Desert Messenger July 15, 2015 Jul. 2015 | Page 10

10 www.DesertMessenger.com Community Action Teams Submitted by Maggie Ross In the past five years Thrivent Financial and Covenant Lutheran Church have been instrumental in conducting fund raising projects and contributing thousands of dollars to the Community of Quartzsite. Three years in a row we had our Community Spaghetti Feeds, our annual garage and bake sales, and last year we held our first Community Roundup. We have been blessed as a church community to have been able to request these matching funds and have continued to receive them generously from Thrivent. In addition to our matching fund mon- DEADLINE : WED. AUG. 5TH for august 12th edition Desert Messenger Email: [email protected] 928-916-4235 www.DesertMessenger.com ies, the Yuma Chapter of Thrivent saw the urgent need for the Food Bank to fix their freezer and gave us an additional $1,000.00 which we included in our total donation of $2,400.00. The other blessing has been our Snowbird congregation and community volunteers who have worked hard to contribute time and monies to our mission of supporting the Food Bank and helping Isaiah 58. This past year Thrivent began a new program called Thrivent Action Teams. If you were a Lutheran Thrivent Member you were entitled to put in for two community projects each consisting of $250.00 seed money to use in a larger fund raising project or to spend directly on a project that was already ongoing, example Hero Comfort. With these action team funds we were able to provide food items for the Senior Thanksgiving baskets, purchase toys for the children’s Christmas party. Items were purchased for Hero Comfort, vandal- July 15, 2015 ism repairs were made and paid for at Covenant Lutheran Church and new computer and software was provided to replace our old. An ongoing project was that of recycling bottles and aluminum cans which added an additional $200.00 XX