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This Just In: October 29

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There’s always something happening at Glen Mar:
– Used Real Pumpkin Collection
– Jewels for Hope – Saturday, Nov 6 from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm
– High School Random Acts of Kindness
– Operation Christmas Child
– Understanding The True Meaning of Christmas
– What is a Legacy Gift?

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Cold Weather Shelter Will Need Volunteers Jan. 31 – Feb. 7

Opportunities to Serve, The Messenger
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By Joan Marshall
Each year, Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center sponsors a Cold Weather Shelter during the winter months to provide short-term shelter for those in need in Howard County. Faith congregations sign up to “host” each week of the shelter, which typically operates from late November through the beginning of April. Glen Mar has been a host congregation each year since the shelter opened in 2004.

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Dancing Needles Group Cares for Others

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by Lois Hildebrand
Do you enjoy knitting and crocheting or would you like to learn? If so, we need you in our Dancing Needles group. This group makes prayer shawls that are given to people in hospitals and those in need of special care as a reminder that others care and are praying for them. The group is also making baby blankets for our newborns and scarves for our armed forces.

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