Thanksgiving

We collected contributions for Harbor Interfaith Services to provide Thanksgiving baskets to local families in need.
4 large turkeys, stuffing and lots of canned goods were delivered in time for Thanksgiving.

November 2011

Upcoming Events

• December Dinner - Wednesday, December 14, 6:30 PM, Torrance, CA. Theme will be Warmth.
• Collect, sort and count coats, jackets, sweaters from the coat drive.  Prepare them for delivery and enjoy our success.
• Get an update on where our Shoe Boxes were delivered.

• Small Business Saturday - Saturday, November 26.  The 2nd annual Small Business Saturday® is a day dedicated to supporting locally-owned independent businesses on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year. We're asking millions of people to shop small at their favorite local stores and help fuel the economy.

• A vibrant small business community is critical to the health of the US economy and the cornerstone of the thousands of cities and towns.
• What really drives the U.S. economy? No, it is not war. It's small business.  Firms with fewer than 500 employees drive the U.S. economy by
• providing jobs for over half of the nation's private workforc
• paying 43 percent of total U.S. private payroll
• representing 99.7 percent of all firm
• creating more than half of the gross domestic product (private non-farm GDP)
• generating 65% of net new jobs
• producing 16.5 times more patents per employee than large firms
• Pledge your support for Small Business Saturday®
• www.smallbusinesssaturday.com
• Christmas Party and Gift Giving event - Wednesday, December 14, 4:00 PM, El Segundo, CA.  
• 50 children from the Boys and Girls Club of the South Bay have given a wishlist of a few things they want for Christmas.
• We choose a children, purchase items on their list and wrap them.
• Vivient hosts a Christmas Party where Santa hands out the gifts.

• Coat Drive - Ask your friends and family to clean out their closets.  We will be collecting gently used coats, sweaters, jackets, gloves, hats for our local people in need, in conjunction with One Warm Coat.

• We will distribute them to the homeless to at
  

Last year we collected 102!

Shoe Box Packing 2011

The Shoe Box Packing was a big success!

We packed 100 boxes,
over 1,000
toys, shoes, school supplies, toiletries and more!

 

And we had a lot of fun shopping and packing and hanging out with friends.

Your donations will be dropped of with Samaritan's Purse and distributed to needy children overseas.

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/ 

The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way to needy children around the world.