The Great Day of Giving is a church-wide event that promotes giving to ministry partners and families in need in our community. This program offers children, youth, and adults an opportunity to prepare and deliver 75 Christmas food boxes. It includes activities such as making gifts and cards for our homebound. We will also have a special visit from Santa! He will give a blessing of the boxes, a word about giving, and will also be available for pictures.
The same morning, there will be an FUMC Missions Partners Fair for the entire congregation. This Fair will give our partners an opportunity to celebrate and share what they are doing in our community and offer ways to get involved. In this season of giving, you will have an opportunity to financially support these agencies directly at this time. Our ministry partners include Bright Bridge Ministries, Disaster Relief, Embrace Florida Kids, Family Promise, Gulf Coast Kids House, Milk and Honey, Ronald McDonald House, Serve the Hungry, Teaming with Tanzania, United Ministries and Weekend Feeding Program.
Great Day of Giving Food Drive
The Great Day of Giving Food Drive is a church-wide event to promote giving to families in need and to our ministry partners in the community. Each age group is asked to bring in the listed non-perishable items below by Sunday, November 24. We will prepare 75 food boxes at our Great Day of Giving event on December 8. We will have designated drop-off bins in the Church Office and Children’s Education Building. Monetary donations are also appreciated and used to purchase any items we don’t collect. Checks can be made payable to FUMC with the memo: Great Day of Giving and turned in to the front office.
MCA Preschool: Mac ‘n Cheese, Canned Ravioli, Canned Beefaroni, Spaghettios, Canned Chili
Children: Oatmeal, Canned Fruit, Canned Veggies, Rice
Youth: Peanut Butter, Jelly, Saltine Crackers
Adults: Pancake Mix (add water), Spaghetti Sauce, Spaghetti Noodles, Rice, Soup, Canned Veggies, Canned Fruit