Missions Team
Our Missions Team helps us stay connected to the community. Here is a little more information about our community partners, and the basket auction hosted by Missions.
Missions Basket Auction
The basket auction is always the Saturday before Thanksgiving. The auction is hosted by Missions, to help benefit our community partners (listed below.) Members of the church and community can participate by donating baskets, attending the auction, and bidding on baskets.
In 2014 our auction made approximately $14,000. It was disbursed among our local ministry partners: Open House Ministries, YWCA Safe Choice, Friends of the Carpenter, Share Inc. and Vancouver Seafarers. We can’t be everywhere but we can support these great agencies who help those with a ‘hand up’! Examples of how those dollars were used in each ministry:
Open House Ministries: Refurbish 25 rooms for new residents, and/or purchase a pair of shoes, a bus pass or a child’s backpack for 50 people.
Share Inc: Provide food filled packs for 25 children and their families through the backpack program, and/or feed 250 children for a weekend each month
Friends of the Carpenter: Love Purchase love gifts of food cards, bus tickets or gas vouchers to 250 people, and/or help with delinquent fines, child support or auto insurance payments for 100 people
Safe Choice: Hhelp with prescription costs for 250 people and/or provide gas vouchers for doctordr. appointmentts and job interviews for 100 people and/or provide ID replacements for 50 people
Vancouver Seafarers: Purchaseding required ID passes for staff and/or provide gas for ½ a week for vans to pick up incoming sailors to access services for 50 timespeople.
Missions Basket Auction
The basket auction is always the Saturday before Thanksgiving. The auction is hosted by Missions, to help benefit our community partners (listed below.) Members of the church and community can participate by donating baskets, attending the auction, and bidding on baskets.
In 2014 our auction made approximately $14,000. It was disbursed among our local ministry partners: Open House Ministries, YWCA Safe Choice, Friends of the Carpenter, Share Inc. and Vancouver Seafarers. We can’t be everywhere but we can support these great agencies who help those with a ‘hand up’! Examples of how those dollars were used in each ministry:
Open House Ministries: Refurbish 25 rooms for new residents, and/or purchase a pair of shoes, a bus pass or a child’s backpack for 50 people.
Share Inc: Provide food filled packs for 25 children and their families through the backpack program, and/or feed 250 children for a weekend each month
Friends of the Carpenter: Love Purchase love gifts of food cards, bus tickets or gas vouchers to 250 people, and/or help with delinquent fines, child support or auto insurance payments for 100 people
Safe Choice: Hhelp with prescription costs for 250 people and/or provide gas vouchers for doctordr. appointmentts and job interviews for 100 people and/or provide ID replacements for 50 people
Vancouver Seafarers: Purchaseding required ID passes for staff and/or provide gas for ½ a week for vans to pick up incoming sailors to access services for 50 timespeople.
Mission Trip: Pateros
Mission's Team is planning another trip to Pateros to help rebuild the town after the devastating fires of 2014.
The trip is planned for the week of July 24, 2016. Watch for more updates!
The trip is planned for the week of July 24, 2016. Watch for more updates!
