Mission

Shooting for Lives

Basketball Net

$10 a Person - 10 Free Throws

2:30pm Registration
2:30 - 3:45pm Free Throw Shooting Contest
3:45pm Awards

100% of your registration fee will support Feed My Starving Children.

Registration forms are available using the link below. If you cannot participate, consider sponsoring someone for the contest. The mission event is planned and run by the 5th and 6th grade Sunday school class!

Location: 
Gym
Date: 
Sunday, April 15, 2012 - 2:30pm

Senior High Mission Trip

The Senior High Mission Trip will be taking place from July 22nd to July 28th. More information will be available soon.

Date: 
Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 12:00pm

Jr. High Mission Trip

The Junior High is once again heading to Roger's Park! Preliminary sign-ups will be available soon. If you'd like to come, or chaperone, please contact JJ Mannschreck asap.

Location: 
Roger's Park, IL
Date: 
Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 12:00pm

Dogs, Frogs and a Pink Moon

March 3, 2012 - 8:13am

SumaSuma, the dog we rescued from the street early on New Year's Day, has a new sister, "Wawita!" The name is Aymara for "Baby." Suma's a whole lot bigger than when we found her. And mercifully, she ditched puppyhood when we bought Wawita. The little one was frisking around outside a hostel we walk by on our way to and from the market. We asked if she was for sale and learned that, yes, we could buy her for 40 Bolivianos.

30 Hour Famine!

The 30 Hour Famine is a Lock-In style Youth event of fun and fellowship combined with raising awareness of the global hunger crisis. Youth come to the Church on Friday afternoon after school and stay through the night until about 4:30pm on Saturday. There will be tons of games and group activities along with some free time and maybe even some sleeping! We are flexible on scheduling if people need to come late, leave early or leave for a time and come back. After our famine is over, we will break our fast together with a community meal! Youth are encouraged to raise donations to send to the hungry, but they can also just come to learn and have some fun! For more information check out www.30hourfamine.org or contact JJ Mannschreck.

Location: 
Open Door Youth Room
Date: 
Friday, February 24, 2012 - 3:00pm

Ash Wednesday Soup & Sandwich Dinner

NIU Wesley Foundation

College students from the Wesley Foundation at NIU invite you to a Soup & Sandwich dinner fundraiser on Ash Wednesday, February 22 at 5:30PM in the gym. Funds will go towards their social justice spring break mission trip to Trinidad! On the mission trip, NIU students will work with other young adults in Trinidad to create an original, multi-cultural, interfaith Bible study - which will be available on YouTube following their trip. This is an exciting opportunity for N.I.U. students and they invite you to partner with them!!

Suggested donation is $6.00 and will be received at the door. If you would like to help the students serve supper or if you have any questions, please contact the NIU Wesley Foundation Campus Pastor Kelli Beard at krbeard@fastmail.fm or 773.882.8012.

Thank you for your prayerful support and they look forward to being with you on Ash Wednesday!

Location: 
Gym
Date: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 5:30pm

New Puppy, A Flood, and Undies

January 2, 2012 - 8:26pm

Suma - our new puppyAt last: We have a puppy! We found her shivering in the street at 12:45 a.m., New Years Day. So we named her Suma, which is Aymara for “Happy,” as in Happy New Year. She likes a dry house, a warm lap, puppy chow, and ... chewing everything!

Alas, last night, a dry house was not to be had. Torrential rains and three inches of hail pelted down for more than an hour. The din was so loud we had to shout to hear each other. Then the floor drains in the kitchen, powder room and bathroom simultaneously started gushing muddy water. Two good things about that: it wasn’t sewerage; and after lots of squeegeeing and mopping, our floors are now spotless! Hooray!

Suma Machaqa Mara!

December 31, 2011 - 7:02pm

At the meat marketThat's Aymara for Happy New Year! Today, New Year's Eve, the streets in Copacabana are chock full of people buying and selling in anticipation of a whole lot of celebrating. One of our favorite meat vendors, Marta, told us "Here everyone eats pork (cerdo) on New Year's Eve." Indeed, every butcher shop is displaying still-hairy pig heads and whole, split-bellied pigs piled five or six deep. So guess what we are having tonight...

30 Hour Famine

30 Hour Famine

Severe drought in the Horn of Africa has left more than 11 million people in need of our help. 30 Hour Famine is nationwide movement of teenagers who refuse to accept the status quo, who stand together to make a difference. Starvation, disease, and poverty are not acceptable - and we can do something about it! Join us in our famine as we raise awareness and funds for those who need our help in the Horn of Africa!

For more information, please contact JJ Mannschreck at 248 219 8598 or by email at jj.mannschreck@garrett.edu. We are also in need of chaperones and adult supervision for this event.

Location: 
Open Door
Date: 
Friday, February 24, 2012 - 10:00am

Advent Family Workshop

Feed My Starving ChildrenChildren and Family Ministries has reserved 90 places on Saturday, December 17 from 2:00PM to 4:00PM at Feed My Starving Children, in Aurora, IL. For those of you not familiar with FMSC, they are a non-profit organization whose mission is: "Feeding God's Starving Children Hungry in Body and Spirit." It is a very fulfilling and rewarding experience to give the gift of your time to this organization and help feed thousands of children.

We will be helping to create nutritional food packets which will be shipped to areas in need around the world. Minimum age to volunteer is 5 years old. Childcare will be provided at the church. Transportation will not be provided but carpooling is encouraged. Please contact Sharon in the Church office (630.968.7120) to register for this meaningful service opportunity. Space will fill up fast!

Location: 
FMSC - 555 Exchange Court, Aurora, IL 60504
Date: 
Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 2:00pm

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