Helping Hands

Dear Beloveds,

We have been blessed with such a loving and caring community at Pali Pres! I have seen time and time again the love and compassion that has been shown to one another here in our church family. This is the way that God’s love shines through us, when we put love into action, and it is borne out into the world.

Proverbs 27:17 tells us “A friend is a friend at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”

We become even closer to one another when we can come and help during a time of greater need or crisis.

In this same mind, many years ago, our church developed something called “The Helping Hands List”. People could sign up to be on this list in order to be called in a time when extra helping hands were needed for someone in our church or in our community.

If you were on the Helping Hands List, you could be called to come alongside our deacons and help in different ways in our church.

One of the ways that you could help would be to join a meal train when someone had been ill or had an operation, and knew they would not be able to prepare meals for themselves for days or weeks. Another way you could help was with memorial services, when extra cookies and treats were needed for a family.

There were many other ways that one could help by being a helping hand; the deacons would use this list to ask people if they were available to help take our folks to doctors offices for appointments, or in various little ways, like going to the grocery market for a shut in.

We would like to give everyone the opportunity to be on the Helping Hands List. This is a beautiful and wonderful way to help out in a pinch, and engage in a ministry that is most needed and appreciated.

If you would like to join the Helping Hands List for this year, please let me know by emailing me, and we will sign you up.

Thank you for being part of this ministry.

With great love for you,

Pastor Grace