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“Not For Sale” Info Night – June 3

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:18:35 +0000

The “Not For Sale” Campaign is a faith-based organization committed to exposing the reality of Human Trafficking in our world and community. Slavery exists today and the church is called to proclaim freedom for all prisoners and to release the oppressed.

Come to the “Not For Sale” Info Night at Manette Community Church, Thursday, June 3rd starting with a 6 pm potluck.

Contact: Sue Stearns

“Taking It To the Streets”

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:05:20 +0000

Kelly Cooper’s Sunday morning class is continuing to support “Taking It To the Streets” in their work with the homeless here in Bremerton and Seattle. In December they assembled 85 Care Kits containing toiletry items donated by MCC. Seventy-five of these were distributed on Christmas Day in Seattle and the other ten locally in Bremerton. They will soon begin collecting items for more Care Kits, so stay tuned!

Locally, some of the class memebers are helping with the dinners “Taking It To the Streets” serves to the homeless on Tuesday nights. Various items are distributed during these dinners. Current needs include:

toilet paper – individually wrapped (Costco is a good source)
hand sanitizer
C & D size batteries
gloves
laundry soap – 4 cups in a Ziplock bag
“Big 5″ gift cards – for sleeping bags

If you’d like to donate, bring any of these items to the church entry or Room 203. Thanks for your support as we show God’s love to those in need!

2010 Mission Trip

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:11:05 +0000

We will be ministering to the Crow Agency in Montana August 2-6, 2010, with 1 or 2 travel days on each end of these dates.

The trip is designed around our group’s talents and abilities. Activities may include home repairs such as painting, roofing, electrical, and plumbing as well as social activities such as VBS and worship service. Depending on the location in Montana, we may be able to plan some nearby sightseeing trips.

We meet monthly to determine how to share responsibilities for planning our trip, participate in team building activities, and determine how we can serve the community we are going to. In addition to this monthly commitment, team members will be required to help with fund raising. The majority (possibly all) of the funds raised for the trip will be obtained through the sale of fireworks in 2009 and 2010. Therefore, participants will be required to take part in fireworks sales in 2010 (there are a variety of jobs) or find other means of fund raising. (cost of the trip is estimated at $700 to $800 per person.)

Those who have been on mission trips before can testify that their time and effort was well invested and the reward of helping others in need is priceless.

If you want more info, or want to go contact: youth@manettecommunitychurch.com