GIVEAWAY!!

aminata (center) and pat leigh (right) with a recipient

On July 3rd, CFNA hosted a giveaway to provide support and encouragement to several of our most recently arrived New American families. In the last month, over ten new Congolese families have started attending Drivers ESL classes; i.e., classes to assist students preparing to take their drivers license exam! To welcome them into the CFNA family, they were all invited to come to the Peace Center for a giveaway featuring numerous useful household items.

Volunteers from CFNA guided them around the Peace Center to pick out soap, shampoo, laundry detergent, dishes and much more. The chapel was filled with donated clothes and shoes available for the new families to take if needed. Twelve families in all were served on Tuesday night; seven new Congolese families and three new Syrian families. Additionally, several Congolese families who were not able to make it on Tuesday received items later in the week.

Throughout the evening, volunteers were able to converse with the recipients, and many expressed an interest in having someone pray for them, and in learning more about Jesus. The giveaway was a huge success and showed these new families what CFNA is and who it serves, the Almighty God of Grace who sent His Son to die for all of us, free of charge.

some of the items

A special thank you to the Lutheran Church Extension Fund for having donated many of the items included in the giveaway. A big thank you also, to all of the volunteers who made this happen!  Volunteer Aminata Sesay, also a CFNA scholarship student at Lutheran High South, shared, “It was great to see their excitement when they were choosing their gifts, and then hear their words of appreciation. It was a fun event!”

Please keep everyone at CFNA in your prayers and especially all these new families, that they may come to know more about the love of Christ through CFNA.

By Jacob Barber Lutheran Young Adult Corps