What: Help out Captivate Church
When: Wednesday, Feb 15th (the day AFTER valentine’s), afternoon until late.
Where: 400 N Luzerne Ave, Baltimore, MD 21224

For hundreds of years, western cultures have used “Valentine’s Day” to celebrate romantic love, or mourn the lack there-of. But of the Saints who bore the name Valentine, none are remembered for championing romnatic love. The earliest records of the first St. Valentine suggest a far different story, one of unconditional trust, hope, and faith Jesus Christ.

This year, Fusion will be helping Captivate Church’s South campus for a Valentine’s Day (actually the day after) dinner for the kids and parents in their community. If you are interested in setting up, preparing food, or actually serving during the dinner, email missions@fusionfellowship.org.

In inner-city Baltimore, professional (and well equipped hobbyist) photographers will take quality photos and editors will perform rudimentary touch-ups (training provided) and print the pictures. We would like to have makeup artists on hand. A small army of hosts will be needed to greet, direct, feed, and converse with the guests. The coordinators suspect ~30 volunteers will be needed in addition to the photographers.

Where might you fit in?

We need greeters and hosts, food preparers and servers, and a handful of people just to talk to the guests, if that is your thing. In addition, if you have a laptop, you can be a photo editor. Are you a photographer? A makeup artist? If you are interested in participating, please email missions@fusionfellowship.org. If you’d rather speak to a living person, the following people can help you on Sunday:

• Colleen Smith – hosting / hospitality
• Tanya Curtis – makeup / hair styling
• Aaron Curtis – photo editors / photographers

Details

• What: Baltimore Help Portrait
• When: December 4th – Tech Team: 10am-4:30pm, All Other Volunteers: 11am-4:30pm, Event: 12-4pm
• Who: As many of you as possible
• Guests: People who may otherwise not have a nice family Christmas photo

Helpful links:
National Help Portrait web page
Baltmore’s Help Portrait community page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operation Christmas Child (OCC) – Three Ways to Get Involved!

This year for OCC we have ways people can get involved.  The first way is to donate items we can use at our packing party on October 30^th to pack shoeboxes. We need school supplies, personal hygiene items, toys, and hard candy for boys and girls from age 2-14.Bulk items like packs of soap or bags of toys will be opened and split between several boxes.   At our packing party the kids and their parents will work together to choose from all the donated items and make a box for a child.  It’s a fun time with food and fellowship as the kids serve other kids. We will also accept donations of money to help purchase additional supplies or cover the cost ($7 per box) or shipping and shoeboxes either plastic or cardboard.

The second way to get involved is to attend the packing party.  It will be help on October 30^th from 2pm-4pm in the Children’s Education building.  We’ll have music, food, and of course items to pack.  This event is not limited to families, anyone can attend.  We’ll watch a video about OCC to help the kids understand why they are packing the boxes, pack and decorate the boxes, and then pray for the boxes and the kids that they will go to.

If you are unable to attend to the packing party we have a third option.  We will have shoeboxes and instructions available in the back of church every Sunday that you can take home and pack yourself.  Spend some time praying about the child your box could go to and then have fun choosing items that will bring them joy when they open the box.  We ask that all boxes packed at home be returned to Fusion by Sunday Nov 6^th.

Once we have collected all the boxes we will deliver them to Chick-Fil-A for their collection event where they give us a coupon for a free sandwich for every box we turn it.  We give these coupons to Colleen Smith to use in her ministry in Baltimore.  We also get special barcodes for the boxes that give us an update as to what country our boxes went to to allow the kids to follow-up on the project.

We hope that everyone in Fusion is excited about OCC and will get involved in some way, if not all three ways.

Date: Saturday, May 28th
Time: 2:00pm <– Time subject to change.
Place: Emory UMC
Contact: karl.leifeste@gmail.com
Let me know if you plan on coming so I can keep you up to date.

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you…”

The Great Commission is still our charge today. One of Fusion’s own will be participating in a long term mission. Come and learn how God has already moved through this Christian, and how we, Fusion, can be a part of the Great Commission. All are encouraged to participate.

What: Fusion Missions Presentation
When: Tuesday, April 12th, 7pm
Where: Emory UMC (Where Fusion meets)