socks across the room to whom-ever could catch them.

As special thanks goes out to all those who donated items to give away—especially to Josh of Atchley Hauling. He also manages the Arby’s out on Highway 2, which had spent weeks collecting items from their employees and customers to give to us. Josh brought so many clothes, blan-kets and boots that we simply set up a table and let people take what they wanted. At first I doubted the wisdom of piling up these clothes to give out, but Jesus proved faithful and well timed – once again. By the end of day it was almost completely gone. There were a lot of new faces in the crowd that Sunday!

One man pulled me aside during the event with misty, tear-filled

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On Super Bowl Sunday the church opened its doors to host a spec-tacular BBQ event for the poor and homeless in our neighbor-hood. Over 130 people were served a great meal of hotdogs, hamburgers, nachos, macaroni salad, and more.

During commercial breaks we gave away many blankets, jackets, hats, gloves, and backpacks. In-stead of using a trivia pursuit game like we usually do, we simply drew people’s names out of a hat to win the prizes. Since the com-mercials during the Super Bowl are often just as entertaining and important as the game, we could-n’t take as much time interrupting them. My favorite give away mo-ment was when I stood on stage with my son throwing pairs of

Spectacular Super Sunday

Special points of interest:

> Super Bowl

Sunday Event

> We still need

volunteers

> Struggling

with a failing

Kidney —

Kadee Scott

> Annual Meet-

ing Highlights

212 South Division St..

Spokane, WA, 99202

Phone 509-747-2818

www.fccspokane.org

Inside this issue:

Super Sunday continued

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More pictures of our out-reach event

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Life Change Journey

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Join a Minis-try Team!

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Annual Meet-

ing Updates 4

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February 2010 YEAR 121 - Issue 3

212 South Division, Spokane, WA. Zip: 99202 Phone: 509 -747-2818 E-mail: Office@fccspokane.org / Rob@fccspokane.org

People Accepted! Lives Changed! Year #121

Issue #2

Annual Meeting Update! Treasury report. Most of our projections were accurate with the exception that the outreach ministry produced more income than we antici-pated. The first quarter budget results of 2010 will be presented at the next meet-ing March 21. A second quar-ter 2010 budget will be pre-sented then as well.

The facility report indicated that the boiler has a leak in the system and is on its last legs. It will be impossible to find and repair the leak. A new system will be needed soon. The prayer loft ap-proved a few months ago will begin construction in March.

Francis Pierce reported that the Women’s Auxiliary is looking at creating a visita-tion team for shut-ins. They are also planning on sending our unused choir robes to a Covenant Church in Uganda.

Because of the construction on 2nd Ave this year, the Farmer’s Market will move to a grassy area between 4th and 5th avenue for the year. There is a huge need for help

The Annual Meeting was called to order by Chair-person Margot Cioccio on Sunday, Feb. 21. Twenty nine of our sixty two mem-bers were present.

The Chairperson’s report stressed the difficult jour-ney we had all of last year, dealing with one crisis after another. As we learn from our work we con-tinue to find that God is faithful. This year we are finding new joy and hope brought to our hearts with new ministry energy.

One surprise was Treas-urer Robin Havercroft’s letter of resignation. She indicated that the work of Treasurer in cleaning up past records, dealing with back debt to the IRS, and catching up on other bills, had produced a stress and strain on her and her family that made it hard to continue. The records are mostly up to date now and ready to hand off to a new person to further this work. Financial Secretary, Kadee Scott gave the

in the kitchen on Tuesdays and Thursdays and in the Market booth on Wednes-days and Saturdays.

Pastor Rob indicated that our work with poor is cre-ating opportunities that may lead to help from sev-eral outside sources, in-cluding denominational aide. Over $4,000 has come in since Sept from outside our church to sup-port and encourage this ministry.

As a result of Robin’s resig-nation, The Management Team is seeking two new people to be added to the Team to fill the roles of Treasurer and Secretary, Please send nominees to Margot Cioccio or contact the church office with po-tential nominees.

Written reports and other handouts from this meeting can be obtained by contact-ing the church office by phone or email.

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relationships and build greater favor with those in the community. The kitchen crew was a bit nervous as we began because only six people had signed up to help and one of them called and bailed out the day of the event. In spite of that stressful begin-ning, fifteen people ended up coming in to help in the kitchen. There was a lot of laughter and joy in the process.

In early February the Spokane Homeless Coalition met and decided to donate their charitable collection for the month to First Covenant Church as a token of thanks and appreciation for our work with the home-less of Spokane.

One of the problems we currently face has to do with the lack of workers doing church ministry. If

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Pray The Lord Send Workers

Life Change Journey

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kidney when the time is right, but I believe that sometimes we must be proactive.

I would be very grateful if you would consider thinking about making a donation. Please prayerfully consider making the decision to do-nate. The lives of many hang on the generosity of a stranger. You may be the one! Thank you for your consideration and prayers.

"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.,

John 4:34-35

“Life from a Stranger”

If you would like information on kidney donation please contact www.kidney.org,; www.donatelife.net or call Sacred Heart Kidney Trans-plant office 509-474-4500

My name is Kathleen (Kadee) Scott and I am a member of First Covenant Church in Spokane. I lost my kidney function due to a disease called Lupus and had one kidney removed due to a tumor in 2006. I have been on the waiting list for a kidney for 3-1/2 years. I am on kidney dialy-sis and I am fortunate to be able to do my dialysis at home at night so that I can have a fairly normal life and work part time. My family and friends have been very supportive and have been praying for me. One relative offered, but turned out not to be able to donate. I trust that God will send me a

Did you know that more than 75,000 people in the United States are waiting for kidney transplants! The wait for a kidney can take 3-5 years, unless a living donor is available.

A living donor kidney comes from a person who voluntarily offers to do-nate one of their kid-neys. This can be a blood relative or a person not related. Testing is done to determine if the potential donor is compatible with the patient. Since people have two kidneys and only one is needed for normal function, donating is possi-ble for most people.

Fun and Fellowship, cleaning, maintenance, repair, busi-ness leadership, counseling, Bible study, check writing, and bill paying. All of these actions and a few more, are done by 17 people in our church. That’s it —17! Ten of those are Management Team members and their spouses. We still need more members to rise up and take part in ministry. Why don’t you chose a ministry to join?!

you were to list all the minis-tries done in the course of a month, you would notice things like designing ser-vices, running sound, lights, and PowerPoint, preaching, singing, bulletin, poster, and flyer production, mailing letters, answering phones, creating The Grapevine, pur-chasing supplies, meal plan-ning and preparation, Farm-ers Market work, Jr High boys class, STUCK preschool, warming center operation,

eyes. He told me how he and his twenty something son had lost their jobs and were passing through town staying at a local shelter while they tried to make it back to family in another state. About all they had were the clothes on their backs and a cou-ple of sleeping bags. Before they left, each were able to get numerous changes of clothes, and the son won a backpack to carry it all in. He almost burst into tears with thanks and gratitude to us. I told him how Jesus knew he was coming that day and planned on having all that stuff here just for him and his son to take. “Use this moment to realize that Jesus knows what’s going on with you, he loves you, and he plans on taking care of you” I told him.

We had many guests with us that day who haven’t been a part of our ministry to date. It gave us a chance to make some new

Comments overheard

“I’ve been to a lot of these kinds of events for guys like us; but nobody anywhere has anything as good as

this!

“The food was good, the fun was great but the fellowship was the

best part of the day!”