November 14th is collection day!

Time to dig out a shoebox and go shopping!

Over 77 million children in 130 countries since 1993 have experienced the joy of receiving these simple treasures. The harsh world around them fades, their faces light up with smiles, and their hearts fill with joy. A new follow-up program, The Greatest Journey, is being launched this year in Latin America. Pray that the Lord will multiply his blessing upon this program so that many more children will commit their hearts to Jesus. month and join in this ministry.

Get your brochure and label and join this great outreach to the world’s children.

Letters have gone out to families eligible for this program and we are awaiting the count from Liberty to know how many we will be feeding beginning right after the Christmas vacation.

Watch for chances to ‘bless a backpack’ by adopting children at Liberty at our services in November.

We are in the planning stages of adopting Liberty School for the Blessings in a Backpack Program in which school children who receive free breakfasts/lunches during the school week are sent home each Friday with a backpack of non-perishable food to make sure they are kept fed and nourished over the weekend and able to return on Monday ready to learn.

We are in the planning stages of adopting Liberty School for the Blessings in a Backpack Program in which school children who receive free breakfasts/lunches during the school week are sent home each Friday with a backpack of non-perishable food to make sure they are kept fed and nourished over the weekend and able to return on Monday ready to learn.

Blessings in a Backpack arranges for the food delivery on a discounted basis through the Kentucky Harvest/Dare to Care program and our responsibility would be to fund the program and stuff the backpacks at the school each week. $80 feeds one child for a school year.

Be in prayer for this program as we discuss funding and logistics and coordinate with our sister church at Covenant UMC which has adopted LaGrange Elementary to truly serve our neighborhood.

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Over 77 million children in 130 countries since 1993 have experienced the joy of receiving these simple treasures. The harsh world around them fades, their faces light up with smiles, and their hearts fill with joy.

A new follow-up program, The Greatest Journey, is being launched this year in Latin America. Pray that the Lord will multiply his blessing upon this program so that many more children will commit their hearts to Jesus. A record number of shoe box gifts will be distributed in Haiti this year as part of ongoing disaster relief by Samaritan’s Purse. Get your brochure in church this month and join in this ministry.

 Thanks to everyone who donated money for UMCOR relief in Haiti.  We have delivered over 75 medical kits  as well as cash donations.  We will keep you posted on other ways to assist the earthquake victims. 

 For UMCOR updates and videos go to www.UMCOR.org to see videos of current relief efforts

Thanks to everyone who sewed and decorated stockings for children of inmates and residents of juvenile detention halls in Kentuckiana. Shiloh delivered 112 stockings to Evangel Prison Ministry to be delivered ! Remember, you can sew stockings all year, so get a head start!