Our congregation is small and there are not many younger people.  We have recently been blessed with several younger folks and were so proud that the young couple was expecting their first child.  We knew the baby was a girl; we wanted to have a baby shower for the expectant couple.

What a joy it was to see the young couple open package after package of fun items for their baby girl…little outfits, blankets, diapers, toys, everything a new family would need to welcome their baby home.

There is no better Mission of the Month than when we can help someone in our own congregation.  Here are a few pictures.

We had another mission for December.  We are in the Northern Deanery along with one other church, Episcopal Church of Wichita Falls.  Our two congregations worked together to fill our UTO (United Thank Offering) boxes. The United Thank Offering is a ministry of The Episcopal Church for the mission of the whole church. Through UTO, individuals are invited to embrace and deepen a personal daily spiritual discipline of gratitude. UTO encourages people to notice the good things that happen each day, give thanks to God for those blessings and make an offering for each blessing using a UTO Blue Box. UTO is entrusted to receive the offerings, and to distribute the 100% of what is collected to support innovative mission and ministry throughout The Episcopal Church and Provinces of the Anglican Communion.

In our joint effort, we collected these boxes.