BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT

We open our facility to one of Heartland Hospice’s weekly bereavement support groups. For information, please contact Tom Newboult 238-5279 (cell)     We open our facility to a monthly support group offered by “Joy in the Mourning Center for Life Losses.”  From Grief to Joy meets at 7:00 PM on the third Tuesday of each month.  For information, please contact:  Linda Gill (RN, MSN, MA, LPC), Leader “Joy in the Mourning Center for Life Losses” (803) 407-3185 joyinthemourningcenter@yahoo.com.

Partner: Operation Inasmuch Inc., Knoxville, TN

Missions Chairperson, EBF Contact Person

2006 Projects:

• Bag lunches for the homeless
• Car seat check/give-away at Walter Rawl Farm (Target group: Hispanic workers)
• No-sew blankets for:
  • The Children’s Garden, Columbia, SC
  • Hannah House, Columbia, SC
  • Nancy K. Perry Children’s Shelter, Lexington, SC
  • Sister Care, Columbia, SC
• Painting, construction, and yard work, Lexington Interfaith Community Services

2005 Projects:

• Bag lunches for the homeless
• Car seat check/give-away (Target group: Hispanics)
• Cookies for shut-in church members and for personnel at a local nursing center
• Distribution of quarters/laundry powder at local laundromats
• Home maintenance, construction, and yard work for a disabled woman
• Installation of screen door and gutters for an elderly woman

CHRISTMAS IN LEXINGTON COUNTY

Partner:  Lexington Council on Recreation and Aging, Lexington, SC

Dale Baer and John Hardee , EBF Contact Persons

Projects:

• 2008 Trimmed bushes, cleared ivy, removed dead/dying trees, power-washed dwelling for elderly woman (Batesburg-Leesville, SC)
• 2007 Structural repair of porch, new hand rails (Gilbert, SC)
• 2006 Painting (Leesville, SC)
• 2005 Bathroom repairs, painting, and yard work (West Columbia, SC)

FOOD DRIVE - "SHARING GOD’S LOVE"

Partner:  "Sharing God’s Love," Irmo, SC

Gail Brooks and Billie Lindsey, EBF Contact Persons

“THE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING”

Partner:  The Souper Bowl of Caring, Columbia, SC
(www.souperbowl.org)

Jim Holland, EBF Contact Person

We accept monetary offerings and gifts of non-perishable food stuffs on Super Bowl Sunday.  Monies and foods benefit Lexington Interfaith Community Services, Lexington, SC, and “Sharing God’s Love,” Irmo, SC

College Ministry

Columbia College, Columbia, SC
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, SC
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Partner:  Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of South Carolina

Chaplain Chris Cottingham, EBF Contact Person
chaplainchris@gmail.com

’06-’07 School year:

• "Eat Out on Us" (Mellow Mushroom, etc.)
• Goody bags
• Home-cooked meals
• Host families (international students)
• Opportunities for:
  • Bible study
  • Discussion
  • Fellowship
  • Ministry/Missions
  • Prayer
  • Worship and worship leader responsibilities

Other Projects

• Mowed yard/blew driveway, cleared wisteria/removed downed trees, power-washed house, installed screen door for disabled woman (Columbia, SC)