Are you cooking Thanksgiving dinner? If so, could you pick up a couple of extra cans of your favorite canned foods for the food pantry? If your family considers it a favorite, there are probably many food pantry clients who would like this same item. We emphasize food donations on the last Sunday of each month, but you can place your non-perishable food donations in the containers to the right of the sanctuary doors any time during the month.
Are you traveling for Thanksgiving? If so, please remember the homeless in our community. On any given night in McHenry County there are 167 homeless. Throughout the year last year there were 625 homeless at some point during the year. Twenty-eight percent of the homeless are children. The Mission Team is collecting items for personal needs of the homeless: handwarmers, travel size shampoo/conditioners/lotion, hand soap, razors, shaving cream, deodorant and washcloths. Please buy or donate one item this month for the PADS participants. Unused small soaps and shampoo/lotion containers are welcomed by PADS.
As you complete your blessing list, please pray for those who struggle making a list. Please listen to that small voice from your heart.
Christ United Methodist Mission Team