Call 342.8452 for Baptist Community Center and 343.5437 for Baptist Friendship House to arrange a delivery time.

Baptist Community Center

- glue Sticks (please no glue bottles)
- #2 pencils
- index cards
- regular wide rule notebook paper
- markers (8 pack with standard colors)
- color pencils
- regular rule composition books
- 3 ring binders
- tissues
- erasers
- pencil bags (please no boxes)
- pocket folders (with and w/out brads)
- highlighters
- scissors

We do NOT need:
college rule paper or notebooks, crayons, rulers or glue bottles.

Baptist Friendship House

• Back packs (no wheels)
• tissues
• erasers
• 12 inch rulers
• colored pencils
• markers
• gallon sized ziploc bags
• lunch boxes
• glue sticks
• copy paper
• zipper pencil bags
• 3×5 index cards
• blunt tip scissors
• 3 ring binders (2 inches are larger)

We have plenty of notebooks, notebook paper, and pencils. Thank you!

BAPTIST COMMUNITY CENTER
* Prayer
* Volunteers
* Umbrella for a round outdoor patio table
* Swim Lesson Sponsors ($20 per child…Our hope is to have 10 to 20 children sponsored). We need all sponsors/money by May 21, 2010.
* Lunch Sponsors for our Thursday Ladies Bible Study (please call me for details)
* Fabric for quilting, needles, pins, crochet string for tacking
* Blankets for quilts (to be put inside the quilts)
* Non-Perishable food for our food closet (we are distributing food bags monthly for the children and ladies)
* Beach Towels for children to use at pool
* Coffee
* Construction Paper (note:  Learning Resources has packs of solid colors for $2.50 a pack)
* Churches to do a week of camp (please call me for details)
* Grill brush set to clean grill
* Swimsuits for boy and girls (preferably one piece for girls)
* Sandwich/quart size baggies (needed for summer use providing snacks/cereal)
* Cereal:  Cheerios, fruit loops, any cereal that kids would like to eat dry)
* Bags of microwave popcorn
* Replacement Window Sponsorships ($150 each) in memory of Judy Hetherington

BAPTIST FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
* Volunteers willing to help with small jobs at the homes of our ladies.
* Sponsorships for Angel Food Boxes (we give 1 out monthly to our Ladies program participants, $30 each)
* Non-Perishable Food. We use these for bingo prizes as well as to give out to families in need.
* Coupons for our ladies so that they may save at the grocery store.
* Coffee, stirrers, cups, plates, napkins, plastic silverware for our Ladies Bible Study
* Paper towels and bathroom tissue
* Household necessities such as laundry detergent, dish soap, hand soap, cleaning supplies, etc.
* Personal toiletries such as shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste, etc.
* Volunteers to lead a one 2-hour workshop for our ladies this summer such as quilting, cooking, scrapbooking, crafts, or any other hobbies that are fun to teach others.
* Sports Equipment for children and youth.
* Wal-Mart gift cards of $25 each to help make ends meet for our program participants.

Thank you all for your support and prayers!

Baptist Community Center

We need the following items ASAP:

• Big Art Tablets
• White paper for kids to draw on and use for art projects (maybe someone has access to a copy place that would donate scrap paper?)
• Hot glue sticks (big and little)
• Paper towels
• Paper products (8 oz. Styrofoam cups & plates, bowls, dessert plates)
• Plastic forks & spoons
• Pearl glitter glue
• Paint by number sets
• Electric knife
• Volunteers
• Prayer
• Bibles for Children
• Box of Copy Paper
• White Construction Paper
• Fabric (at least 36 x36) to make quilts with during the Ladies Program
• Blankets (new or used) all sizes
• # 3 crochet string
• Quilting thread
• White sewing thread
• Curved needles for tacking
• Bible Study Teacher for Ladies Bible Study on Thursdays from 10:30-11:15 a.m.
• Storage tubs (all sizes)
• Large paper grocery bags (always needed)
• 4 White 6 ft fold up tables
• Non perishable food to restock food closet
• Lincoln Logs and Leggos
• Model cars/planes, etc for all ages

Baptist Friendship House

The combination of very cold weather along with a power increase by the electric company has squeezed a lot of our families. Many in our Ladies Bible Study are having to make tough decisions about how to stretch their money to make ends meet. They are not able to obtain essential items as utility bills rise. To help out, we are currently collecting:

• Non-perishable food
• Gently-used and new clothes (all sizes and all ages)
• Jackets
• Shoes (all sizes and all ages)
• Household items (such as laundry detergent, paper towels, dish soap, etc)
• Hygiene and Health products (shampoo, body wash, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, deodorant, etc)
• Baby items (diapers of all sizes, formula, onesies, baby wipes, etc)
• $25 gift cards to Kroger or WalMart to help with any other purchases such as medicine and prescriptions.

