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CHURCHES REA SERVING OUR Many of our churches across PennDel have committed to reaching out to their communities by connecting with service departments, shelters, and schools. Here are a few testimonies of how several churches are serving the local schools in their communities. AT RURAL COMPASSION, we where inspired to build on the relationships with stakeholders in our community. While we already had somewhat of a relationship with our schools, we wanted to commit to taking it to a higher level. Since then, we have continuously taken “gifts” to different areas of the school, including snacks to the elementary school, health items to the school nurse, sports drinks to the athletic directors, cleaning goods to the Life Skills classrooms and more. We further partner with the Life Skills program by having students come to the church once a week to clean. This assists them in gaining job skills for outside work when they are ready to leave school, and it is a blessing to us as well. We, in turn, provide a Christmas dinner party for them as well as an Easter egg hunt. The social worker for the school district reached out to us and asked if we would be willing to host a summer reading program. We happily agreed and they provided books to use, including several VeggieTales and Max Lucado books. What an amazing opportunity! Bridges are definitely being built in Windsor, PA as a result of saying “we are going to be the stakeholder in our community that we are meant to be!” To God be the glory! Chris & Cheryl Golembiowski Windsor Assembly of God LEROY AND I have been blessed to serve in God’s beautiful community of Galeton, PA for two years. In this short period of time, God has expanded our influence and multiplied His ministry for His glory. One area of influence we have had in our community is within the local school. We continue to build and add relationships through blessing departmental staff with gifts of love and other things they need. We frequently stop by to offer encouragement and a listening ear. This allows us to get to know their needs and desires. We can then act and provide for them. We also intentionally partner with the school principal by supporting, encouraging and cheering for him. We don’t come in with our ideas or our agendas, but rather with the heart of a servant. Our desire is to be a blessing to the school. As we continue to love the Lord and the community He has placed us in, we are excited about the upcoming opportunities that God has in store. LeRoy & Wanda Bunker Lighthouse Community Church 10 | Network connexions | Spring 2019
HOME MISSIONS Tom Rees 717.795.5921 tom@penndel.org CHING OUT SCHOOLS HOLLENTOWN IS A SMALL, rural village. Becky and have pastored here for over ten years, and it has been great to reconnect with my home area in many ways. One of the main ways we connect with the community is the relationship we have made with our school nurse. We have given supplies (band aids, ointment cream, thermometers, etc.), for which she is very appreciative. In one conversation, we asked her to let us know of anything else we could help with. From that meeting, Becky took on, as a personal project, supplying feminine hygiene products and boy’s deodorant. We have also been able to develop a relationship with the music department at the school. The products we received through Rural Compassion allowed us to send boxes of snacks for over a hundred music students on a trip to Florida. The teachers and chaperones were so appreciative of the contribution. Another outcome of this relationship was being asked to come as a chaplain to minister to the drama students when a tragedy occurred among the group. We are blessed to have progressing relationships with many throughout our school district! Joe & Becky Hollen Hollentown Assembly of God For more information and to register for Rural Compassion, visit www.penndel.org Network connexions | Spring 2019 | 11
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