Come Together to Serve Together Service Day connects members and friends in a variety of projects
BY DONNA BARNWELL
Twice a year, our church comes together for Service Days, engaging in projects for agencies and organizations throughout the community. Families, friends, youth, adults, and strangers all gather to serve together. At our most recent Service Day on Saturday, October 19, approximately 75 people helped with 14 projects at the church and in our community.
Glancing around Fellowship Hall, one could see participants interactively learning about international and local mission.
Members of six families came together and filled 125 goodie bags with small toiletries and toys that our congregation had donated. Children, youth, young
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adults, adults, and seniors made friendship bracelets. Some people made cards. Te next FPCA Honduras medical mission team will take these goodie bags, friendship bracelets, and cards to Honduras in June 2020.
Five ladies came together to fill 100 training folders for Diakon Adoption and Foster Care through the church’s Diakon mission team.
Several people who did not know each other became fast friends as they served together to decorate a bulletin board.
In the church kitchen, a family of four and a retired couple came together to prepare 70 lunches for Ripple
Community Building Center (CBC), sharing conversation and laughter as they made sandwiches and counted out cookies. Tese lunches were delivered to the CBC by a small group of church people who came together to have lunch and enjoy games with people at the CBC who are experiencing homelessness.
Meanwhile, our youth came together to set up so that neighborhood children could enjoy Trunk or Treat at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church.
At Sheridan Elementary School, a group of adults completed several projects, painting benches and doing yardwork.
A large group of children, youth, and
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