Norm’s Notes

10-23-15

Church News
BMP signup starts this Sunday. Sign up early if you want the same spot you have had in the past. It takes over 200 people to make Bethlehem Marketplace touch so many lives.  Christopher Yuan will be speaking in both services this Sunday. Come early. Second service attenders – remember the main parking lot will be full and you will be parking further from the church than normal. There is only one song and the announcements then the speaker starts – 50-55 minute family testimony. Invite the neighborhood. For the group at the singspiration last Sunday night – this is the song Cal was referring to. Powerful. FMC Kids have their own Facebook page. Check it out here. “Like” it too. Community Gift and Craft Show at Fairview is Saturday, November 7th.  Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes are due November 15. Our goal this year is 700 boxes. Many people would rather just give to this and let the kids pack the shoe boxes. A filled box costs about $25. You can also go online and fill a box for a closed country. Check it out here.
Do You Wonder…?
Is it true that the color of the woolly worms predicts the type of winter we will have? If so, I saw an all white woolly worm at my house. I don’t think I have ever seen one like it before. Does that mean a lot of snow? Also, I have seen several short woolly worms with the normal black on both ends and brown in the middle. Does the black mean cold and the short mean short? So, I wonder if we will have a short, cold winter with lots of snow. Just my observations from the woolly worms.
Project Help News
Project Help, the Community Food and Clothing Bank for under-resourced people in Steuben County, has 9,736 individuals in their active computer files – meaning that that many people have been helped at Project Help in the last two years. Their computer is programmed to move individuals to the inactive file if there has been no activity for two years. They touch about 2,200 families each year.  Project Help is gearing up for Thanksgiving. They will be helping about 350 families with Thanksgiving meals. The best way any of us can help is to purchase turkeys and hams of any size for Project Help or give financially. Project Help has already purchased all the rest of the food for Thanksgiving meals through the Meijer Simply Give double match program where Meijer takes a $10 donation and turns it in to $30 worth of food. Project Help cannot purchase turkeys from the Community Harvest Food Bank in Fort Wayne this year, their usual source, because Community Harvest does not have them available to purchase.  Your financial gift is much appreciated. Just drop it in the FMC offering marked “Project Help Thanksgiving.”
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