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Convoy of Hope

We need your help!!
We are partnering with other churches in our community and with Convoy of Hope to reach out to the less fortunate in East St. Louis on July 22, 2017. We know will be working in the Kids Zone. Here are the details about how you can sign up to volunteer with us.
We will need 1,500 volunteers to serve at this community outreach event!  Please have each individual volunteer from your church register online through our website.  Click on the orange box at the top of the page, fill out the info, then an email will be generated for them…finish the registration and then they will have the confirmation email sent to them.  This is needed to receive the FREE event t-shirt that will be given out at the Volunteer Rally on Friday, July 21st @ JJK @ 7 pm.
Event Website:  www.convoy.org/eaststlouis

Super Summer Sundays


We are excited that it’s time for Super Summer Sundays! Here is the schedule!
July 9th-Pie and Ice cream social
July 16th- Game night!
July 23rd- Christmas in July with a white elephant gift exchange!!
July 30th-Paddlers Pool Party!
Please join us each Sunday night to get together and spend time in fellowship with each other!

Our Schools Matter


We are collecting the following supplies to help the teacher’s at Prather out with supplies they need that are usually purchased out of their own pockets. We would love to collect enough items for the next school year to ease the burden on their personal bank accounts.  We will be collecting through June.

  • Brown lunch bags
  • White lunch bags
  • Paper towels
  • Highlighters
  • Cotton balls
  • Glue sticks
  • Craft sticks
  • Sidewalk chalk
  • Q-tips
  • Paper plates – large and small
  • Ziplock bags – gallon/quart/sandwich

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