Rochester Christian Church Thanksgiving Outreach Serves Local Families
Rochester Christian Church in Illinois marked Thanksgiving with a hands-on outreach effort instead of its annual dinner. Families, small groups, and friends assembled shoeboxes, foster-care duffel bags, and meal baskets for local families.
- The church collected items for 200 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.
- Volunteers filled 82 duffel bags with toiletries and gifts for foster kids.
- The outreach also provided 42 Thanksgiving meal baskets for local families.
Rochester Christian Church’s Thanksgiving Outreach
On Sunday, Rochester (IL) Christian Church celebrated “THANKSgiving, living, loving.”
“Instead of our annual Thanksgiving dinner (which none of us needed!), we collected items to fill 200 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes, 82 duffel bags filled with toiletries and gifts for foster kids, and 42 Thanksgiving meal baskets for local families,” says Matt Bortmess, senior associate minister. On Sunday families, small groups, and friends worked together to assemble the gifts.
The special outreach is part of RCC’s “DO Something” series; throughout the series the church also shared other local and global ways individuals could “do something” to make a difference.
Author: Christian Standard
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