Our Church is located in the
scenic Hocking Hills region of Hocking County near Cantwell Cliffs
State Park. We are a small country church with a regular attendance of
30 to 35 and on occasion we sometimes have 45 to 50 in attendance.
The 30 Hour Famine
The youth of our church usually participate each year in World
Vision's international 30 hour famine. This is a program where the
youth fast for 30 hours to get a feeling of what it is like for the
children in starving countries. In 2001 they collected $965.00,
in 2004 $1557.00 and in 2005 $2209.00 in sponsor money. To help pass
the
time during the famine the youth did many activities such as bowling,
basketball and wiffle ball. They viewed educational videos of hunger
around the world. The youth also did volunteer work at the regional
food
bank in Logan. The fast is broken by a short program and carry in
dinner
with the whole church congregation. For further information you can
go to www.30hourfamine.org
The national dates for the famine are in February. ( But you can do it
anytime.)
West Pleasant Hill Church Packs Shoe Boxes Every Year For
Operation Christmas Child.
For the past several years West Pleasant Hill U.B Church (Rockbridge
Ohio) participated in Operation Christmas Child. Everyone at the Church
enjoys shopping for and filling a shoe box with small gifts each year.
Some of the members of the congregation make this a year long project.
Through out the year they will keep an eye out during their routine
shopping trips for that very
special gift to add to their shoe box. Each box is filled with several
items
and marked for a boy or a girl of one of three different age groups.
Bud
& Linda Goss the local coordinators at West Pleasant Hill comment.
"It
really touches our hearts when we take the shoe boxes to the regional
drop
off point. It is a great sight to see the many volunteers working with
the
thousands of shoe boxes that will be packed into the trucks". The
congregation at West Pleasant Hill hopes that if your Church has not
already participated in Operation Christmas Child that maybe it can
next year. It is not too early to start shopping right now. The shoe
boxes need to be in to the collection points before Thanksgiving each
year.
What is Operation Christmas Child
This program is operated by Franklin Graham & The Samaritan's Purse
Organization. More information can be found by visiting http://www.samaritanspurse.org
or by calling 1-800-353-5949.
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