Fair Trade Coffee & Chocolate Sales 1st Sunday of Each Month Stock up on the coffee and chocolate that you’ve been missing throughout the summer. Coffee sales resume on September 13 and continue on the first Sunday of the month through June of 2010. The Congregation Council has approved a $1.00 increase in the price of coffee only. This is a $1 donation to Incarnation’s scholarship fund for mission trips to be used by youth and adults who, for whatever reason, could not afford to participate in a trip without some financial help.
What is Fair Trade? Fair Trade guarantees producers in developing countries minimum prices that take into account their production costs, ensuring them a fair return for their labors. Fair Trade also advocates social and environmental standards in areas related to the production of goods, notably, coffee, tea, and chocolate among others. This increased income allows producers to feed their families, stay out of debt and keep their land. Fair Trade organizations encourage ecologically sustainable farming practices, education for boys and girls and training in nutrition, hygiene, and small business ownership for women.
When you buy fairly traded coffee, tea, and chocolate on the first Sunday of the Month, you are also helping a farmer access credit, improve crops, earn an adequate wage, drink clean water and, educate women and children.
Alternative Giving Fair Returns on November 21, 2009 Once again, people at Incarnation will have the opportunity to “Give a Gift, Transform a Life.” Throughout the Atrium and Gathering Space, there will be tables with representatives of each of Incarnation’s Ministry Partners. At some tables, there will be the opportunity to contribute to supporting a secondary student in Tanzania, providing bed nets to countries where malaria is a huge problem through Global Health Ministries, or learning more about how you can use your gifts in support of local ministry partners like LifeHaven or Families Moving Forward.
This year, there will also be the opportunity to bid on some silent auction items from Tanzania. Funds from the purchase of these items will be donated to the scholarship fund for mission trips. As you shop, you are transforming lives of people who you will never meet, but who will never forget your generosity. The Alternative Giving Fair is held during all worship services on Sunday, November 22.
Incarnation Sunday School Learns about Ministry Partners The second Sunday of each month Incarnation Sunday School kids participate in a rotational unit about one of Incarnation’s Ministry Partners. In the past two years, they have sampled the food packaged for Feed My Starving Children, written letters to the Sunday School kids at Prince of Peace and Our Redeemer in Chontala, Guatemala, learned how to carry jugs of water on their heads and worked with the quilting group to make wall hangings for the four pre-schools at New City Parish and the two kindergartens in Tanzania.
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For more information about these opportunities or about Incarnation's ministry partners, contact Lynda Thompson at 651-484-7213.
Stock up on the coffee and chocolate that you’ve been missing throughout the summer. Coffee sales resume on September 13 and continue on the first Sunday of the month through June of 2010. The Congregation Council has approved a $1.00 increase in the price of coffee only. This is a $1 donation to Incarnation’s scholarship fund for mission trips to be used by youth and adults who, for whatever reason, could not afford to participate in a trip without some financial help.
The second Sunday of each month Incarnation Sunday School kids participate in a rotational unit about one of Incarnation’s Ministry Partners. In the past two years, they have sampled the food packaged for Feed My Starving Children, written letters to the Sunday School kids at Prince of Peace and Our Redeemer in Chontala, Guatemala, learned how to carry jugs of water on their heads and worked with the quilting group to make wall hangings for the four pre-schools at New City Parish and the two kindergartens in Tanzania.