Green Valley Community Church 411

Missions Trips 2008

Want to stay up-to-date on everything you need to know about this year’s Mission Trips? If so go to www.gvccmissions.com. This website has been set up to communicate important trip information, to ask questions about a trip, to download forms, and to find out about training dates. This site is open to anyone planning on going on a trip this year.

Promotion for this year’s trips start this weekend. Applications can be picked up at the Community Care Tent, Lobby display board, or by downloading the pdf file from the website. Applications are due by March 14th. If you, or someone you know, plans on participating this year make sure to get the application, along with the deposit, in as soon as possible. Spots will be saved on a first-come-first serve basis for those participants who have their deposit in and an approved application. This might not seem that important, but spots are limited to 16 people per week for DC, and 60 people total for Mexico.

Spirit of Christmas

Well the Christmas Season has begun. Where did the year go? The following post will give you information on all the details for Spirit of Christmas. Hopefully this will answer all of your questions. New this year is a room dedicated just for kids 10-17. I don’t know how they did it but Renee and Michelle talked the High School ministry into taking ownership of this room. There will be games, food and activities in room 203 for this group. Guess which room I’ll be hanging out in?

Date: December 8th
Event Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
Volunteer Hours: 8:00am-1:00pm
Location: The whole building
Volunteer Coordinator: Michelle Brittain (formerly Michelle Cox)
Staff Coordinator: Renee Rehder

THREE WAYS TO GIVE

SHARING your time by volunteering: A volunteer can serve for the full time, 8:00am-1:00pm, or they can serve just for a short amount of time. The best thing to do for someone you can’t stay for the full 5 hours is to ask them to write down on the volunteer sheet what hours they are available. The following is the areas that we need help in: Food preparation and servers Greeters Tear down and clean up teams Children’s activities: arts and crafts, face painting, etc Santa’s helpers Set up team for Friday December 7th, 2:00pm until done.

LOVING the children of Door of Faith Orphanage. We are collecting donations of socks and underwear for the children. All donations can be turned in at the Church Office or the Community Care tent during the weekends. Deadline is December 8th.

GIVING a stocking filled with toys and gifts is an easy and much needed way to help. We are in need of stocking for four different age groups. The list of suggested items and age groups is available at the display in the Lobby. The biggest need for stockings is for the age group of 10-17. This group always seems to be forgotten each year. Deadline for these items is December 2nd and donations can be turned in at the Community Care tent or the Church Office.

We all know that the week leading up to Christmas is very busy with walk-ins. If you can hang around during this week and hold off taking time off this will really help with the influx of people needing help. We will also need spare stockings filled with gifts for this group of people coming in for help.

Thanksgiving Drive

Well, can you believe Thanksgiving is just around the corner? Renee and the Food Closet have started their annual drive for all the fixings for a happy Thanksgiving dinner for those who can not afford it this year.

Donations: Between now and November 10^th members can pick up the complete shopping list at the Community Care tent on the weekends or at the Community Care display board in the front lobby. The Community Care truck will be in the parking lot during services on November 10^th & 11^th to accept the donations. We would really like to have the donations brought it on this weekend instead of earlier if possible. This way all the collection can be done at one time. The biggest need is turkeys. We seem to never have enough turkeys.

Shopping List: 8-10lb frozen turkey, 1 box/bag stuffing mix, 5lb potatoes, 2 cans green beans, 2 cans corn, 2 cans of yams, 2 cans black olives, 2 cans turkey gravy, 2 cans cranberry sauce, 1 apple or pumpkin pie.

People requesting food: The complete dinners will be given away on Saturday November17^th during our normal Saturday morning give away. If you have special request of people looking for food please direct them to Renee Rehder.

Other Needs: With all the turkeys that are bound to come in Renee is looking for extra freezer storage for about a week. After all the turkeys come in on the 10^th and 11^th the Food Closet will need a place to store the turkeys and keep them frozen until the give away on the 17^th. If you or someone else can help please let Renee know r.rehder@gvcconline.net x204.