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FAIR TRADE SALES ORDER FORM.....CHECK OUT ALL THE GREAT THINGS YOU CAN PURCHASE AT A FAIR PRICE!
Fair Trade Products for Sale on
Sundays After Worship
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FAIR TRADE IS GOOD NEWS The stewardship committee is committed to the Fair Trade project and the first order of coffee is almost gone. We will be pre-ordering coffee, tea, chocolate and hot cocoa in the month of February to support Fair Trade. Order forms can be obtained in the church and office, as well as being distributed during fellowship hour. If you have any questions please contact Lisa Hartmann at 609-332-6854 or chefhartmann@comcast.net. One answer for small-scale farmers is fair trade. Fair trade shares the bounty of the coffee trade with those who grow the crop, helping them build a better future for themselves and their communities. Through fair trade, farmers earn a fairer share of income, have access to services that are otherwise unavailable, and gain long-term trading partners they can trust. By working together and pooling their resources to form a cooperative, farmers can sell their coffee directly to international buyers without relying on middlemen. They receive a fair price that not only covers their costs of production but guarantees a fair wage for their labors. Fair trade far surpasses the temporary assistance provided to farmers through charity. Instead, the ongoing business of long-term, fair trade relationships consistently contributes to the living conditions of farmers, their families and their communities. Cooperatives use profits from fair trade coffee sales to establish community development or improvement programs such as schools, health clinics, and training in areas such as leadership development. Fair trade farmers tend to use environmentally friendly growing practices — such as organic farming, composting, and shade growing (interspersing coffee trees among other plants) — all of which benefit the farmers, the land and the quality of the coffee. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) co-sponsors the Presbyterian Coffee Project with Equal Exchange, an employee-owned certified fair trade company which purchases 100% of its products according to fair trade standards. Equal Exchange was founded in 1986 to create a new approach to trade, one that includes informed consumers, honest and fair trade relationships and cooperative principles. Equal Exchange accomplishes these goals by offering consumers fairly traded gourmet products directly from 28 democratically run farmer cooperatives. |
Monthly meetings - We had our monthly meeting in
April and finalized plans for home communion/extended service for after church
on Sundays beginning in April. At home communion/extended service is available
to those who are shut-ins and unable to attend church on Sundays when we offer
communion. If you know of someone in need of at home communion, please let one
of the deacons know |
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Our next Bread of Life Mission
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What does that mean? Five for Five means that our congregation supports Presbyterian mission around the corner and around the globe through the four churchwide Special Offerings and basic mission support. The four churchwide Special Offerings include One Great Hour of Sharing (Easter Sunday), Christmas Joy Offering (12/21/2008), Peacemaking Offering (10/5/2008), and the Pentecost Offering (5/11/2008). Mission support is the term used for those funds that support the basic mission and ministry programs of the presbytery, synod, and General Assembly. That includes missionary support, national networks, as well as congregational resources and programming. |
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