~
It is estimated that over 20,000 children have received care at MMS since its
founding in 1921. Read more about the
Things Individuals and Groups
Can Do To Help.
Transportation Ministry ~~ "Providing
assistance in transporting our members who are unable to get out on their on; to
come to our church services and other special activities."
"A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others
will himself be refreshed." Proverbs 11:25 ~~
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