We will be praying for men and women that are faced with the decisions that must be made for those bringing a child into this world and for the Church that should be standing with them throughout their journey of faith.

The nation-wide

“40 Days for Life”

pro-life prayer vigil

started on September 23^rd and will end on November 1^st.

Locally we will be praying in front of

Planned Parenthood
1805 E. Division
Mt. Vernon
from 6am-6pm

and are hoping to have someone there throughout each day praying for those that are in their time of decision making. You can just come anytime, but it would be helpful if you could visit the 40 Days for Life website and volunteer for one, or more, of the one-hour time slots.

Also, we have signs available if you need one. For information, call Cindy at 360-333-2447 or George or Linda at 360-421-8811 or 360-421-8812. If you are unable to physically join with us, please join with us in prayer throughout the day.

“I love the Lord, for He heard my voice; He heard my cry for mercy. Because He turned His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.”

Psalms 116:1-2

“If My People, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My Face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

2 Chronicles 7:14

Teaching young people to be givers instead of takers

What a blessing to have the rain and the wind stop so the Harvest Kids could crush some of the many cans that our friends have donated to help these young people help vulnerable and less fortunate children in Africa. Afterwards, we shared the news that we had sold over 6,000 ears of sweet corn and along with the money raised from the Fellowship Ministries garage sale and a donation from a friend in Tennessee, there is enough money to purchase the property for the new primary school they are helping build in Africa and to begin construction. They have $3,250 and are hoping to help with the $4,200 remaining to finish the school. Today they started filling the bullet and will not count it until it is full.

A big bullet but they know they serve a big God.

Last Harvest Kids, two pumpkins were chosen to be used to make pumpkin pies and pumpkin bread and the kids guessed how many would come out of each pumpkin and then they guessed how many total pumpkin seeds were in both. The answer – 8 pies and out of the other 23 loaves of pumpkin bread and a total of 783 seeds. Thanks to Gary for making the pumpkin bread and Linda for making the pies.

We had a great gluten-free lunch and celebrated the September birthdays. We talked about how important it is that we share about Jesus with all of our family and friends and let them know we love them and Jesus does too.

We talked about how the seed of faith that God puts in our heart when we repent and receive His forgiveness is always working to bring others to God’s love and eternal life. A great time of faith, fun and fellowship as we left pondering this question knowing that we counted 783 seeds in those two small pumpkins. How many pumpkins are in one seed?

Each family was blessed with pie and bread to take home. We are thankful that some of the kids are also filling up shoeboxes for the Samaritan’s Purse Christmas ministry.

Please let us know if you would like to help.