Mission

" Public Garden Project"
Bell Memorial joins the Pilot program for this effort to provide fresh produce to the many families struggling to keep food on their tables. The concept is in the form of "raised bed" vegetable gardening. Each garden is 4'x4'x6-10" in depth and is constructed, planted and maintained by volunteer gardeners, individual and/or organizations. All of the plants in Bell's garden were donated by our friends at D'Addio's Nursery. Currently there are 5 gardens with the hope of more participants. All of the crops harvested will be given to the local Food Bank for distribution.
The start of this initial effort is pretty late in the season but there are great expectations that the program will grow with each succeeding year.
Those of you that have your own family gardens ,hopefully , would consider sharing a portion of your harvest for the Food Bank, to provide some fresh produce in this first year. An information and guide sheet is available in the church office. There is also a pictorial display, outside of the office, where you can view the gardens, their contents and Doug (design&construction) along with Mio (production&maintenance) for the Bell Garden.
Blessings; The Mission Team




 

Pastor Derek and a group from the Shenango Presbytery traveled to the Sudan at the end of January 2010.  These pictures are from that trip.  In the one picture Derek is presenting a banner that hung in our sanctuary to the church that we helped to build (financially and by the late Elder Dave Lower who went himself and helped to build).  The other picture is Derek sharing photos of his children with the children of the Sudan.