If you can help with any of these items, please bring them any time on Tuesdays or Thursdays between 9am – 5pm. If you need to drop them off at another time, please contact us as we’re at the Friendship House other times of the week.

Volunteer Opportunity: If you can spare 45 minutes on a Tuesday morning to help teach and lead our ladies in quilting, we would greatly appreciate it.

Our After-School Ministry is trucking along. We’re small but we are growing. The following items will be of great help:

• Board games for all ages
• XBOX games (the original XBOX)
• Gaming systems

Here are a couple of pictures from Friendship House:

A volunteer, Joan, helps the older children make an altar.

Lairen, our Ministry Assistant, helps some of the children through their worksheets.

This message seems so simple, yet we who follow Jesus recognize that we must be completely changed in order to do so. Jesus lived out His message in the perfect way, yet it still angered the religious leaders of the day that they still killed Him. Fully experiencing and then sharing the love of God can be tough stuff – 2,000 years later the world still doesn’t understand Him.

There are folks who walk through the Mission Centers that don’t understand the saving power of Jesus Christ and do not understand this love. Many of these folks won’t have anything special this Christmas. What better time to share that saving love with them?

We already have a significant portion of Christmas taken care of, but we still need some help. Here are a few ways you can love your Roanoke neighbors and help share the Good News of Jesus with them:

• Sponsor a child for Christmas. We have a handful that still need some help.
• Help fill Christmas boxes by purchasing a $25 Walmart gift certificate. We already have some, but we need at least 20 more.
• Donate food for our Christmas boxes. Hams, canned goods, potatoes, stuffing, dessert mixes, and pasta are all appreciated and needed.
• Donate household products and paper products, such as: laundry detergent, shampoo, soap, toothpaste, feminine products, paper towels, bathroom tissue, etc.
• Help us put together our Christmas boxes. The date and time will be determined soon.

All items will need to be brought in no later than December 15th. (Wow, Christmas is coming fast!)  Any questions? Email Nathan at nathan@rvba.org or call him at 540.632.2632.

Baptist Community Center needs:

* 2 or 3 hot water carafes or large thermas.

* Big Art Tablets.

* Model Cars/Planes for children all ages.

* Hot glue sticks (big and little).

* Fabric Paints all colors…white needed the most (need by December 1, 2009).

* Weekend snack bags (please call Pat Carter at 342-8452for more information).

* Graham crackers, gumdrops, peppermint candies, candy canes, cans of white icing, licorice sticks, red hots, any kind of hard candies, peppermint patties, etc. Children at the BCC will be making Gingerbread houses. (need by November 16, 2009).

* New or slightly used items for the Children’s Christmas Store (need by December 10, 2009).

* 10 bags of holiday Hershey kisses (need by December 10, 2009).

* Individual packets of Hot Chocolate (need by December 10, 2009)

* Bibles for Children

* Box of Copy Paper

* Construction Paper

* One skinny Christmas tree (4-5 feet)

Baptist Friendship House needs

* Household necessities such as toilet paper, shampoo, laundry detergent, etc.

* Non-perishable food

* Gently used clothes

* $25 gift cards to grocery stores to include in Christmas baskets

* Small, “fun” items we can use for Bingo prizes

As always, we can use volunteers and lots of prayer!

We’ll follow up soon with more needs for this family, but does anybody know of anyone? If you do, please call Nathan at 632.2632. Thanks!

Edit: We found a dentist. Thank you.

• Pint size jars with lids & rings (needed by Oct. 21)
• Volunteers to help with the Apple Butter day on Oct. 24, 2009 at 6:00 a.m. until 3 p.m.  All help is greatly appreciated.
• Applesauce
• Sugar (5 lb bags)

We hope to provide our community with a unique experience and good fellowship. Each family will receive a jar of apple butter for free.

