For more than thirty years, each year in December, the Christmas Basket Project is a local hands-on mission project.
Come to St. Mark's on "Christmas Basket Morning" and you may find yourself standing in line with a box, waiting for your turn to put it on the conveyor and walk it down the line as it is filled with food. ...or you may stand on the line adding the cans or boxes or sacks from your cases of food to each basket. You may be one of those who loads the boxes of food into your pickup or SUV. Or you may be specially blessed to be one of those who delivers the gifts to a family or two. In 2011, we were able to bless 288 familes with food baskets and over 260 volunteers the opportunity to be in Service as the hands and feet of Jesus.
Each basket is two large boxes of groceries and a blanket. We deliver the baskets to their doors, making the trip a part of the gift.
As we make these deliveries, we often discover other needs that lead to follow-up projects.
Come to St. Mark's on "Christmas Basket Morning" and you may find yourself standing in line with a box, waiting for your turn to put it on the conveyor and walk it down the line as it is filled with food. ...or you may stand on the line adding the cans or boxes or sacks from your cases of food to each basket. You may be one of those who loads the boxes of food into your pickup or SUV. Or you may be specially blessed to be one of those who delivers the gifts to a family or two. In 2011, we were able to bless 288 familes with food baskets and over 260 volunteers the opportunity to be in Service as the hands and feet of Jesus.