Share the Light through 2011 Christmas Ingathering
Update: Congregations may still sign up to provide Christmas gifts for children served by Lutheran Children and Family Service.
Please consider shining your light to children in need in our area by adding LCFS foster children to your gift list this year! For many of these children, the gifts donated by congregations through the Ingathering are the only Christmas gifts they may receive.
Deadline for all donation commitments is extended to November 15.
For 44 years, congregations of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod have revealed the light of God’s love shown to us in Christ by providing for people in need, locally and globally, with a variety of holiday gifts. Last year, 62 SEPA congregations donated more than $100,000 in goods and funds through the Christmas Ingathering managed by Liberty Lutheran. You’re invited to participate in this outpouring of God’s love by participating in the 2011 Ingathering on Sunday, December 4.
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The annual SEPA Ingathering has
- Been a ministry of SEPA congregations for 44 years.
- Provided more than $100,000 in donations each of the last six years.
- Given gifts to more than 1,000 children who otherwise would have no holiday gifts.
Gifts and donations gathered by your congregation can support
- Lutheran Children and Family Service -- monetary donations
- Seamen’s Church Institute -- monetary donations and new bars of bath soap
- Lutheran World Relief -- quilts, layette kits, sewing kits, and school kits
- Local Lutheran Food Pantries -- bags of non-perishable food items
- Local institutions -- gift packets
Deadline for commitments for all donations is extended to November 15.
It’s easy to participate and see how our congregational donations will multiply as we work together to serve people in need. There are five simple steps:
- Choose which kind of donation your congregation will give
- Let us know using the Commitment Form by October 31, 2011. Deadline for commitments for all donations except LCFS gifts is extended to October 31.
- Invite people in your congregation to give
- Collect donations in your community
- Deliver donations to a collection point on Sunday, Dec. 4
Five congregations serve as collection points on Sunday, Dec. 4 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. All donations should be delivered between those hours to one of these locations:
Christ’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
700 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Oreland, PA 19075
215.886.4612
Christ Lutheran Church
7240 Walnut St.
Upper Darby, PA 19082
610.352.1610
Little Zion Lutheran Church
267 Morwood Road
Telford, PA 18969
215.723.7404
St. John Lutheran Church (Mayfair)
3101 Tyson Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19149
215.624.5505
Zion Lutheran Church
39 Bonnie Brae Rd.
Spring City, PA 19475
610.948.3323
Questions?
Contact the or call 215.456.5700.
