Announcements July 26, 2015
Posted on Jul 25, 2015 in Newsletter |
Come celebrate with those who are being baptized this afternoon at 3:00 PM. This will be a river baptism held on the east side of the Danville/Riverside Bridge (right off Water Street). Bring lawn chairs. Cookies and other finger foods are needed for the reception following the service. Leave these items in the kitchen this morning or bring them directly to the service.
The next Haiti Mission Trip is scheduled for 12/28/15 – 1/5/16. Applications are available at the Info. Desk. Please contact the church office right away if you have any interest in going along on this trip as we need to make sure we have enough plane tickets.
500 tickets have been claimed for the Jason Gray Concert on Aug. 5. We are quickly approaching the cut off number for tickets, so if you are
interested in attending this concert, please stop by the Information Desk today to make sure you get tickets. Since this is a large event we will need many volunteers. Please sign up to help at the table in the foyer.
Kitchen clean-up. If you donated food to VBS or any other event recently, please check the kitchen counter. There are many dishes there that need to be claimed.
THANKS to our great team of leaders and helpers at VBS last week. 101 explorers attended at least one night, and 98 leaders/helpers were here to encourage them in their Journey off the Map. Thanks for coming, thanks for helping, and thanks for praying.
During August, the Haiti team is collecting school supplies for the children of Haiti. We will take these supplies with us and distribute them while we are there in December/January. Please leave the following items in the Mission Barrel outside of Springer Chapel:Wooden Pencils, Ball Point Pens, Boxes of Crayons, Spiral notebooks, large size with 70 pages, Notebooks of Graph Paper (primary grades use these in Haiti), Erasers (not a slip-on pencil eraser), Small individual pencil sharpeners, Toothbrushes, Small tubes of toothpaste,
Soup Cans to fill with change are still available at the Information Desk in the sanctuary foyer. This money will be used for glasses and fluoride treatments in Haiti. Cans are due back to the church by September 13.
Good Samaritan, a ministry assisting local families, is sponsoring their annual Back to School Socks & Underwear Drive. If you wish to
participate please place your donation of new socks and/or underwear for boys or girls, size 6-14 in the container near Springer Chapel today & next Sunday.
Gently used books & Bibles for countries where Christian literature is needed may be placed in the designated container near the Chapel. (Donations accepted through the summer)
needs of the missionaries we support.
August 30: What ABout Grace? (Your Questions About Grace).
Thank you so much for your responses to the Facebook posts about God’s grace. There will be more posts as we continue on the journey. (Facebook name: dawes dunham).Pastor Dawes will also be sharing quotes about grace on Twitter (@dawesdunham).