Posted on May 8, 2008 at 9:31am.
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Church at Charlotte will host a blood drive for the Community Blood Center (CBCC) on Saturday, May 10 from 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in W - 2. You can register by clicking here.
According to CBCC’s website, “About 4 million people need blood each year—one every 12 seconds. Our local hospitals transfuse more than 100,000 blood components every year. When we think of the need for blood, we often think of emergencies, but for thousands of Americans, transfusions are a way of life. People who suffer from cancer, heart disease, leukemia and other major illnesses need blood on a regular basis to survive.”
Donors must be at least 17 years of age. The donation process takes about an hour. Each donor gives about a pint of blood. All blood donations are processed and available for use between 24 and 48 hours.
CBCC is an independent, non-profit blood center. Hospitals that receive blood from CBCC are: Carolinas Medical Center, Carolinas Medical Center—Mercy, Carolinas Medical Center - Pineville, Carolinas Medical Center—University; Gaston Memorial Hospital, Gastonia, NC; NorthEast Medical Center, Concord, NC; Rock Hill, SC; and Presbyterian Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital Matthews and Presbyterian Orthopedic Hospital in Charlotte, NC.
Posted on May 2, 2008 at 7:49am.
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Church at Charlotte thanks Helen Patterson for the 10 years of service she has given to TOT Time, our weekday preschool program.
Helen joined the teaching team after hearing a message at church challenging her to use her giftedness with children. As a 3-day pre-k teacher, her favorite part of TOT Time is loving her students and being loved in return. She is married to Dick, and has two grown sons. She says the best gift she has ever received is her grandchildren.
Helen has been an important part of the TOT Time team and she will be missed - but we are excited for the new plans God has for her!
Posted on April 30, 2008 at 12:05pm.
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It’s not a hard job…but an important one. You don’t do it every week…just every once in awhile.
The greeting team in the Video Cafe could use some additional help at both our 9:30 and 11:00 services. If you’re a regular Cafe attender and want to be involved with this team, please contact Lyndsay Krueger by clicking .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and she will put you in contact with Jill Archer (9:30) or Alicia Collins (11:00) for more information.
Posted on April 22, 2008 at 2:41pm.
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On select communion weekends (and at other designated times of the year), it’s our custom to collect special offerings for needs that arise outside our annual budget. Because of the health of our Barnabas fund, we have not taken up a special offering the last two months. Our ServeGlobal team has identified two areas in which we want to offer assistance, and this weekend (April 26 and 27), we will collect a special offering at the end of each service for these efforts.
Dave Ralston, director of ServeGlobal, writes:
Voice of Hope Ministries; Haiti:
The E Free church operates three churches and a school in northern Hatti through a ministry named Voice of Hope Ministries (www.vohmhaiti.com). Missionaries Henoc and Guerline Lucien are working alongside other Haitian Christians in the city of Cap Haitien. Food is available in boats at the port, but the government is choosing to let its people starve rather than release the food. The government is holding the food by charging exorbitant import taxes to repay debt owed by the government to the international community.
The most immediate need is to provide food for the children at the school and for families in the churches. Pastor Henoc has a plan that can get the children fed and food to the families. For $65, the church will provide a family a supply of rice, beans and cooking oil sufficient to feed the family for a month. In addition the financial support will insure that the school which has food for a few more weeks is able to continue to feed the children.
The issues in Haiti are complicated and will not be solved easily. However, if we could help in a small way with credible people in our EFree church I believe it would be a source of encouragement. The closing paragraph of the Sunday Observer speaks volumes. In the sprawling slum of Haiti’s Cite Soleil, Placide Simone, 29, offered one of her five offspring to a stranger. “Take one, she said” cradling a listless baby and motioning towards four rail-thin toddlers, none of whom had eaten that day. “You pick, just feed them.”
African Christians Fellowship International (ACFI); Liberia
African Christians Fellowship International (ACFI) is an indigenous church and church-planting ministry dedicated to spreading the gospel in West Africa. Since it was founded in 1986, over 280 churches have been established in 6 countries in the sub-Saharan region of West Africa with Liberia being the primary country of influence. Due to the effects of fourteen years of civil war in Liberia, ACFI has maintained two orphanages near the capital city for over a decade. Nearly 500 children are in their care at this time. Without government support programs and an 85% unemployment rate in the country, the ministry depends primarily on donations from fellow believers around the world to continue to care for the children. At this time, ACFI is in dire need of our assistance. The teachers at the orphanages recently returned to their homes after many months of not being able to receive pay, and the caretakers at the orphanage are only able to buy food for the children as donations come in, so that the children have had to go hungry many times as they wait for more funds.
Please keep these efforts in your prayers, and if at all possible, participate in our special offering this weekend.
Posted on April 17, 2008 at 2:46pm.
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We would like to invite you to Jackson Park’s Family Day on April 27 at 2:00 p.m. at Jackson Park Ministries (in the Gym). Click here for a map of where Jackson Park is located.
This fun-filled afternoon is a great way to get involved and fellowship with one of our partnering ministries! We will serve lunch and provide an afternoon of music and recreation for the resident families.
Click here to find out more about this neighborhood ministry.