Additionally, we could also use:

• Individually wrapped pieces of candy for the After School Fall Party.  Candy needed by Oct. 28, 2009.
• New or lightly used items for the Children’s Christmas Store needed by Dec. 10, 2009.
• Big Art tablets.

Please bring donations to the Baptist Community Center (101 17th St SE). Need more information? Call Pat Carter at 342.8452.

Thank you so much!

For the past two months, we have experimented in taking orders for our families for Angel Food boxes.

Angel Food Ministries is a non-profit and non-denominational Christian organization that seeks to assist lower-income families.

Operating since 1994, Angel Food Ministries serves over 500,000 families across the country each month. They offer a $30 food box containing over $60 worth of food.

The food is top-quality and plentiful – the five families who have participated so far look forward to the next month’s box.

The menu changes monthly. Here is what’s offered for September:

1.5 lb. Rib eye Steaks (3 x 8 oz.)
1.81 lb. (avg.) Perdue Tray Pack
Split Chicken Breast (2 large breasts)
4 lb. Chicken Thighs
1.5 lb. Pork Chops (4 x 6 oz.)
1 lb. 80/20 Lean Ground Beef
1.5 lb. 100% White Meat Turkey Burgers (4 x 6 oz.)
12 oz. Deli Ham
1 lb. Frozen Sweet Potatoes
1 lb. Frozen Green Beans
15 oz. Pears (Product of U.S.A.)
12 oz. Orange Juice Concentrate
(100% juice, no sugar added – makes over a quart of juice)
3 lb. bag Fresh Idaho Potatoes
2 lb. bag Fresh Onions
32 oz. 2% Shelf Stable Milk
Dozen Eggs
Dessert

As you can see, just the meat alone would cost $30, if not more, at the grocery store! View the full September menu to see other available options.

However, in the two months we’ve placed orders for our families for Angel Food boxes, we have found that a significant number cannot even afford the $30.

Here’s where you and/or your small group, missions group, or Sunday School class can help: By sponsoring a $30 box of food each month, you can directly and greatly improve the life of a local family. Mission Center staff would then place the order with Angel Food, pick up the box, and deliver it to the family.

A creative way to help can be to order a box of food for yourself. The $30 that you save from not buying the food at full retail can then be used to help a family at the mission enters.

If desired, prayer cards can be offered with ways to pray for the sponsored family. A note of encouragement can be included with the box to let the family know that you are praying for them. In God’s timing as relationships are built, other opportunities to further serve the family may appear.

I firmly believe sponsoring an Angel Food box can be an incredible way for Association churches and their members to make a concrete and positive impact on the lives of our lower-income families.

Please call Nathan White, Baptist Mission Centers Director, at 540.632.2632 if you and/or your group feel called to sponsor a box.

On Tuesdays, we play Bible bingo and Ginny Hardin leads a small Bible study. Thursday features a more in-depth Bible study and a meal.

Once a month we try to provide food bags for our ladies to take home. We also help them place orders for Angel Food boxes once a month, which allows them to get a box of restaurant quality food worth $60 for only $30. One box will feed a family of four for a week. However, some of the ladies cannot even afford an Angel Food box. (Learn more about Angel Food Ministries)

Thus, we have several needs:

• Donations of food – pasta, canned goods, easy-to-make meals, etc.
• Sponsorship of an Angel Food box. $30 a month will greatly help out the ladies that cannot afford to buy a box.
• 4th Thursday of the month: We need a team to lead the Bible study and prepare and serve a meal.

These ladies are so sweet and need to know that they are loved. Please prayerfully consider how you might be able to make an impact with your “needy neighbor in your land” (Deuteronomy 15:11).

Please call Nathan at 540.632.2632 if you have any questions or if you and/or your mission group would like to help.

The specific list that we need is as follows:

• Back packs (no wheels)
• packs of notebook paper (wide-ruled)
• tissues
• pencils (#2)
• one subject spiral notebooks
• erasers
• 12 inch rulers
• colored pencils
• markers
• gallon sized ziploc bags
• lunch boxes
• glue sticks
• copy paper
• zipper pencil bags
• 3×5 index cards
• blunt tip scissors
• 3 ring binders (2 inches are larger)

Donations may be dropped off at the Baptist Community Center, 101 17th Street SE. If you would, please call us at 342.8452 ahead of time to make sure someone will be there to receive you.