2012 Reach Haiti Mission Deposits Due Soon

Project Reach Spring/Summer short term missions are coming quick! Our first mission this year will be to the country of Haiti.  We will be staying just outside the capitol  (Port-Au-Prince.)

If you are planning on traveling with us on our next mission to Haiti leaving March 31st, please have your deposit into the FCC office on or before Sunday, February 12th. We need to book our tickets 6 weeks in advance!

Reach Team Re-cap - Golden Corner Food Pantry

  What a great time we had this past week! Our Project Reach team fired up again to serve for the first time in 2012 at the Golden Corner Food Pantry in Seneca.  Boy did they need it! According the the pantry director Richard Kulper, we arrived just in time, because the pantry was way behind on getting food prepared for the many families who get food monthly from GCFP. Last month, over 1300 families were provided for, which was a new record. Incredible isn't it?  God is using this ministry to care for so many families in need.

  I don't know how many boxes of food were prepared in the hours we were there, but it probably was at least a few hundred.  In addition, meat bags with several different types of frozen meat were also prepared for senior citizens. 

  As the team flew through the stock on the shelves and freezers while filling boxes and meat bags, we re-filled a lot of the rows, so that the next team would be ready to go. There are stacks and stacks of food and drink supplies neatly placed on pallets and in the freezer. Golden Corner Food Pantry is very organized and clean. 

   This facility is designed to crank out the food with rolling racks, large freezers, wheeled conveyor systems, and high shelves! I remember the previous building was nothing like this, and having all this sort of automation and space makes the ministry able to keep up with demand...as long as there are volunteers that is!


It is truly amazing how God provides so much food for the pantry to give to people; and it is a great blessing to partner with them in ministry! Our plans are to serve with them each month in 2012, generally on a Tuesday or a Thursday from 1-3pm and some special Saturday events. If you attend Foothills Community Church, and would like to serve on this Project Reach ministry team, please contact Pastor Bill at Foothills Community Church 864-888-8008, or by email at billswindle@foothills.cc.

FCC Haiti Reach Mission Trip over Spring Break!

Here's a Project Reach foreign missions head's up! Our next Reach mission trip to Haiti will be March 31st-April 7th. It's gonna be awesome! Is God calling you to go with us? There is still plenty of time to prepare. To sign up or get more info go to: http://www.foothillscc.org/projectreach/

Just click on the "Get involved/Find more info button at the bottom of the page to get connected.

Food/Diaper/Gift Card Drive

Project Reach Diaper/Food/Gift Card drive was wonderful! Thanks so much to all who contributed and served. We received over 550 items, and somewhere around 1400 diapers, plus hundreds of dollars in gift cards and cash donations. Way to go FCC! We have already been able to bless our Reach partners Golden Corner Food Pantry and Foothills Pregnancy Care Center :)

FCC Project Reach October Appalacia Mission Re-Cap

This was a trip filled with provision! During the weeks leading up to our departure, many people stepped up to deliver clothing. By the day we left, we had so many bags of clothing that we almost could not take them all. One of our church members donated probably around two thousand lbs. of construction supplies (such as ceiling fans, electrical items, plywood, tile, hardwood flooring, a shop vac, etc. And we received what had to be several thousand lbs. of food/diapers/etc. from one of our Project Reach partners (Golden Corner Food Pantry.) All in all, we probably had about 5000 lbs. of items to bring to donate to the ministries we work with in Kentucky, and even a few we don’t work directly with.  

As you can see in the pics, our trailers were LOADED down! Neither trailer could have handled much more; and my poor old GMC Jimmy had all it could handle before the suspension would squat so low that the trailer chains were dragging! What a blessing. Look at all that stuff! Thank God for Will Black and his big old F150 4x4 which pulled the FCC trailer no problem. 

After coming down Black Mountain,

Golden Corner Food Pantry Reach Day - October 8th Re-Cap

Our family Project Reach day at the pantry was a wonderful time! We had about 40 people on the team ranging from a few years old, on up through people in their 70’s.  For two hours we boxed hundreds of boxes of food and meats for the families in need that receive help from this ministry.  What an incredible time of fellowship and getting it done!

Some team members taught their children how to box food as they slid the boxes
down the rolling shelf system. It was so cute to see the parents sliding their children along sitting on the rolling shelf, with the young ones grabbing a can of vegetables or fruit and dropping them in the box.

We re-organized the large walk-in freezer, so that it could accommodate all of the boxes of meat that we had prepared. Golden Corner is blessed in the fact that they do have access to some great cuts of meat. Ya never know what is available, but I have seen steaks and chicken that made my mouth water!  I always joke that we need to put a gas grill outside the door for those cuts of meat that might just "happen" to fall out of the package.

The pantry director Richard Kulper was a bit surprised by our large turnout, and the fact that we not only accomplished everything needed, but also re-stocked the pantry shelves for the next workers to come during the week and cleaned up our mess when we were done! Our team came in like a whirlwind J

Thank God for the work that Golden Corner Food Pantry is doing in Oconee County. As we began to wrap up the day by cleaning up, we gathered in the parking lot in a big circle to pray, and ask God to bless this ministry as they now serve over 1200 qualified families in our area.

Our next serve day will be on Tuesday, November 15^thfrom 1-3pm. We need 6-8 people for this one. If you would like to Reach with us, please call the church office at 864-888-8008, or go to our website and click on the "get involved/find mor info" button at the bottom of the page here:
http://www.foothillscc.org/projectreach/

Reach Night at Home with a Heart Re-Cap

A Reach Team of 9-10 people headed out to spend some time with the men at the Home with a Heart Addiction Rehabilitation ministry last Tuesday. It was a great time of fellowship as we grilled up some tasty hot dogs, hamburgers, and chili on the outdoor brick grill. The grill hadn't been used in quite a while, and many of the men said they were so blessed to have a meal off that grill. They said it just tasted better!

Each of our team members had some good conversation with men in the program. After grilling out, we hung out in the cafeteria and ate with them, and just got to know some of them and their stories a little. Several of the men shared with me that they had come to faith in Christ within the last few weeks in meetings at Home with a Heart! Praise God! The Lord is truly using this ministry in a big way. As we finished eating, the men were preparing to head to their evening NA meeting. Each one I talked to had hope of freedom from addiction, and had clearly been influenced for Christ by the Director Alex Richey, staff, and volunteers of HWAH. This was the first of many Reach Teams we will be sending out. If you or your family has experience in addiction in any way, this is a great place to allow God to use you to share your experience, and love on others struggling with addiction in the name of Jesus.

You can sign up by going to http://www.foothillscc.org/projectreach/ and clicking on the "Get Involved, Tell Me More" button at the bottom of the page with the big ? on it.