PASTOR'S NEWSLETTER

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

Last year Operation Christmas Child set records in the shoeboxes packed, there were 11,927,439 shoeboxes that were collected, including 10,574,805 in the U.S.

We would like to encourage you to “Adopt A Shoebox”. We are going to try to pack as many shoeboxes as possible, but we need your help purchasing items for the shoeboxes, and also helping to pay the shoebox shipping. If you would like to donate, put the $10 shipping in a church offering envelope and mark it OCC Shoebox Shipping. You can either pack a shoebox on your own or purchase items to be filled from the Church and put the items under the OCC table in the foyer. We still owe $645.00 from last year and we need to pay this off before we can start collecting shoebox shipping for this year.

We are trying something new this year to see how it goes, we will purchase the school supplies and the hygiene items and then all you have to do is concentrate on the fun things to go in the shoeboxes. We already have some pencil pouches and hygiene pouches ready. We will put some shoeboxes on the OCC table in the foyer in the next few weeks. I will put a list from a website called WOWsupplies.com. This is a Christian lady that runs this website. We bought a sample pack last year and the items are really nice. We would like you to help. We want to challenge the Church to get involved, Church families, Sunday School classes, Children’s Church, ECL, The Board of the Church, even if you only pack one shoebox, that is one child that will receive the shoebox and hear the Gospel and share the Gospel with their families. Once they receive the shoebox they have the opportunity to go through a 12 week discipleship class and learn more of who Jesus is, they also have the opportunity to accept Jesus as their Savior.

Operation Christmas Child is a passion of mine and I have felt led in 2021 to apply to become a year round volunteer. God gave me this opportunity to work for Him. I received my email of acceptance on March 16, 2021, my first thought was God gave me this job for Him on John 3:16 day. I took that as a confirmation. Come and help to serve the Lord, pray and see what God has for you.

On May 2 & 3 we will be having a yard sale in the Fellowship Hall and the proceeds will go to Shoebox Shipping. Someone will be in the Fellowship Hall during the week of April 28 for you to drop off items for the yard sale. I will let you know what times someone will be there to drop off your items. The times for the yard sale will be: Friday, May 2 from 9:00am – 4:00pm and Saturday, May 3 from 9:00am – 12 Noon. If anyone would like to help, let me know.

~Marsha Delmoe

JULY COMMUNION 

July 28 (AM)

March Greeters
JULY GREETERS
Andrea Smith
Vanessa Shoemaker

 Special Need: Greeters are Still Needed! 

We still could use 3 or 4 more people.