In 2014, 331,500 people were positively impacted by the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan. The Hunger Solution Center opened, doubling the capacity of the Food Bank as well as increasing the amount of fresh produce distributed from 4 million pounds to 12 million pounds. There are 400 partner agencies in...
Fourteen volunteers from our church traveled to the North End Soup Kitchen in Flint on Saturday, October 10, to prepare and serve a lunch to people in crisis. Larry Zimbler again headed up our meal preparation by deciding on a menu, obtaining the food and organizing our volunteers. We served...
Thank you to everyone who walked, rocked and donated to this year’s CROP Hunger Walk. The event took place from 1:30 – 3 at Bush Park on October 4. Each lap walked earned a ticket for the raffle drawings, the course had challenges throughout, rocking chairs were offered for those...
At the first youth group meeting this Fall, we split into 2 teams and hurried around town for 45 minutes to collect pictures for points. The group shown in this post did not win, however they were pretty creative! Both teams enjoyed large bags of candy as prizes 🙂 Below you’ll...
Volunteers from St. Jude’s Episcopal Church and the First Presbyterian Church of Fenton joined together to provide two homes in Flint with a “Brush With Kindness.” Habitat for Humanity organized a number of homes on the north end of Flint to have minor repairs as well as the exterior painted...
On Thursday, September 24, eleven of our members went together to the Empty Bowls fund raiser for the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan. This year the event was held in their new Hunger Solutions building. For $20.00, each person selected a ceramic bowl to take home as well as consumed...
With the help of First Presbyterian church of Fenton and Fenton Kiwanis 25 backpacks filled with school supplies, clothes and $40.00 payless gift cards were delivered. Thank you FFPC congregation for your continued support in helping others in need!
The “Mission” rotation runs through October 18th. Mission means to send out to serve or help others. Paul was the first missionary to the Gentiles, going from town to town, carrying the good news to many, and writing about it to others. As a result of Paul’s missionary efforts, new churches were...
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Church Challenge Scavenger Hunt last week. It was shared that this event had people visiting places in the church that they’d never been, and many learned a lot about our church history! Teams that answered everything correctly were the PNC, Chas & Cheryl...
We are happy to report that our Read & Feed program was a great success for our fourth year! We hosted 22 second and third grade readers from area elementary schools who had been identified as needing assistance with reading. We hoped to “jump-start” their fall schooling by providing them...
