A thousand thank yous!

Last Sunday during the "Blessed to be a Blessing" distribution of funds, Dawn Byrd made an appeal to join her in supporting and volunteering at the Bozeman Community Café. The café serves a hot meal every evening to residents of Gallatin County who are in need of food assistance. Christ the King serves dinner at the café on the first Sunday of the month. Our next host date is May 5, 2013.

Dawn informed me this morning that she received $900 from nine households of the congregation.
Dawn's contribution plus the $900 received adds up to $1000.

A thousand thank yous goes out to the ten households who decided to give their "Blessed to be a Blessing" 100 dollar bill to Bozeman Community Café.

Many of you who gave have volunteered at the café before. Half of you who gave are new volunteers.

Your gift of money plus volunteer hours will help Christ the King stand in partnership with the Gallatin Valley Food Bank in addressing hunger here in the Gallatin Valley.

Family Promise in the News - and Coming to Ctk this summer

Family Promise is one of the many ministries in the Gallatin Valley that truly changes lives. I am thankful that CtK was one of the first congregations to sign up to participate in this ministry, and that support for Family Promise has continued to be so strong here.
If you haven't ever taken the "training"/orientation to be a volunteer, I encourage you to do so. It's only a couple of hours long, and gives good insight into what it's like both to give, and receive, the services Family Promise provides. A schedule of trainings is available online at the Family Promise website here (the next training is May 13th, at First Presbyterian Church, at 6pm - you can register online). CtK will be hosting families for four weeks this summer, from June 2nd-June 16th and July 14th-28th. There are tons of ways to help make this ministry to and with homeless families happen. Get trained and sign up!

Did you know that Family Promise of Gallatin Valley receives a Domestic Hunger Grant from the ELCA? You can read more about that here.

Did you know that Family Promise is looking for more congregations to help house families? Check out recent news coverage - from KBZK and ABCFOX.

Have you heard about Family Promise's upcoming fundraiser, "Celebrity Servers at the Bistro?" Get your tickets ($35 each) online for this tasty event at John Bozeman's Bistro, Monday, April 22nd, starting at 6pm. Local celebrities will be serving the food and all proceeds go to Family Promise. Check it out!