Missions/Service Volunteer Opportunities:

• Love Packages is a ministry aimed at putting Christian literature and bibles into the hands of people around the world. Christians all across the USA - people just like you - send bibles, Sunday School materials, books, etc.  Love Packages sends them to ministries in poor countries to distribute freely to people hungry for the Word of God.  These are materials that would have sat collecting dust on shelves or been thrown away. Now it's being used to reach souls for Christ, encourage and build up the Church, and the raising up and training of leaders to shine the light in dark places.  The Missions Committee is collecting following items for Love Packages through May 31:

• Bibles (new or used): Bibles, New Testaments, Bible Portions, Individual Gospel Booklets
• Books & Paperbacks: All Christian Books - Adult or Children, Fiction or Nonfiction
• Magazines: Magazines from a Christian Publisher
• Sunday School Supplies: Adult quarterlies and all teacher manuals in any amount from all publishers.  Children's quarterlies if you have the teacher's manual and at least 8 student manuals.
• Daily Devotionals: Upper Room, Daily Bread, In Touch, etc.
• Tapes (cassette & VCR), CD's, DVD's, Records: Music, Movies, teaching
• Puppets, Noah's Ark, Bible Games, Nativity Sets, Biblical Puzzles:  Anything that helps to present the gospel.

• Hymnals & Musicals: Hymnals that are in fairly good condition.

• Volunteers are needed at BASIC NEEDS MINISTRY, 5533 NC 42 W, Garner (40/42), on Mondays from 6 to 9 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Volunteers are needed at the SHEPHERDS SHELF FOOD PANTRY, 901 Old Fairground Road in Willow Springs on the 2nd & 4th Saturdays of every month from 7:30 to 10 a.m.  Mount Zion is collecting rice and beans for May.  Place your donation on the shelves in the Narthex.