Souper Bowl of Caring
The Super Bowl is a good opportunity to gather in our Life Groups, and why not use this opportunity to help others and have a little competition of our own?!
Here are two ways Garnett Church of Christ leadership is encouraging our body to serve.
First, throw a Super Bowl party for your Life Group and invite your neighbors, co-workers, and friends to join you. Let’s take advantage of the opportunity to invite people to our homes and Life Groups so we can get to know each other. As you get to know one another, invite them to church, have The Story invitation cards available.
Second, call the party “Souper Bowl of Caring.” The Souper Bowl of Caring started nationally 20 years ago when a youth group prayed, “Lord, as we enjoy the Super Bowl, help us be mindful of those without even a bowl of soup to eat.” That thought sparked the Souper Bowl of Caring, and since then $71 million dollars has been raised for the Food Bank, where Garnett gets food to serve hundreds of needy families each year. We will be collecting cans as part of the national effort but distributing them right from Garnett, which is a Food Bank of Northeastern Oklahoma official location.
Here’s the competition. Let’s see which Life Group can collect the most cans, if we can collect more food than Connection Church; and most importantly how many cans total can we collect for Garnett’s Food Pantry!
After you collect at your Souper Bowl Parties, each Life Group can bring cans to Garnett & the final tallies will be announced on Sunday February 12th.
2012 Calendar
We have a handy calendar you can print out and hang in your house so you can remember all the events coming up at Garnett Church or Christ.
Don’t forget you can always check out the calendar page for the most up-to-date online version of church wide events.
Thanksgiving Meal
You are invited to a free Thanksgiving Dinner All are welcome!
Thursday, November 24, 2011, 11am – 1pm
If you would like to volunteer to help with the Thanksgiving Dinner, please contact Janet Collins at 918-663-3000 or email garnettinfo@gmail.com. We will be partnering with Connection Church. Volunteers are encouraged to eat lunch with our guests.
We are asking for donations to help purchase the items we will be providing—paper plates, plastic silverware, napkins, drinks, ice, butter.
Contact Christmas Store
This year we have the unique opportunity of partnering with the Contact Church Christmas Store.
The Store provides dignity to financially struggling folks by allowing them to purchase gifts for their children (babies–teens). Rather than receive a hand-out, they receive the toys/gifts at 25% of the original price. The money collected from the Christmas Store is used to sponsor summer youth programs, such as a no-cost camp for urban youth. Here is how you can help:
Go Shopping!
- Choose a gift that costs $8 – $25
- Choose a gift for a child from 0 to 16 years old.
- Do not wrap your gift
- Leave price tags ON
Gift Suggestions:
Baby/Toddler:
- Any toy for this age
Preschool:
- Small riding toys
- Einstein
- Big Cars
- Shopping cart
- Play dishes
- Play food
- Musical toys
- Workbenches
Elementary School Age:
- Building sets
- Roller skates
- Car or truck sets
- Play-doh
- Nerf toys
- Scooters
- Musical toys
- Remote control anything
- Leap frog educational toys
Jr. High and Up:
- Hand-held electronic games
- NFL,NBA, college teams caps,
- jersey’s, t-shirts, etc.
- Purses/billfolds
- Makeup gift bags
- Jewelry & jewelry boxes
- CD,DVD,MP3 players, Movies
- Skateboards
- Ear buds
- Video games
- $20 gift cards
Please include batteries if needed…
Drop your gifts off at Church
- Bring your toys UNWRAPPED and with the PRICE TAGS STILL ON to the toy collection box by Sunday, December 4th.
- Pray for 120 families to be touched by God’s grace.
Living Christ
Join us for a year of learning to live like Christ
Church Retreat Pictures
We had a great time at New Life Ranch last week. Here are a few pictures from the weekend:
More pictures can be found on our Facebook Page
If you could not make it to the retreat this year we hope you can join us next year!
Church at NLR this sunday!
Just a reminder, church will be at New Life Ranch on Sunday the 16th of October. You are welcome to join us there for church!
Financial Peace University
Outdoor Worship This Sunday
With great optimism for cooler weather we are planning an outdoor worship for Sunday, September 18, at 10 am. We will all meet under the grove and sit at picnic tables, chairs provided, or you can bring your own. There will be a sound system so it will be easy to hear.
There will be no classes; instead we will have outdoor fun activities. Please bring your own lunch, or pick something up, and stay awhile.
Invite your friends, family and neighbors to join us!
Zip Line Release Form
Here is a pdf of the zip line release form. Download the PDF here.
