Community - Outreach

Bremerton Foodline
First Christian Church has had a long history with the Bremerton Foodline. We support them in several ways - through monthly food campaigns where certain items are targeted for donations, through monthly financial giving and through individual designations. The Newsette (the church newsletter) lists items each month to be collected.

Community Dinner
On the 2nd Wednesday evening of each month a group from our church provides a meal for the hungry at Our Savior's Lutheran Church. This includes planning the menu, purchasing the grocery items, preparing and serving the meal. Food preparation begins at 3:30 pm.

Crop Walk
Each fall, we take part in our local Crop Walk sponsored through Church World Services.  The Crop Walk is a community based fund raising event for local hunger-fighting agencies, international relief and development services. For more information visit www.cropwalk.org

The 2007 Crop Walk will take place on Saturday, September 29th at Evergreen City Park in Bremerton WA.  Registration begins at 9:30 am. This year you will be able to choose from a 3, 6, or 10 K walk.  For more information, please contact the local event organizer, Carol Grassman at (360) 698-3821.

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Helping Hands
Helping Hands is unique to our church. We created it as a way to lend a hand to those in need. People in need must go through an evaluation process for support.

Recycling For God
We have begun a program of collecting items to meet a variety of needs both in our community and in the world.

We are collecting used postage stamps for Christian Women United. Box-tops for Education, Campbell Soup labels, and empty black ink jet printer cartridges are being collected by and for the Naval Avenue School. Clean plastic containers, empty pill bottles, empty egg cartons, and plastic grocery bags are being collected to go to Bremerton Foodline. Covers of greeting cards are being collected by Christian Women United. Fabric is being collected for use by Our Saviour's Lutheran Church for quilts.

Week of Compassion
In February we conduct a fund raising campaign for the Week of Compassion, an outreach department of our denomination, which provides assistance throughout the world in times of disaster, war, and extreme human need. Donations can be made at anytime by designating your offering to Week of Compassion. This ministry is ongoing in its assistance to the many areas of need.

General Week of Compassion - www.weekofcompassion.org

Prayer Shawl Ministry
Shawls ... made for centuries are universal and embracing, symbolic of an inclusive, unconditionally loving, God. They wrap, enfold, comfort, cover, give solace, mother, hug, shelter and beautify. http://www.shawlministry.com/.

Shawls are initially donated to those in need of prayerful support within our own congregation & in time to a larger extended community family based on supply & need.

These very basic shawls may be knitted or crocheted. Basic knitting and/or crocheting skills are helpful, but the group is willing to teach volunteers. Volunteers may bring yarn that they wish to donate to make a shawl, but we also have donated yarn to use. Yarn should be soft, preferably machine washable. Knitted shawls require 555 yards & crocheted shawls require 740 yards of yarn. Knitting needles (sized 11 - 15) would be helpful, but we do have a few sets to loan if needed.

For those not interested in knitting, but would like to support the ministry, donations of yarn would be gratefully accepted.

The Prayer Shawl Ministry meets on the 3rd Saturday of the month at FCC Bremerton from noon to 3:00 p.m.

Please consider joining us for an afternoon of knitting and community! It will be a great deal of fun & an important way to support others. Bring a snack to share.

For additional information, please contact Michelle Dawson at 360-377-9463.

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