An Opportunity
GOD'S GLOBAL BARNYARD
Purchase a Chick for a Buck! ($10 will buy one chicken for one family)
Donations in the Barn (Look for the barn for other animals to purchase)
All monies collected will go to ELCA for God's Global Barnyard
Another Opportunity
We are running out of our supply of Blessing Bags that were created on God's Work Our Hands Sunday for distribution to hand out to people in need
Please provide donations of the following to keep this great program going:
warm socks wipes chapsticks granola bars hand warmers rain ponchos deodorant kleenex protein snacks gum
Drop your donations off at the collection box in the Ark hallway
Another Opportunity
Donations needed for Orion Area "Backpack Blessings" Program which provides a small bag of supplemental food for 30 needy children to take home each weekend
In addition to basic items ordered from IGA or River Bend Food Pantry, they like to include extra items such as pudding cups, fruit snacks, trail mix, goldfish crackers, and other individually packaged items
donations of these "extras" may be left in the designated container in the courtyard hallway
Another Opportunity
Donations needed for the Orion Schools breakfast project. Items appreciated include cheese crackers, peanut butter crackers, pop tarts, granola bars, rice krispy treats, fruit breakfast bars, individual cereal boxes, individual fruit cups. Monetary donations are also needed for purchasing milk. There is a basket in the courtyard hallway for your donations.
One Example
WELCA contributed almost $1,300 in outreach mission support in 2018
Another Example
$6,583.12 was contributed in 2018 for various disaster relief efforts,
132% of what was budgeted!
Another example
Total Benevolence(Missions) expenditures by the church for 2018 totaled $43,318.12 which was an increase over 2017 and almost 16%
of the total General Fund expenditures!
