Mission committee December updates:

Happy holidays everyone! Your Mission Committee and church volunteers have had a busy month so far, and we are grateful and filled with love to serve God through serving others.

On December 3rd, we filled 52 gift bags for the Northampton Food Bank. Generous givers donated small and useful gifts to brighten the holidays for Food Bank patrons in Northampton. Don and I delivered these beautiful bags on a snowy, December 6 morning. Thank you to all who helped us share God’s love with our expanded community.

On Friday, December 8, we held our monthly Food Drive for the Catasauqua Food Bank and collected a truck full of donations and $60 in cash donations. Overall, 12 donors contributed to our monthly haul. We were pleased to welcome new and old friends at this drive-through event.

On Monday, December 18, our Free Community Lunch volunteers prepared and distributed 225 lunches to individuals and families in our local area. We experienced our first rainy opening of lunch distribution, though the skies cleared shortly after - way ahead of when the forecasters predicted..hmmmmm. We shared food, warm scarves, smiles, encouragement and God’s love - a beautiful day indeed. Food insecurity is real across the country, as well as here in our Lehigh Valley, and we are incredibly grateful to all who help sustain this mission. When we resurrected our monthly Free Lunch project in May of 2021, we had no idea how this mission would grow. Every month after the lunch, we share a sense of awe and gratitude to our Lord for enabling us to keep moving forward with our service to others. Thank you God.

If you have an opportunity, check out the accompanying pics of all three December Missions on our church Facebook page, and always remember, God loves you, and so do we, here at the little Presbyterian Church of Catasauqua.