many hands news july 19, 2011

I hope the summer is bringing you many blessings!

There is a lot happening at Community Missions. There are always opportunities for you to be part of the work we do each day to help our neighbors in need. The only way we can continue this work is through our partnerships with you. If you have questions about what's happening at the Mission, or would like to know how you can get involved, please feel free to contact me at any time.

Yours in Christ,
Pastor Mark
Agency Minister &
Director of Ministry and Community Partnerships
mbreese@communitymissions.org
716-285-3403 ext. 2259

Help Make Our Soup Kitchen Accessable!
We trying to earn $50,000 grant through the Pepsi Refresh Project to help us add an elevator lift to our Soup Kitchen. Currently, individuals who can't get up and down the stairs to the Kitchen eat in a separate area. You can help us better serve these folks by voting for our Pepsi Refreash project. There are several ways to vote listed below.

There are Four Ways to Vote: (each person can vote once per day, plus enter up to 10 PowerVotes... more on that below)
To begin, go to www.refresheverything.com/feeding-niagara And click on the "Vote For This Idea" Button. An option will pop up that gives you two ways to vote:

1. Vote through FaceBook.
2. Vote through the Pepsi Site. If you choose this option, and have not signed up in the past, just sign up, wait a bit for an email to come to your email address confirming your account and password information. Then you can vote!

3. You can also vote through TEXT:

a. Send a text with the message 107701 to the number 73774 (you can send 1 vote per day)

4. PowerVote by collecting Yellow Caps from Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max

a. You can enter them when signed into the Pepsi Refresh Site and click the yellow link at the top of the page that says "PowerVote."
b. OR you can bring the PowerVote caps to Community Missions and we will enter them.

Be Part of Many Hands Fellowship

Each Thursday evening at Community Missions we offer a worship and fellowship program from 6:30- 8:30PM. Its purpose is to help meet the spiritual needs of:

Individuals residing in our Crisis Housing Shelter;
Individuals in our residential and community based mental health programs;
And anyone from the general public that may wish to participate.

During the summer we are including special Coffee House nights with music provided by various musicians and bands from local churches. The musicians for the next two coffee houses are:

July 21st - Revelation - St. Paul's Lutheran Church, North Tonawanda.
August 4th - Peter Green of Eagle Psalms Music Ministry

We will keep you posted as more performers are added to the summer lineup.

Many Hands Fellowship is a free event and everyone is welcome. It is held in our Chapel and Community Room located at 1570 Buffalo Ave. Niagara Falls, NY. For more information or to get involved in presenting this program, please contact Rev. Mark Breese 716-285-3403 ext 2259.