It was a really wonderful day this past Sunday at Forum. The baptisms of Kathleen Hunker, and Makenzie and Tate Fletcher were excellent. Justin Keith did a great job of preaching the attitude of God connected to sinners coming home. The spaghetti luncheon was the best attended that I’ve been to. Thanks for being a wonderful congregation.
Little did anyone know that such a wonderful day could turn so very deadly in another part of Missouri.
It was a really devastating and dark day physically speaking in Joplin, MO. When events like this occur on our fallen planet, this is when the body of Christ can shine the brightest.
Toward that end we have set ourselves up as a collection station. Items listed on the web can come to the garage where we will store it until Saturday. Simply park by the garage – enter into it by the marked side door and deposit your items there. Items that are greatly needed are: Food, formula, diapers, and wipes.
Creative Granite and Quartz volunteered trucks to transport items to Joplin.
We’re partnering with Christ’s Church of Oronogo and “The Bridge” (for those of you who attended “old Forum” ala Westside – this is the ministry Dan Mitchell established and runs) as places to distribute items.
There has already been close to $15,000 in plywood donated that will be transported via semi.
KOMU is hosting a telethon tomorrow night that will run from 5-9 on the internet with 2 hours of live air time being devoted to raising money for Joplin.
Our youth ministry decided to change their mission trip to go to Joplin. While this change is occurring essentially one month out, the ties within our congregation to Joplin run very deep so Justin Keith is changing the mission destination as well as coordinating with local arrangements there. His sister works(ed) at the hospital that was hit so hard.
Come prepared to give over and above tithes and offerings. We’ll have a collection station in the lobby for you to give. 100% goes directly to Joplin relief. We know many of you have given in other places such as the United Way or via text messaging. We’re not doing this so we can say, “Forum gave this much…” but rather we’re trying to make it easy for you to give toward these efforts.
Body of Christ, let’s rise up to help meet needs within our state. – Scott
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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