****************FAITH IN ACTION 2012 MAY 20TH***************

What is Faith in Action?

We replace our sermon, and worship music with mission projects in our community.  We find the needs and do what we can to fill it.  Usually it is just on a sunday, but this spring we decided we would do an entire weekend. 

This year our faith in action weekend was May the 21st and 22nd.  We had several projects going on and every one could choose where they wanted to work. 

What a great weekend it was showing the love of Christ thru our community.

 

 

 

    Faith in Action

    The Projects:

    Community Garden: Cortland UMC has expanded their garden space so that they can plat more and provide people in our community with even more fresh veggies.  So the goal was to get the fence up around the 110x55 ft plot, and get rocks picked up and stacked around the base of the fence to keep critters out.

    Garfield St. house project: There is a family in our faith community that is renevating a house for a family to move into.  There was flooring and painting to be done. Now that family is one step closer to having a home.

    Chestnut St. garage project: A member of our faith community had a elderly neighbor that had been trying for several years to get someone to paint her very much in need garage.  It was a very large garage and much more work than one person could do in a weekend.  It needed to be scraped, primed, and painted. There was a crew of about 8-12 people there thru the weekend, it was completed and they even painted her porch with the left over paint!

    Beaudry Park: How sad it is to take your young child to a park where there is graffiti all around.  We had a crew of people go out to the park and spend a great deal of time scrubbing off the graffiti from the play ground equiptment.

    Brewster House:  On sunday a group went to the Elizabeth Brewster house to visit with elderly people and make them feel special.

    Fabius Project:  Cortland UMC aquired the Fabius UMC and is in the process of turning it into a mission site.  With several projects in the work there was no shortage of things for people to do.