Christmas Outreach Project “The Angel Tree”

In keeping with our congregation’s Christmas theme “Global Community,” the Angel Tree Project will serve four groups: members of El Buen Pastor Lutheran Church, Azleway foster children, the Village Learning Center in Kingwood, and ELCA World Hunger through the “Good Gifts” program.

The Angel Tree will be in the narthex on November 13, 2011. There will be four categories to choose from when you decide to be part of this project:

Angel cutouts will represent families and children from El Buen Pastor Lutheran Church. We will provide a gift for the children of this sister congregation and a grocery store gift card for each family to help ensure that each family from this congregation can share a Christmas meal together.

Hand cutouts will represent items needed for the Village Learning Center in Kingwood. The Village Learning Center is an organization that works to create the support and services needed to affect positive changes in the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities, their families, and our local community.

Child cutouts will represent foster children from Azleway Children’s Services, a foster care agency located in Humble but that serves children from 13 Texas counties surrounding Harris County. This year we will be giving to children who are coming into foster care right before Christmas who would otherwise have no gifts, as this has become a rising need.

Animal cutouts will represent animals that are part of the ELCA Good Gifts program with ELCA World Hunger. Each animal donated will be sent to a family in a needy community overseas.

The tree will be decorated with the Angels, Hands, Children, and Animals. The back of each cutout will give you more information about the group you have chosen and how to proceed. Your gifts will be due back on Sunday, December 11, 2011 for our big Christmas celebration.

Thanks you so much for your participation in this outreach project. If you have any questions, or would like to help with this project, please call Melissa Schiefelbein at 832-247-3683.

Thank you for participating in our annual Christmas outreach project. Please call Melissa Schiefelbein at 832-247-3683 with any questions.

Volunteers from Holy Comforter Lutheran Church in Kingwood are once again helping Jesus get His hands and feet out into the community and the world.  Volunteers from the group Martha Circle are sending over 100 quilts to Lutheran World Relief, who will send them around the world to those in need.  In preparation for their send-off, Holy Comforter Lutheran Church pastor Barb Bartling blessed the quilts in a special ceremony during the February 1^st, 2009 services at the church.  These quilts will join thousands of others collected from Lutheran churches both in the Evangelical Lutheran Church Association and the Missouri Synod to be sent around the world by Lutheran World Relief.

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