Friday night we had our CFC-SFC Teaching night. The topic of the night was AnCOP, and how it’s so much more than just a sponsor program; that it promotes livelihood and health as well; through community outreach programs. Being the AnCOP Representative for SFC this was a big deal to myself and my counter-part. As anxiety and concern flowed through our minds as the people started flooding in, I couldn’t help but just say “That’s It…All in your hands now Lord”.
The night went amazing! We were able to get our message out, but what really stuck out was the willingness our Brothers and Sisters have to serving not just our fellow man through AnCOP, but here on a local scale. We promoted our plans to Build the Church of the Poor by volunteering at local soup kitchens, community outreach programs and long-term care facilities, and people were eager to jump on board with us. It was such an awesome feeling.
Did it end there? To my surprise it didn’t. Last month SFC Winnipeg held their annual AnCOP fundraiser “LOVE NOTES”. That was a success, but when we first counted the monies raised, after all expenses paid off, we thought we were shy of our goal of continuing to sponsor 4 AnCOP Scholars. We had our monthly AnCOP Core Meeting today, and did our final monies count, we discovered there were a few calculation errors and discovered we didn’t hit our target goal…WE SURPASSED IT!!!!!
SFC Winnipeg is now sponsoring 3 Grade School Scholars and 3 Post Secondary Scholars!!! All in Your Hands Now Lord is right!!!
“Only a Life Lived for Others is a Life Worthwhile.” Albert Einstein
everything is Awesome,
Jerry