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Church School Offering
Each year, ELPC church school students of all ages participate
in an ongoing offering that supports an international mission
project. This year, our offering will be donated to the
Motherwell Women’s Collective in Motherwell, South Africa.
This group may sound familiar to
many of you, as this is the same group which received support
through the money raised during the youth’s 30-Hour Famine. Our
offerings last spring helped to rehab eight homes, provide
anti-retroviral medicine to a family fighting HIV / AIDS, pay
for the school fees for six South African girls, buy blankets
and sleeping mats for the day care center, make food donations
to the area food bank and day care center, and purchase three
sewing machines for a job training program for women.
Even with these substantial
donations, a dire need exists for the families in this area, and
we are called to help. Each Sunday through the school
year, a collection will be taken during the church school hour
that will go to support these families and help to break the
cycle of poverty in their region. Envelopes will be provided to
children, and they will be invited to place their donations in
offering baskets in their classrooms. To learn more about
Motherwell, South Africa, please view the bulletin board on the
Second Floor.
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