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Charitable Giving

Harriet Koscho — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 05:28:52 +0000

Generous Giving

Though we are a small church, we are generous in many ways. Whether it is giving money, or service, or supporting ministries through prayer, our desire is to be faithful givers. What each person or couple or family gives is between them and God. Our gifts are given to the church anonymously. Though a record of what you gave to the church during the year is available at years end, that is for tax purposes only, not to track what people give. All donations to the church are collected together and become income which can be used for expenses or outreach without regard to who gave it. We are the church giving together as a community. That is how our regular offering works.

Extra Giving

In 2025, we also plan to put a spotlight on many of the ministries within and outside the church that are meeting needs locally and around the world. If after learning about one of these ministries, you desire to give an extra donation to it from the church, you need to designate that donation by doing the following.

1) Make a check out to ‘Olympic View Community Church’, but designate on the “for” line what it is it is to be used for (for example: Thanksgiving baskets; Northaven; Camp Koinonia; BVS, etc.).
2) If you give a cash donation, put in in an envelope and note on the inside or outside of the envelope what it is to be used for.

A list of ministries and organizations we encourage supporting in 2025, is below. You can choose to give to any of them at any time, or you can choose to wait until we put the spotlight on one of during the year. Some of these ministries offer opportunities to get involved or to give service. Some in the congregation have served in the past, or are doing so now.

God calls us all to serve, support, pray and give generously.

Roger Edmark
Moderator

A) Church of the Brethren Denominational Ministries – “One Great Hour of Sharing” is collected for these ministries

Core Ministries

· Brethren Volunteer Services – BVS (1)

· Discipleship Ministries

· Global Mission

· Messenger and Communication

· Ministry Assistance

· Peace Building and Policy

Emergency Disaster Fund/Brethren Disaster Ministries

· Children’s Disaster Services – CDS (2)

· Global Response

· Earthquake Response

· Hurricane Response

· Nigeria Crisis Fund

· Rebuilding Program

B) Pacific Northwest District

· Congregational Support (Already in 2025 budget)

· District Disaster Ministries (3)

· Camp Koinonia – (4)

· Camp Myrtlewood

C) Other Brethren Agencies and Brethren Aligned Organizations

· On Earth Peace – OEP (5)

· Eder Financial

· Bethany

· Community Peacemaker Teams – CPT (6)

· Heifer International

· New Community Project – NCP (7)

D) Local Organizations and Ministries

· Northaven – (8) (Already in 2025 budget)

· Daycare at the Nook at Northaven (ReWA)

· North Helpline – (9)

· CROP Walk – (10)

· Thanksgiving Baskets – (11)

· Service Ministry with the Northaven Community – (12)

Men’s Breakfast

Harriet Koscho — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 06:05:00 +0000

Meets at Northaven at 6:30 am every Thursday morning.

It’s still named “Men’s breakfast” because it was started a very long time ago. Everyone is welcome – there are definitely some regular attendees who are women!

At each gathering somebody presents a topic for education and discussion by the group.

Maple Leaf Ice Cream Social 2018

Harriet Koscho — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:45:28 +0000

Materials:

at least 300 3-oz paper cups

500 paper clips

Reflections for Lent, from the Desk of Rev. Jeffrey L. Barker

Secretary Olympic View Community Church — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:44:03 +0000

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

As we go to press with the March newsletter, Ash Wednesday and the liturgical season of Lent has begun. As most of you know, Lent is a forty day spiritual journey of self reflection and self examination. During this forty day walk with Jesus, through our scripture readings and worship services, we are daily reminded “who” we are, and “whose” we are!

The season of Lent confronts our spiritual shortcomings and calls us to repent of our failure to be the disciples christ and God call us to be. While Lent is a time of intense reflection and inward repentance, it is also a time of hope, as we pray, work and serve others in Christ’s name. In that vein, the season of Lent culminates on Maundy Thursday.

For we Brethren, Maundy Thursday is the night we hold “Love Feast”. Love Feast remains on of the most profound and powerful signs and symbols of our church’s worship live. When Brethren come together for this annual meal and worship service during Holy Week, we are reminded of our relationship with God, Christ and all disciples around the world!

This year, Maundy Thursday falls on March 24^th. As we gather in the fellowship hall that night, we will share a simple meal. We will pray and read scriptures from the Gospels. We will ponder the mystery and power of Christ’s act of washing his disciples feet, a sign and symbol of God cleansing and forgiving all who have faith and seek to follow Jesus.

I pray all who can will attend Love Feast this year. If anyone would like to attend but needs a ride, please call Jessica in the office and we will work on getting you to and from church.

I look forward to seeing a faithful turnout this year for Love Feast on March 24^th. More information can be found on the following pages of this newsletter.

Peace be with you all,

Pastor Jeff

A message from Interim Pastor, Jeff Barker…

Secretary Olympic View Community Church — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:29:38 +0000

Pastor’s Notes…

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

As we send out this October / November Newsletter, I have been with you as your Interim Pastor almost a month. The welcome and support I have received has been awesome! Thankfulness filled my heart as I began to think about this article, and the themes of Thanksgiving and gratitude seem only natural as I looked at the calendar of events and church meetings scheduled for November.

In November we will host the OV Holiday Craft Bazaar (more details in the coming pages!) and we will also have our annual Fall General Assembly and Potluck on November 15. At this meeting, the church’s major business, financial and ministry issues for the concluding and upcoming year will be discussed and faithfully discerned.

Then, we will conclude November by preparing and distributing Thanksgiving Baskets to community members in need. Many hands and hearts will be needed to purchase, prepare and deliver these baskets to our neighbors in the community. Please see Jessica’s article on Page 3 which outlines how you can help support this major end of the year mission-outreach!

November and the season of Thanksgiving are just around the corner. Let us, as a community and family of faith, all pledge to roll up our sleeves and help out where needed to serve Christ and our Parish in the month and days that lie ahead. God calls us to put our Thanksgiving faith into action. The season of Thanksgiving is here. We thank God for the gifts he has given us in the year now concluding. In faith, let us in return work to serve God and the church in November as sign and symbol of our gratitude and thankfulness to God.

Peace be with you all,

Pastor Jeff