Blessings

Our church has been involved in three ministries that culminated today. First of all, our Women on Mission have been collecting coats for people in need. Secondly, we have had several families to participate in Operation Christmas Child. And lastly, our church family has been donating money towards buying people in our community Blessing Baskets. Well, they're actually bags, but I guess basket sounds better. Anyway, this morning, everyone brought their Operation Christmas Child boxes to the church and the children each brought one to the altar and we prayed over them. This afternoon, we invited over 300 people from the Lavaca, Central City, and Barling area to our church to listen to a presentation of the gospel and to receive a bag of groceries, enough for about 2-3 days. Also, we had the coats set up where anybody could grab a coat if they needed one. I'm not sure what the actual numbers were, but we ended up with several families there tonight to receive their "basket". Hopefully we were able to meet not only someones physical hunger, but their spiritual one, as well.

I know these ministries have been blessings to our church family. I was so pleased with the amount of church members we had helping in one way or another tonight.