Area Seed Packing Event - Celebration of Hope

Over 1400 volunteers served over the weekend at our site. We had individual volunteers, couples, families, small groups, friends, and neighbors that served together to accomplish this wonderful event in our community. It was great to partner with Area Pastor John Eiermann and people from the Jacobs/Huntley area. There were seven 2 hour shifts that made up the largest serving site to date as part of Willow’s three week Celebration of Hope 2010 event!

We produced: 229 cases of family packs, equaling 45,800 individual family packs, made up of 229,000 individual seed packs of radish, broccoli, onion, carrots and tomato seeds. During the introduction we talked about the potential of the “mustard seed”, the smallest of all seeds that grows into the largest tree in the forest. The seeds we packed, over the weekend at our site alone, have the potential to produce 45.8 million pounds of food. It is hard to believe – only God.

You the volunteers who served over the weekend never cease to amaze me. Your willingness to donate your time, energy and effort to serve the needs of the poor in such a substantial way is nothing short of a huge win for the Kingdom of God here on earth. In addition to that, you inspire me, inviting family, friends and neighbors to enjoy the gift of participation in service to the Kingdom and its rich blessings.

Thank you to Bob Kuehn owner of Nationwide Freight who donated the space we used for our event. And thanks to all of you, who volunteered, putting your hands and feet to use, working to solve the real issue of hunger for brothers and sisters in our world. Well done good and faithful servants, well done.

Day 2 - Food Challenge - Celebration of Hope

Day 2 is here - my family is really crabby, but we were all kind of aware of why. And it led to a great discussion around the table last night of how hard it is for kids and parents in Africa to get along with each other when everyone is hungry and frustrated because there is not enough food. It gives us perspective.

We Pray:
We pray for those around the global who don't get enough to eat, may we have compassion on them and act in ways to help. Stir our hearts for our brothers and sisters around the global in need and may we reach out to those who are far from you and offer a helping hand.

CARS

We are always on the look-out for volunteers but even more importantly we are needing more folks to donate their cars to us. With the shrinking economy our resources are diminishing which limits what we are able to do. Here are some asks to help us while you are talking to folks in the different communities.

We are able to pick up cars of any condition within 24 hours of their call. Cars, trucks, SUV's, trailers, snowmobiles, jet-ski's, wave runners, motor homes and motorcycles...even tractors have value for us.

Cars that are only good for scrap are worth between $350-$400 so they also have value.We help folks other than single Mom's. The Mom's may be our typical client but not the only ones.

If you come across someone needing either a car repair or the gift of a car they need to contact the Pastor On Call (they must be a WCCC attendee) We have teams of volunteers serving Monday through Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings. We also have opportunity for folks to serve during regular business hours.

Volunteers can either call the ministry directly or go to the cars website and sign up online, or email at cars@willowcreek.org