Harvest Fest is a monthly newsletter sharing the needs and activities of your community center.
Our Community Center is a local mission of the Fredericksburg Seventh-day Adventist church seeking to
meet the needs of our community
.
Special Interest Notes:
The Community Center assists up to 120 families a month
We provide approximately 360 emergency meals a month! (3 meals per family)
Give lovingly, give the love of Christ! Monetary and food donations assist families in emergency situations…
GO GREEN! Think about using products from the community center in your next home improvement project. Donate gently used items for resale: REDUCE - REUSE RECYCLE
Time is as important as food and monetary donations. The Community Center needs volunteers to help sort, clean and create a warm and inviting store. Our sales help support our mission… increasing our sales means helping us reach more families with the love of Christ!
Individual Highlights:
BAG SALE!! All the clothes you can stuff in a bag or $5.00.
Vegetarian Food for sale! Help your community by EATING…Buy from the Community Center.
companies will be forced to offer products that are healthier for their consumers and for the environment. We can be good stewards of God’s gifts our bodies and our world, and make a world wide difference just by making small changes in our meals. See the link at the bottom of the page for some delicious vegetarian alternatives to typically meat dishes. For more information on eating “clean” food, the internet offers a bevy of information. Check out Wegmans’ site - they specialize in environmentally friendly food sources!
Dropping from 5 nights to 3 nights drastically reduces the demand for livestock. When buying fruits and vegetables, choose those that are grown without pesticides and are produced by farming co-ops or corporations that use responsible farming methods. If you eat seafood, purchase from seafood farms that are environmentally responsible. Some shrimp farms have incredible set-ups that reduce pollution, create a better tasting product and actually help their community! If each family practices smart buying choices, more
animals. Deforestation is devastating to animal species as well as the environment. These areas have problems with soil run-off – lakes and streams become overburdened with the excess dirt and minerals. The waste products from chicken mills is shipped to landfills or left to compost. The over abundance poisons the soil and is transported to our waterways via run-off. So what can each of us as individuals do to help counter balance these problems? The answer seems too simple – if you eat meat, choose to eat it less.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Eating green? What else do you do when you are a vegetarian … or trying to be? Eating GREEN goes beyond just eating your veggies. Eating green means choosing healthy, sustainable foods. Not all vegetables fall into this category – because of the way they are farmed. Food that is processed using chemicals lays waste to the soil it is growing in, causing sustainable farmland to shrink. Meat products can cause the same problems. Vast areas of wooded land are cleared to provide more and more grazing land for
Glory in the Lord’s Bounty!!
CONTEMPLATIVE THOUGHT:
SDA Community Center
1108 Caroline Street
Fredericksburg, VA 22405
Phone:
540.374.5794
Director:
MILDRED HARTNETT
to see page 2 of this newsletter for how to make an easy stitch sweater bear,
and some interesting recipes
HARVEST SABBATH IS THE 4TH SABBATH OF EACH MONTH
Please give to our LOCAL MISSION – we are in need non-perishable food items, monetary donations and of course donations of time.
Help your community – DONATE TODAY!
Matthew 25: 35-40
For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me:
I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an
hungered, and fed thee?
or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed
thee?
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the
least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me".
Help us to grow into an
unsurpassed community
resource.
Volunteers are cheerfully and
joyfully appreciated as well.
families/individuals in need.
You can help by donating
non-perishable food items,
items to be sold in our thrift
store and MONETARY
donations!
The Community Center is
completely staffed by
volunteers. We sell donated
items and the proceeds go
directly back to our community
through financial assistance to
