With Christmas just around the corner, it’s time to take a step back from our busy shopping sprees and Christmas lists and take a look around to see all the joys of the holiday season and all the ways we can reach out and help others that are less fortunate during this joyous time of the year. That is exactly what the youth group from St. Joe General Baptist Church in Bloomfield plans on doing by holding a lunch at their church and offering a warm place to talk, eat, and enjoy the company of others.
We hope you can clear your schedule for a helpful event and a bowl full of hot chili at St. Joe on Sunday, December 9th. The fundraiser will take place right after morning service and all proceeds will go to the Ben Kruse 18 Fore Life Foundation, to help the local families and individuals that are suffering from cancer and other fatal diseases.
The adult cost (for anyone thirteen and up) will be $5 and the children’s price (ages six to twelve) is $3 while any child five and under eats for free. A hot bowl of chili, freshly made peanut butter sandwiches, cold drinks, and a choice of many excellent desserts will be provided for each person who decides to attend. The lunch will last from noon to around two o’clock, which gives you plenty of time to enjoy your meal and the company of others.
The youth group is very involved in the church and has participated in many of their events but they thought it was time to step out and create their own all by themselves so that they too can experience the full meaning of offering a gift to charity. There are many helpful and meaningful fundraisers that benefit tons of people throughout our community and St. Joe has high hopes and great confidence that they can make this event successful so that they can offer a helping hand to this wonderful charity.
I’m sure that all of us can think about one person that we know or that we've heard of in our community that has an illness or a form of cancer and St. Joe’s youth group quickly recognized that traumatic things like cancer even exist in small towns like Bloomfield and Dexter. So, we hope that you can make it to this event and support both the Ben Kruse Foundation, the people that the charity will be helping, and St. Joe’s youth.
