OutREACH Updates, Events and Serving Opportunities

Hello, OutREACH Team Members!

Get ready to mark your calendar. This fall we have some great opportunities and ways to serve. Here are a couple updates, needs, and upcoming events to keep you in the know.

OutREACH Team Meeting: Thursday November 17at 7:00 pm * Mooresville Campus. Find out how to get connected and serve outside the walls of the church. You’ll hear about upcoming serving events with Christmas at The Cove and 2012 mission trips. You’ll also hear a bit about all the different ministries we support and how YOU can make a difference.

Christmas at The Cove Serving Opportunities: Looking for a way to impact lives this Christmas season? Join with us in changing lives, hearts, and communities through sharing the love of Jesus Christ. There will be many serving opportunities available across all three campuses. Opportunities include decorating, event planning, handing out tags and shoeboxes during the weekend services, sorting shoeboxes, shopping, database entry, wrapping, and more. If you are interested, please e-mail Kim Pech at kpech@covechurch.org for additional details and how to get involved. The work and love that you pour into this ministry means the world to children and their families.

Poverty Awareness Week: Did you know one in five children live in poverty and one in seven Americans now live below the poverty line? Poverty Awareness Week is November 13 through 19. Mooresville Christian Mission is looking for volunteers to help with stuffing envelopes, mailings and preparation for the events planned that week. Volunteers are also needed to help with set up for events through the week. If you are interested, please e-mail Suzanne Dewosky at volunteer@ourchristianmission.orgfor additional details and how to get involved or go to www.mooresvillechristianmission.org.

Give Back Boutique: The Give Back Boutique is looking for volunteers with retail experience to help run the consignment clothing store located off Brawley School Road in Mooresville. The boutique supports Mooresville Christian Mission, and what makes this shop unique is that 100% of proceeds go to serve families in our community, especially those with children. Money raised helps to fund Crisis Assistance Programs helping families in danger of hunger or homelessness. If you have retail experience and would like to volunteer please e-mail Suzanne Dewosky at volunteer@ourchristianmission.org. The boutique is also accepting gently used clothing. To donate visit them at 478 D Williamson Road, Mooresville.

 2012 Upcoming Mission Trips:

2012 Honduras Shoebox Trip: February 25 - March 3, 2012. Our commitment is to deliver approximately 5000 shoeboxes to 15+ villages but our divine assignment is to share the gospel with children and youth. The trip cost is $1500, and open to adults 18 and older, or those 16 years of age with a parent or guardian. The deadline to apply and have all funding in is January 9, 2012. To apply for this trip, or for additional information, please e-mail trip leader Steve Byrd at sbyrd517@roadrunner.com.

2012 Honduras Stove Installation Mission Trips: 2 trips planned April 21 – April 28 and April 28 – May 5. The Cove is taking teams to Honduras to install stoves and share the love of God. Many typical stoves are not vented to the outside, meaning that smoke and particulates build up inside the home. This team will install stoves vented on the outside, whose benefits include much higher air quality and much lower wood use. The trip cost is $1500 and open to adults 18 and older, or those 16 years of age with a parent or guardian. The deadline to apply and have all funding in is March 12, 2012. To apply, or for additional information, please e-mail trip leader Barry Brewington at barryton@windstream.net.

2012 South Africa Mission Trip: May/June 2012. The Cove is partnering with local churches to help them reach more people for Christ and will be working with orphans and child-headed households for “light" construction projects. Trip cost is approximately $3000 and open to adults 18 and older. To apply, or for additional information, please e-mail trip leader Kris Lamb at ncgofer@aol.com.

Opportunities to serve 24/7: Looking for ways to get or stay connected this fall? Check out the Cove on Mission blog at http://coveonmission.blogspot.com. You can also keep up-to-date with OutREACH by going to http://coveoutreach.blogspot.com. 

Thank you for impacting our community and world by going beyond the walls of the church to "Be the Church!"

Lori West