Well, today is my eye appointment and we will go to breakfast at Caney Kitchen afterwards. We took our school supplies over yesterday morning before we went to Sedan to take daughter, Leslie, to lunch. The school was so delighted. We were the first people to ever donate school supplies for low income children. Our church is very small but we have a lot of service projects. In years past, we have donated the school supplies to the Coffeyville and Independence schools but we soon learned other organizations also did that and they both had plenty each year. Caney, on the other hand, has no benefactor at all. Our 25 people will find that small school ideal for their service project.
We also support a school for children in the Dominican Republic, help support financially two programs (FAST in Independence and Genesis in Coffeyville) that help low income people pay their rent and utilities when they get in a bind. We collect groceries for a small food basket in our church. At Christmas time we do the Christmas Child boxes and also adopt one or two families who need assistance purchasing Christmas gifts for their children. We also provide them with the makings of Christmas dinner, turkey and all. We are a small group but we try to stay busy with worthwhile service projects.
We think it is very important to try to build community in our communities...to help people in our families, neighborhoods, and communities live in peace. Otherwise, the world will never learn to live in peace. Our church has a Peace Colloquy each year and honors someone worldwide who had made building peaceful communities their goal.
There is more news about the Peace Colloquy at this site. Community of Christ I have three friends who are attending with me this year.
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Good Morning Margie, Hope your appointment goes well today. Before I retired I worked with welfare recipients. We always submitted names to local churches of the people we thought really needed help with baskets, school supplies, etc. It was such a joy to see how much some of the stuff was appreciated that was donated to these people. It is places like your church that gives hope and helping hands to those that really need it. I am sure your church is a great blessing to your community.
It's small but very active, Judy. I prefer it to be small. It's more like family that way...or community. In fact, our church is only 250,000 people worldwide.
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