Update on "Care to Share" and December Luncheon

This past weekend BPC hosted its 3rd annual “Care to Share” FREE Christmas Flea Market. What’s this all about you ask? BPCers invited their families & friends to donate gently used items so that we can offer them FREE to anyone in our community who may be in need this holiday season & I gotta tell ya, everything donated was current, up to date & “over the top” good this year! THANK YOU to everyone who gave!

Clothes & Shoes for the whole family, Housewares, THE Best Toys we’ve ever offered, Books, Paintings & Pictures as well as Electronics plus a whole lot more! Everyone participating received a FREE Luncheon while also having an opportunity to talk with and be prayed for by one of our volunteers.
Many felt “Soo Blessed” this Christmas as they told us their real stories of how their needs for clothes, toys for the kids & the other FREE items offered were met as they expressed their “Thanks” to BPC; “The church that’s always doing something for this community.” I’m told that some even came from the local bus stop missing their bus to get to our event, WOW!

Here’s just some of the scoop;
Over 20 BPCers on Friday evening screening, sorting, tagging & setting up the donations
Over 30 BPCers during the event on Saturday servings as greeters, shopping assistants, providing help with loading cars & serving lunch
Close to 300 people blessed
About 70 boxes of food given to families of 4 for an entire Holiday Meal

Thank you to all you BPCers who volunteered; as your Pastors Francie & I are soo proud of you! You stepped up & did an AMAZING job “Connecting Real People to the Real God” this Christmas! May God richly bless you & your families as you have served Him showing the Love of Christ to others! And…a very BIG “THANK YOU” to BPC’s Awesome Staff; Outreach Pastor, Maribeth for coordinating the entire event, Pastor Steve & our Intern Shelby for assisting. This was THE BEST Christmas Outreach we've ever hosted!

Because you all gave of yourselves this past weekend & as we enter into the busiest week of the year we want you BPCers to spend extended time on Sunday afternoon with your families & friends; especially since the Steelers won’t be playing until Monday night. So… this Sunday we WILL NOT have a Luncheon following the service.

If “Care to Share” is an indicator of what’s God’s up to then I can’t wait to see all He’s gonna do in & through BPC as we launch into 2012!