Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Thanks! Your Loose Change is Changing Lives

12/27/2004
By: Holy Trinity Lutheran

Will we make the goal of sending $1,500 to the ELCA for an extra dose of love and ministry through our Stand with Africa: Helping Through Loose Change jar? We hope so; we are very close. As of this writing, on December 8th, we have $1,458.50 counted, rolled, and turned in, and loose coins amounting to $10.46 still in the jar. This means, in the next three weeks, we will need $30.04. You won’t be reading this until the very end of December, or the first part of January if you leave town for the holidays. Even so, we hope you will drop some of your loose change into the big jar in the Narthex to help us make our goal. We’ll let you know early in January how we did.

This has been an exciting vehicle to serve in extra ways, gifting chickens, trees, seeds, lambs, goats, even fish and farming tools! In a way, we have been giving ourselves the presents of these gifts all year, in honor of the Christchild we welcome during our Christmas and Epiphany seasons. Thanks be to God that we can become modern day Wisemen/women/youth/children, presenting our gifts in the name of our loving Savior.

Don’t forget, if you have a special ELCA goal for passionate giving, write it down on a slip of paper and drop it in the jar along with that loose change. We can choose one of them for our next year’s project. God bless each of you who have participated in this special offering venture. Many have been blessed by it, and surely, this includes ourselves! Stewardship Ministries — IlaJean Kragthorpe