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DECEMBER 2021 |VOLUME 47| ISSUE NO.12
EVANGEL
OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF FIRST FREE CHURCH
Sharing the Hope of the Savior WRITTEN BY ALEX IELASE
The month of December is my favorite time to be in ministry. Our world gives us lots of reasons to be sad. The birth of Jesus gives us a reason to have true hope! "Long lay the world, in sin and error pining, till He appeared and the soul felt its worth." That lyric from "O Holy
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Night" reminds us of how desperate we are for the coming of our Savior. In December at Reach Student Ministries, we share the Hope of the Savior in a variety of ways. For the first week, students contribute their own money to buy gifts for community families. We break up into our growth groups and head out to area stores. Armed with gift tags that have an age/gender for a child, students pick out specific gifts that the child will enjoy. Once
During the second week, we partner with ladies from our Griefshare ministry. They prepare meals and cookies for about 20 folks. We then divide up and take the meals to their homes. These are people who may have lost a loved one during the previous year. We usually end up crowded into a living room, sharing a time of song, prayer and loving fellowship.
we all make a mad dash for the checkout lines, we head back to FEFC to wrap the presents together.
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