(This Week at The
Gathering - June 2013)
HOLY FAMILY PARISH
PARTNERS WITH THE GATHERING TO HELP LOW INCOME FAMILIES
Father Seville of Holy Family Parish presented a check for
$5,000 from his church to Mae Buchanan of The Gathering this past Sunday. Mae is a single mother with two children, one
who is a three-year-old battling brain cancer. Mae has overcome homelessness, poverty, and unemployment to raise her
two girls and is one semester away from obtaining a degree in criminal justice
from Miami University. Mae is a
children’s leader in The Gathering Seedlings program.
GATHERING TEEN BIBLE
STUDY IN FULL SWING
Miles Jena, son of Pastor Carrie Jena opened his home to 12
teenagers from various churches last Thursday for a teen Bible study. Following
a cook-out, the teens got to know each other and shared a covenant agreement to
participate in the study. The video
based curriculum will last for 8 weeks and teaches teens how to confidently
share their faith with others and how to stay faithful to their relationship
with Christ in the midst of peer pressure.
GATHERING COMMUNITY
GARDEN YIELDS ITS FIRST HARVEST
Jim Edwards of the Madison Lion’s club delivered 8 pounds of
fresh vegetables to the Middletown Salvation Army food pantry this week from
his raised bed at the Gathering Community Garden. The Lion’s Club of Madison and the Kiwanis
club of Middletown are using the Gathering Community garden for a competition
to see which group can donate the most pounds of vegetables to pantries in the
community. So far, the Lion’s club is
off to a great start!
THE GATHERING
PARTNERS WITH GRACE POINT NAZARENECHURCH OF TRENTON FOR LEADERSHIP TRAINING AND
LAUNCH OF CELEBRATE RECOVERY
17 Leaders from The Gathering, Grace Point Nazarene, and
Faith Church of Middletown have almost completed their six-week training
program to prepare for the launch of Celebrate Recovery at The Gathering on
July 8th. The Gathering and Grace Point
will join together in worship on Sunday, July 7th to kick off the
program that will be held on Monday nights at 6:30. Celebrate Recovery deals with all hurts,
habits and hang-ups including drug and alcohol addiction, gambling,
pornography, anger, depression, anxiety, and many more issues.
THE GATHERING TO
PARTNER WITH MIDDLETOWN ART FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN’S “HEALING THROUGH ART”
PROJECT.
Beginning in July, The children The Gathering and of the
Middletown Art Foundation will work together to paint a mural on the front of
the Gathering building. The mural is
designed by artist Brandon Johnston, a local artist in Madison who has studied
art at the Savannah College of Art. Brandon has completed three other murals in
the downtown area. This mural will represent the diversity of the people of The
Gathering and celebrate God’s abundance through the vegetables and flowers of
the community garden.
No comments:
Post a Comment