MINISTRIES

COMMUNITY BREAKFASTS One week a month the signs go up at the church and around town, reminding the community that there will be a free community breakfast at First Christian on the next Saturday morning.  The breakfasts were conceived by Dave and Janet Hill, who wanted to give back because they have been so blessed by God.  The church family helps them by donations, serving and prayers.  It has become a regular event and on Christmas morning this year, an expanded breakfast was served along with gifts and carol singing.

WELCOME BAGS TO HELP WOMEN ANOTHER MINISTRY IN THE CHURCH is preparing "Welcome Bags" for women in a nearby group home who have come there with nothing, who are trying to straighten out their lives.  MARTY VANASKEY, church deacon, provides these bags with several personal items and a small stuffed animal, adding one of the small squares from Hershel.  These women feel God's love through these gift bags from total strangers.

THE DISCIPLES WOMEN'S MINISTRIES serves the community, including the Anchor House home for boys, Salvation Army, Women's Resource Center - most recently with paper goods and personal items for women who cannot buy such things with their food stamps, caps, booties, blankets for newborns, infants and toddlers clothing for Salvation Army shelter, school supplies, Christmas gifts for county foster childen.  They buy blankets for Church World Service, send postage stamps for U. S. Veterans, and send Campbell's Labels for Education to Woodhaven.