Serve with Joy!
Contact the church office
if you would like to be a part of a specific mission project!
Is the Lord asking you to start a ministry?
Respond with enthusiasm! Let us know how we can help you.
Begin filling shoeboxes with small gifts, toiletries,
and snacks to send to children around the world. All boxes are to be
returned to the church by November 16. Please enclose $7 with each
box for postage.
The FREE Coat Give-Away was held on Saturday, Oct
11 at the Community Center in downtown Carthage. 46 Coats were given
out to families in the community. Thank you for all of your donations
and help!
God has blessed us with the
opportunity to continue to work with the Carpenters House 2 in the Lower
Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Donations of appliances,
furniture, clothes, musical instruments, books, toys, and money will
continue to be collected until God says to stop. Please deliver your
donations to The Ridge during office hours OR call the office to arrange
pick-up or delivery. Items will be stored at the Goodpaster's barn or at the
Saunder's barn. God may also make available a storage shed that can be
placed at the church for donations. Go God!
A Discovery Toy Drive is being held in November to
benefit Carpenters House 2. Toys can be ordered for a needy family and
shipped directly to CH2 in New Orleans. These toys will be given out
on Christmas Eve. Another option is to order toys for someone on your
gift list. The bonuses earned from these purchases will go to sending
more toys to CH2. Order forms and more information are available at
the church.
Pastor Oliver Duvernay from
Central Missionary Baptist Church in
the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans
will be visiting Indiana and the Ridge sometime this
fall. Donations are being accepted for this much needed vacation.
Contact the church office if you would like to contribute.
Food Pantry
A community Food Pantry
is open from 8-10 AM on the 2nd & 4th Saturdays of each month. Other times are available by
appointment. Items that are needed: any
non-perishable food, bread, hot dogs, bologna, any luncheon meat, hamburger,
laundry detergent, toilet paper, dish soap, ibuprofen, childrens pain
reliever, diaper wipes, diapers, bar soap, shampoo, bandaids.
Donations can be taken to the church for storage and/or distribution.
Children's clothes and shoes are also needed. This ministry is
being led by Robin Goodpaster. Contact the church office for
more information or to become involved. Volunteers are needed to help
with distribution and stocking. Sign up at the church or e-mail the
church office.
Help! Robin needs help! The Walnut Ridge Food Pantry
is now part of a network that distributes food in the central Indiana area.
Large supplies of food are brought to the church to be distributed each
month. This ministry is rapidly growing as more people struggle to
meet their bills. Help is needed to: pick up food, meet and pray
with clients, and sort and stock the shelves. Call us if you want to
help.
Missions projects:
Walnut Ridge Food Pantry, Emergency funds for local families,
Christmas gifts for local families, Quaker Haven Camp, Changing Footprints
Ministry, Operation Shoebox,
Hurricane Katrina relief through Charles & Judy Dillon & Carpenters
House 2, Reconstruction of
Central Missionary Baptist Church in New Orleans, Friends Boys School in
Belize City, Belize, Packets for the Sudan.
'Changing
Footprints' Ministry........ Please bring in new or
gently used shoes to be distributed to those who need them. Pastor
Bruce will deliver the shoes to Rushville where they are distributed.
News from New Orleans
Missionaries: Charles & Judy Dillon!
Judy is recovering from surgery to remove a
cancerous kidney. The surgeon said the operation went "better than
great" and she is slowly recuperating. Continue to pray for Charles
and Judy both as she tries to stay "down" for the next few weeks. God
is so good!
Check out the
website....
www.crescentcitycarpentershouse.org. to see pictures of Chip the
Cow and his trip to New Orleans with Josh, Sarah, Mindy, and Vanna!
Ways you can help in the Lower Ninth Ward:
- Pray
- Send $$$ or gift cards for WalMart,
Home Depot or Lowe's. Many homeless people are living under
"the big bridge" on the edge of the lower ninth ward. Judy and
Charles go to this area and hand out sandwiches, bottled water, and a
bag of chips. WalMart gift cards would help pay for the food for
this outreach.
- Go!!!