Last Month...

We partnered with Open Door Mission at the Timberlake Outreach Center! The Timberlake Outreach Center, where we served, is the last chance for crucial resources like nonperishable foods, hygiene items, and even baby clothes. Thousands of families from our community shop there each year, which means there's a high need for supplies, processing, and sorting. While serving, we got to see in real time the people going through the store and taking part in the resources, made possible by the help of volunteers like us!

We'll be able to provide almost twenty dozen cookies for our ESL showcase! Thanks to our CCC family being the hands of Jesus from home, our ESL students will be able to share homemade cookies with their friends and family as they celebrate their growth in English!

May Volunteer Projects

When we serve in Local Missions, we believe that we are being discipled in compassion to meet the needs of our city. ‍

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Saturday Serve—on a Friday! | Catlin Elementary

Join us for a fun project with Catlin Elementary! May 1 is their school carnival, and they're looking for volunteers to help run games for students. Let's meet our school partner's needs by showing up and joining the end-of-year celebration!

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‍Hands from Home | Inspiration Cards

We're excited to serve those in our community experiencing homelessness and poverty by creating and donating inspiration cards to Open Door Mission! By making these cards, we're letting the guests at Open Door know that CCC is in their corner, praying for them and cheering them on. This is a fun, crafty project in which the entire family can participate!

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‍Devotional

‍“If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”–James 2:15–17 (ESV)

There's a prevailing attitude of “preach the gospel, and everything else will take care of itself.” We often hear that the appropriate response to the world's social issues isn't policy, or giving, or action—it's more Jesus. Not only does James challenge this idea, but he argues that “more Jesus” without action is not more Jesus at all! A dead tree produces no fruit, and in the same way, a dead faith does not meet the needs of neighbors. A living faith, overflowing with abundant love, seeks to meet the needs of the hungry or naked or sick, just like Jesus did, while also meeting their spiritual needs. It's not that the gospel is insufficient without justice; it's that a gospel without justice is incomplete. When we serve on Local Missions, we want to live out a complete gospel that sees the lost saved and the needs of our city met with compassion!

Looking forward to serving with you,

Danté Edwards
Assistant Director of Missions
dantee@cccomaha.org

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