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Mission Team—The mission team met Sunday, September 15 and is proud to report the team raised a total of $955 for the CWS crop walk in September. Twenty-five percent of all the money raised stays local and the other seventy-five percent helps fight hunger around the world. In addition, 50 pounds of tomatoes was given to us by Paley's Market (Sarah and Chris Coon) for the Food of Life Pantry in Amenia Union.
The team voted to disperse money raised through Falcon Ridge Folk Festival concessions and through church donations to the following Haitian missions as follows: $1,000 for Hospital Albert Schweitzer, $1,000 for Mission Haiti and $500 for Hope for Haiti. Mission Haiti has several Christian schools in Haiti and offers opportunities to provide financial support for school students. The team feels having our church support a student is an important calling and hopes the mission will be insightful as we will receive regular feedback concerning the student we are supporting.
For the fourth year we will again endeavor to provide local families in need with Christmas gifts for their children. For those of you not familiar with this project, we work with the director of the Sharon Social Service Department to obtain a wish list for a child which includes something to wear, something needed and something wanted. We then shop and wrap the gifts and deliver them to the director in time for Christmas. We work to obtain these items for a combined total of $100 per child. If you are willing to support this mission, welcome! You can help monetarily or with your time. Checks should be made out to the church with “Three Gifts” in the memo line and left in the offering plate. See Terri Conti or Laura DeBoer for more details or questions.
The next mission meeting will be Sunday, November 19 following the service. Everyone is welcome.
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