Committee Reports for February-March 2012
Christian Education Committee
Upcoming Events
Sunday, February 5th - Souper Bowl Sunday hosted by the 5th and 6th graders. They will be collecting soup cans and monetary donations in a soup pot to go to our local Food Bank.
Friday, April 6th – Good Morning Good Friday Event. Look for a signup sheet to be posted in March.
Many Thanks
- To all who donated to our Harvest Home food collection and to Lauren West who delivered over two shopping carts full to the illsborough Food Pantry!
- To all who donated fruit or candy for the fruit baskets and to all who helped assemble and deliver them.
- To all who baked or bought goodies at our December Bake Sale. We made $150.00 to go to the ELCA’S God’s Global Barnyard.
- To Brenda Overcash and Colleen Marvits for putting together another GREAT Christmas Pageant and to all the children who participated in it. You did an AWESOME job!
- To all the Sunday School children who sang at the 6:00 Christmas Eve service.
Help Wanted - Help putting together and organizing a Good Friday Event for Faith’s children. Please talk to Chris Ponsini.
Reminder! - Please continue to have your children collect their loose change and bring it in to dump in our God’s Global Barnyard jar. So far we have raised $264.05!
Social Ministry Committee
Blanket Sunday - We will celebrate our annual Blanket Sunday on February 12th to help Church World Service provide disaster relief, with such items as Blankets and Tools of Hope.
Special envelopes for the collection plate will be provided on February 12 & 19. Any checks should be payable to Faith Lutheran Church. Your contributions to this cause will be deeply appreciated.
Giving Tree - Thank you to everyone who purchased a gift for our annual Giving Tree event. This year we worked with two organizations to provide Christmas gifts for those in need in Hillsborough and Manville. As we have done in previous years, Faith partnered with Hillsborough Social Services' annual Holiday Gift Drive. We collected over 50 gifts for the 15 Hillsborough residents we sponsored.
This year we also partnered with Manville CARMA (Concerned Area Residents for Manville Assistance) to help a family that had been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. They matched us with the Berlew Family – Letty, Ken and their three children. The basement and entire first floor of their home on Boesel Avenue had been flooded leaving it uninhabitable for almost four months. Through the Giving Tree, we provided 4 – 5 gifts for each family member. We also received matching funds from Thrivent's Care Abounds in Communities program which we used to purchase groceries for their Christmas dinner. One final note: The Berlew’s were able to move back into their home two weeks before Christmas!
Special thanks to Ginny Williams, Christina Adelmann, Alicia Chen, Cathy Staszczyk, Karen Van Dongen and Brenda Overcash for their help coordinating this year's drive.
Food Pantry Needs Even More - We at Faith donated 1,748 items to the Hillsborough Food Pantry last year! But now the need is even greater. More and more clients are coming to the Pantry – mostly because they have lost their jobs. So please give even more generously this year.
Especially needed at this time: tomato soup, peas, tea, coffee, and detergents (both laundry and dishwasher). Please place these offerings of food in the shopping cart in the narthex. Your Hillsborough neighbors thank you!
Jesus said, If God has been generous to you, God will expect you to serve him well. But if God has been more than generous, God will expect you to serve him even better. – Luke 12:48 (CEV)
