OFFERING SCHEDULE FOR OCTOBER 2020
October 4th – Smithville Christian High is providing an authentically Christian education to teens from all over central Niagara. Smithville Christian High graduates are serving God and bringing shalom all over the world. Your gift will be used to keep tuition in check so that many families can have access to the exciting programs that enable our students to thrive. Thank-you for your part in keeping Christian education affordable at all levels.
October 11th – Thanksgiving Sunday - Benevolence: Your contribution to Benevolence provides assistance for the needs of our church family and the local community. These include basic needs such as food, clothing, housing and schooling. A church and community of our size has many varied needs within it. Please continue to support our ministry of benevolence.
October 12th – Thanksgiving Monday – World Renew envisions a world where people experience and extend Christ's compassion and live together in hope as God's community. Compelled by God’s deep passion for justice & mercy, we join communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation. World Renew's worldwide ministry is three-fold: Community Development, Disaster Response & Rehabilitation, and Peace & Justice.
October 18th – Church Support Ministries (CSM) combines the ministries that were previously separate agencies of the CRC: Aboriginal Ministry, Centre for Public Dialogue, Chaplaincy and Care Ministry, Disability Concerns, Faith Formation, Office of Social Justice, Pastor-Church Relations, Race Relations, Safe Church, ServiceLink, Sustaining Congregational Excellence, and Worship Ministries. Your gifts will help support many programs of the CRC.
Disability Concerns: Everybody Belongs. Everybody Serves. Disability Concerns helps churches become healthier communities that intentionally seek: • To end the isolation and disconnectedness of persons with disabilities and their families • To nurture the spiritual lives of people with disabilities so that they become professing and active members of their churches • To encourage the gifts of people with disabilities so that they can serve God fully in their churches.
October 25th – Calvin Theological Seminary provides theological training for ordained and un-ordained ministry positions for Christian Reformed Churches in North America as well as leaders for Christ’s church around the world. They also evaluate candidates for ministry, offer continuing education for pastors, and seminars for office bearers. Calvin Theological Seminary advises synod and is a theological resource for all denominational agencies and churches.
