Baby Bottle Boomerang is one of
the ways PRC raises funds and it goes on all year long. People take the bottles, fill them with
coins, bills, and checks and then return them to the Center. We attach a card that gives the donor
opportunity to get a receipt for their donation sent to them at year’s
end. This is a really neat way to share
with others what the Center is all about, while bringing in the funds that help
us help moms and their babies.
If you have never participated in this fund raiser, you are welcome to
stop by the Center and we will give you as many bottles as you can use or
distribute. However, over the past year
we have given out over 300 bottles and more than half of them are still
out. So this is a shout out for bottle
return. Everyone with bottles you have
had for several months are urged to return them. Even if they are partially full, or
empty. Recently we ordered 400 more
bottles and was so glad to do it, in order to fill requests from several church
organizations
Do you have an ice cream churn?
The Center is planning to supply 300 servings of homemade ice cream, at
the Grills Gone Wild event sponsored by the Rotary Club of Panama City
Beach. The date is November 19 from 3-6pm at St. Andrews. If you can help with the ice cream or just
come man the booth for a little while, please call the office.
Saturday, September 17 -
Volunteer Training has been cancelled for September. Please watch for news about a training in
October.
Saturday, September 24 –
Life Clinic at Rutherford High School Gymnasium, the PRC will have a manned
table to assist all who are interested in our services and to share what we
do. Other exciting events will be
happening at this clinic from other health and spiritual providers in the area.
September 29 – October 1, 2016
– Sound The Call conference presented
each year by Florida Baptist Children’s Home.
If interested, please call the office and we can give you the details
Saturday, November 19, 2016
– Grills Gone Wild at St. Andrews from 3 to 6pm. Tickets are $10 each and all proceeds are
divided for local non-profits. Come support PRC at this event.
Sunday, January 2017 – Sanctity
of Human Life Sunday, Please mark your calendar and ask your pastor to call the
PRC and request a speaker to share what is being done in the Pro-life arena of
Panama City.
Baby
Boutique Needs:
·
New
Born diapers
·
Baby
Wipes
·
Baby
shampoo, wash, lotion etc.
Center
Needs:
·
Bible
Study leader (Tuesday evening 6-9, and Wednesday morning 9-11)
·
Receptionist (Monday afternoon 2-7, and Tuesday 1-4)
·
Nurse
(Monday afternoon 2-7)
·
Sanctity
of Human Life speaking invitation
·
Sanctity
of Human Life callers
·
Returned
or New Baby Bottles
Prayer Requests: Please remember to pray for this
ministry. The need is for vigilant and
perhaps even desperate prayers because this ministry is on the verge of
something great and I don’t know about you all, but I do not want to miss it.
“If any man come to Me and hate not his father
and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own
life also, he cannot be My disciple”
Luke 14:26. (KJV)
A
very strong word - hate, but our Lord used it to describe just how much He
expects from those who choose to be His disciple. It is interesting to note that 43 out of 53
translations of Luke 14:26 use the word “hate”
instead of phrases like “love me more” or “leave your family.” Perhaps we are not to actually “hate” them
like we understand the meaning today, however this, to me, shows how seriously
Jesus takes our commitment to follow Him.
Many
years ago God drove home the meaning of Luke 14:26 to me. After moving many miles from my family I
wanted to spend every weekend with them instead of getting actively involved in
a local church. I was placing more importance on visiting and being with my family,
than serving Him and working His fields.
It is often very difficult to choose our commitment to serve in a
ministry over our innate desire to help or be with our loved ones.
If
God is leading you to be a part of this ministry, by volunteering, giving, or
praying, I would like to take this opportunity to stress that this is a calling
from God, not from me or anyone here at PRC, and once you make a commitment to
time, money, or spiritual assistance, it is actually a commitment to follow
Jesus. More laborers are welcome.
With
all my love and prayers.
God
is sooo very good, all the time!!!!
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