Christmas Carol gives strong
start to Habitat project
By Nancy Lynch We discovered that we had a lot of talent in our
Memorial United Methodist Church in church. The “readers/actors” practiced twice a
Farmington decided in November to become a week, another member volunteered to be the
Super Sponsor for Habitat for Humanity of St. chef, serving 150 dinners, businesses donated
Francois County. A Super Sponsor is responsible decorations, advertising, table linens, food, etc
for raising $20,000 towards the building of a home. We sold full tables of eight or individual
One of our members, a wonderful young tickets at $15 each and sold out within 2 weeks.
woman who sings with the contemporary band, It was a great night and $3,000 was raised. At
was to be the recipient of the current house that the June 15th church council meeting, it was
was being built. A committee was formed and it reported that a final amount of $20,872.01
was decided to have a dinner theater and to put was raised for Habitat for Humanity. This was
it all together in only six weeks as dates were raised in less than six months through indi-
fast filling up with Christmas programs. vidual gifts and a youth sponsored trivia night.
It just so happened that a young professional I believe that my church has exhibited the true
actor was a co-worker with one of our com- spirit of Christmas and selfless giving.
mittee members and he volunteered to act in To contact Memorial UMC call 573-756-4565
and direct a reading of “A Christmas Carol”. or e-mail info@memorialumethodist.org.
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