What an amazing church! What an amazing year! Look at a few of the many people stepping forward to make this church go. (The list is far from complete. I don’t have time or space to include all who deserve recognition.)
Judy Hutchinson organized a gift of cookie boxes for the homeless. Our children decorated 140 small boxes. Our ladies filled them with the cookies they baked. Fred Griffith organized a workday. The hedges got trimmed, limbs got cut, debris and leaves go raked. Dalton Kirk organized a Men’s Breakfast. He is already planning the 3rd one. Our nursery is full of babies. Our youth are performing tonight just before the Choir sings. Scotty Ford-Jones sets up tables and chairs every week. Trae Ford-Jones takes our food gifts to Halifax Urban Ministries every month. Lou Herouart takes pictures. Lois Cox writes notes to guests. Ruth Bradley gives information about us to guests. Erma and Garfield Dreas serve us meals on Wednesdays. Look at today’s list of Children’s Church workers that runs through February, thanks to Joan Wood. Kathy Stryker has set up a Facebook page for New Hope and is working on our web site. Elaine Hardy does Children’s Sermons and edits Connections.
Look at our financial situation: We are $12,419 ahead of our 2011 budget goal. We have commitments of $135,000 toward our 2012 budget goal of $140,000 (rounded off figures). We already have $12,500 in our Building Fund, which we just started.
These things have happened in 2011. Some of them were already in place before then. And before then, all the way back to the foundation of the world, God loves us. Today we love God and we love each other. 2012 is going to be a good year for New Hope.
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