After worship this coming Sunday morning (12/17), you will have the opportunity, alongside catching up with friends and pewmates, over coffee, tea, and cookies, to do a little last minute shopping, and with a conscience to boot!
Cindy Sending and our youngest youth group will host an alternative gift fair, which is an opportunity to purchase gifts for friends and family at the last moment, by giving a gift in their name to one of three cool charities. We will give you a card to send to your family member or friend, saying that you’ve donated to “x” charity in their honor. The three charities are:
- Heifer Project International — This organization has been around for decades and also leverages the power of small gifts to multiply across time and geographic region by harnessing the power of animals to provide and reproduce and people to share.
- World Bicycle Relief Organization — Another relatively new organization, this charity is dedicated to the idea that bicycles are the means for a vast majority of people in this world to get a leg up. In the vast majority of areas of the world, walking is the one guaranteed mode of transport. A bicycle offers the real and immediate benefit through access to goods, services and especially education for women. “Powered by the remarkable human spirit, bicycles are a catalyst to possibilities.”
- Healthy Homeworks — The newest charity on our list, Healthy Homeworks was started by two friends of Peter’s in Portland, ME. The project began because Amy and Nate Smith wanted to purchase property to make available for rental in the up and coming community of Lewiston, ME. When they got there they discovered that the properties were infested with bed bugs. Healthy Homeworks provides free beds to anyone willing to provide 6 -8 hours of sweat equity. They come into the factory in Lewiston and build a bed for themselves and two other beds to sell.
Please come and do your last minute Christmas shopping with us!