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Our Christmas Store Opens on December 2
Sardis has a place to shop for Christmas gifts and it will be open for business on December 2. Itʹs our Alternative Gift Market, set up in The Gathering Place every Sunday from December 2‐23. Cash, check or credit card gifts will be accepted as donations to six ministries: Bayonnias, Haiti; Marion Medical Missions; Habitat For Humanity; Loaves and Fishes; Rama Road Backpack Program; and The Childrenʹs Hope Alliance. Get those shopping lists ready and plan to give gifts this year that truly make a difference. These are the gifts that keep on giving way after all the wrapping paper and lights have been put away.
Bayonnais College Scholarship Fund Update
Wow! Thank you
In 2017, $22,000 was collected to celebrate Jane Fobel’s 20th
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Anniversary at Sardis. Those funds were transferred to Friends of
We delivered 76 bags of clothing to Crisis Assistance Ministry after our fall collection drive! Thank you for your generosity.
OFCB and have become the Bayonnais Education Foundation Fund. The Education Foundation Fund is the basis for a student loan program that enables students in Bayonnais to enroll in college. Students, selected by the OFCB School, are eligible to apply for a loan that will be repaid when the student graduates and is employed. In 2017, four students received funding to attend college in Port Au Prince and in Gonaives.
This fall 2018, five students have received funding:
Feniel Charles, studying Civil Engineering in Gonaives
Eligens Chancy, studying Civil Engineering in Gonaives
Amicasler Jaccean, studying Agronomy in Port Au Prince
Norguens Noudy Sagis, studying Business Administration in Port Au Prince
Julson Ilmeus‐Fils, studying Agronomy in Limbe
Joe L. Muse, treasurer of Friends of OFCB provided this update and writes, ”The Board of Directors of Friends of OFCB wants to again express its sincere, heartfelt appreciation for your generous and compassionate support of our efforts to do God’s work in support of the people in Bayonnais, Haiti.”
We will hold these students in prayer as they work to develop skills and expertise that will benefit their community of Bayonnais and benefit Haiti as well.
Thank you Sardis for your generosity and for the ways you are making real the love of Christ.
The Communicator ~ November 2018 5