Christmas Love Offering

Christmas Love Offering

Goal:  $22,150.00

Celebrate God’s ultimate gift to us by giving to those in need throughout our local community in the form of a Christmas Love Offering.

The Christmas Season is a time to celebrate the birth of our savior and give of ourselves to others.  Our church tradition has been to celebrate God’s ultimate gift to us by giving to those in need throughout our local community in the form of a Christmas Love Offering. Many in our community continue to be unemployed and homeless, and the continued stresses are adding up to put the vulnerable even more at risk.  The Board of Outreach has selected local agency recipients with an emphasis on agencies helping children most.

Your gift will help many people with a variety of special needs in our community. The 20 agencies were selected for this year after careful analysis by the Board of Outreach. They are listed that you may review them yourself on the Internet.

Your gift of will reach out to help children and adults with many needs this 2011 in Sarasota as we focus on 20 special organizations who so wonderfully come to their aid. Who? Where? Learn more details about the organizations and who they help by clicking on their web site or by calling First Congregational UCC.

• All Faiths Food Bank   www.allfaithsfoodbank.org
• Alta Vista School children's emergency fund
• Also Out Youth  www.alsoyouth.org
• Baby Basics
• Bethesda House www.stmartha.org
• Brothers and Sisters Doing The Right Thing  www.BrothersandSistersDoingtheRightthing.org
• Children First Head Start   www.childrenfirst.net
• Childrens' Guardian Fund  www.gardianadleiten.org
• Chid protection www.CPCsarasota.org
• Community Haven www.chachaven.com
• Family Promise www.familypromisesarasota.org
• Orchard Place (Lifelink)  (low rent housing)
• Resurrection House  www.resurrectionhousesarasota.org
• Student Emergency Fund www.thepattersonfoundation.org
• Sararitan counseling Center   www.samaritangulfcoast.com
• Second chance last opportunity  www.secondchancelastoportunity.org    
• Salvation Army  drug/alcohol program  www.salvationarmysarasotafl.org
• Safe Place for  www.sparcc.org
• SURE (Sarasota United for Responsibility and Equality)  www.suresarasota.org
• United Church of Christ Christmas Fund   www.ucc.org

Your Christmas Love Offering (including contributions made on line) will be blessed and received during all Advent  & Christmas Worship Services  Celebrate Christmas with us! (1031 South Euclid Ave (off Bahia Vista).

No matter who you are or where you are or where you are on your life’s journey you are welcome!