A "Soup"er Idea

We participated once again in the "Souper Bowl of Caring" - on Super Bowl Sunday, we collected canned goods (and donations) for the Amador Street Hope Center's food giveaway. It's all part of the Souper Bowl's mission of "Using the energy of the Super Bowl to mobilize youth in a united national effort to care for people in their local communities who are hungry and those in need."

Walk to Fight Hunger a Success

The crowd gathers at the beginning of the 2010 CROP Walk (left); the First Christian Church contingent celebrates at the finish (right).

First Christian Church participated once again in this year's CROP (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) Walk, held Saturday, May 15th at the Vallejo waterfront. The event benefits four local and one international agency fighting hunger. Because of the extreme need and poor economy, these agencies need our help more than ever. We were glad to help make the event such a success.

FCC lends a hand for Haiti

Thanks to the generous donations of our church family, we filled 26 infant kits to send to the beleaguered people of Haiti! Each kit, which will be distributed through Church World Service, contained six cloth diapers, two undershorts, two washcloths, two sleepers/gowns, two diaper pins, one sweatshirt, and two blankets. We also sent additional diapers, washcloths, and blankets to be used to make more kits, along with $2 per kit toward the shipping costs to get the kits to the people in Haiti. Well done, FCC Vallejo!

Relay For Life raises hope, August 2-3

Once again this year, we set out to do our part to "Paint a cancer-free world" at the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life. We were so pleased when the community stopped by to assist. The end result was a beautiful painting, and not only funds raised to assist the American Cancer Society, but also hope as we continue to search for a cure.

Together, we really can make a difference in the fight against cancer.

Mission collection project part of region-wide effort

Our regional church once again made a mission collection part of this past year's Annual Meeting in April. Our church played its part, bringing used eyeglasses to help the vision of people in the developing world. Another effort was collecting children's books to donate to a women's shelter in the Pacific Grove area (where the Annual Meeting is held, at the Asilomar conference grounds). Given our own ongoing efforts to collect and distribute kids' books, this was a great project for us to take part in!

Global Holiday Faire: amazing!

The annual Global Holiday Faire - the one-of-a-kind gift faire which we host in our church fellowship hall - was held on Saturday, December 1st! Our ecumenical committee - made up of members from 6 churches in Vallejo, American Canyon, and Benicia - created another successful event for what was (amazingly!) our 10th year!

The Faire is unique among holiday gift faires because it combines elements of traditional crafts shows, church bazaars, alternative gift markets, and fair trade sales to present the community with a wide range of gift choices, with all of the money spent going to nonprofit organizations. To read more about this outstanding and fun-filled event, and see how much we raised for 15 local and national nonprofits, click here.