The Cloverleaf Food Bank donation theme for February is two part: bags or boxes of rice and fruit and vegetable baby food. Drop-off locations are in the Great Room Lobby and Fellowship Hall. The Deacons will deliver the donations to the Food Bank, and the donations will be greatly appreciated.
This is the video that was shown at both worship services today. If you like this video, please share it with your friends!
(And bring shoes to PHCPC!)
Are you wondering where you can deposit those shoes you’ll never wear again? We have the answer!! PHCPC is collecting new or gently used shoes to be taken along with them (June 2012 mission trip) to the EBAC orphanage in Haiti! The best type of shoes would be crocs, flip-flops, tennis shoes or work boots and all sizes are needed.
While Keaton Lindberg and his father were on the mission trip to Haiti last year, they noticed that few of the Haitians they met had shoes. For us in the United States, shoes are a simple, common thing. Not so for the people of Haiti. Keaton thought about this and decided to make his senior project an effort to collect shoes for the Haitians for when he goes back for the mission trip this year.
Collection begins on Mission Sunday, January 22 and continues through the month of February; donations will be collected in baskets in the Great Room Lobby. Your support is very much appreciated.
The Cloverleaf Food Bank donation theme for January is tea and hot chocolate. Please drop off unopened and unexpired items in designated locations within the church. Whether it’s things like instant tea, tea bags, herbal tea, or packets of hot chocolate mix, the donations will be appreciated.
The Cloverleaf Food Bank donation theme for January is tea and hot chocolate. Please drop off unopened and unexpired items in designated locations within the church. Whether it’s things like instant tea, tea bags, herbal tea, or packets of hot chocolate mix, the donations will be appreciated.
We are commissioning Deac Dressing Sunday, January 1. Deac will join a team of people who are headed for an overseas mission experience. He leaves Friday, January 6. The group is going out under the leadership of World Mission Initiative which is headquartered at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. The head of WMI is Rev. Don Dawson. They return January 17. Please be in prayer for the group while they are gone. WMI is sponsoring mission trips this year to Vietnam, Nepal, Guatemala, Israel/Palestine and Trinidad/Tobago.
As this is being written Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is on the way. The holidays are different here; not better or worse, just different. Thanksgiving is not officially celebrated by Mexicans or Mexican-Americans. However, over the years we have gradually introduced the custom to some families who now love it even though mixing Mexican food and turkey and the fixings can be “dangerous” at times. This year with the overwhelming cartel presence in Nuevo Laredo our friends asked us not to come so we delivered meals to ten families in Laredo and ate the meal with our “grandchildren.”
This year our cities became an armed camp at times; Mexican army fighting the drug cartels in the streets of Nuevo Laredo, increased forces of Border Patrol and DEA agents on the U.S, side and politicians from everywhere but here calling for military actions. Nevertheless, the poor are still poor and the homeless are hungry and in need of help. So we keep pressing on in His name.
Now is the time our pickup becomes the “Santa” truck. Most of the month of December the truck is loaded with food, presents and packages going to children, the homeless, or people in need. It is a great time.
We are grateful to our Lord for His provision, protection and guidance this year. It has been a year of changes mixed with blessings.
Feliz Navidad y feliz ano nuevo de la frontera. (Merry Christmas and happy new year from the border!)
– John and Diane Davis
Please purchase a Christmas gift that will be donated to the children of the Rock Forge Community in West Virginia. Wrap your gift in white paper and mark the card with “Boy or Girl” and age range for the child.
(For example: BOY: AGE 10-12 yrs. old )
We will ask for the donations to be brought to the front of the church during both services on Sunday, December 11.
Please purchase a Christmas gift that will be donated to the children of the Rock Forge Community in West Virginia. Wrap your gift in white paper and mark the card with “Boy or Girl” and age range for the child. For example:
(BOY: AGE 10-12 yrs. old)
We will ask for the donations to be brought to the front of the church during both services on Sunday, December 12.
Make Christmas a little brighter for a child by donating a Christmas gift. The Mission Ministry team will be collecting Christmas gifts for the Storehouse of God in Morgantown, WV. New gifts (such as Tonka trucks, GI Joes, basketballs, footballs and doll babies are some of the popular items) will be collected from November 6 through November 20. No gift wrapping is required. Please donate the gifts in the original packaging. The gifts will be delivered to Morgantown on Thanksgiving weekend. Baskets marked “Storehouse Gifts” are available in Fellowship Hall and in the Great Room Lobby for the donations. Contact Wayne Wicks if you have any questions.
Applications are now being taken for the Gulfport, Mississippi 2011 mission trip from April 3rd-9th. The application for the mission trip may be downloaded from here. The deadline for application is Friday, January 28th, 2011.
