At FPCP's Sunday morning service, during our weekly offering, you will see children walking joyfully down the center aisle, collecting quarters from grown-ups. When their hands are full, the children walk (or hop, or skip!) back up the aisle to put those quarters in the Goat Bank -- a tall, clear, cylindrical tube with room for $120 in quarters.
The Goat Bank is our Children's Mission to support the Goat Project at Heifer International, a nonprofit founded to help end hunger and poverty throughout the world. Whenever we fill up our Goat Bank, we send that $120 to Heifer International, and the organization then purchases a goat for a family in need somewhere in the world.
This goat is no ordinary gift. Giving a farm animal to a family in need is like giving them a small business to run. Farm animals provide families with wool, milk, eggs, and more -- items they can use or eat or take to market. Farm animal donations provide families with critical support that can increase their access to medicine and school as well as food and a sustainable livelihood.
To date, the children in FPCP's congregation have purchased 9 goats to help 9 families in different countries around the world, thanks to all of those quarters donated to the "Goat Bank" at every Sunday service!
For more information about Heifer International and this nonprofit organization's wonderful farm animal donation program, please visit www.heifer.org.
The Goat Bank is our Children's Mission to support the Goat Project at Heifer International, a nonprofit founded to help end hunger and poverty throughout the world. Whenever we fill up our Goat Bank, we send that $120 to Heifer International, and the organization then purchases a goat for a family in need somewhere in the world.
This goat is no ordinary gift. Giving a farm animal to a family in need is like giving them a small business to run. Farm animals provide families with wool, milk, eggs, and more -- items they can use or eat or take to market. Farm animal donations provide families with critical support that can increase their access to medicine and school as well as food and a sustainable livelihood.
To date, the children in FPCP's congregation have purchased 9 goats to help 9 families in different countries around the world, thanks to all of those quarters donated to the "Goat Bank" at every Sunday service!
For more information about Heifer International and this nonprofit organization's wonderful farm animal donation program, please visit www.heifer.org.
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