Thank you for your support of Christian Service Center. Listed below are most needed items for each month. Please pray about choosing a time to help with ongoing needs. And please pray about making an appointment to visit the office. We would love to have groups from your church visit and see what God is doing!

January -Donations of packaged food items are requested - mac and cheese, grits, dry beans, rice, hamburger helper, jello, instant potatoes.

February- Canned goods - tomatoes, potatoes, vegetables, fruit, canned meats.

March - meal, flour, sugar, shortening, cooking oil

April- Sheets, towels, etc. These are not required to be new, just clean and placed in a plastic bag with the size written on the outside of the bag.

May- Items easily prepared for school age children: Individual mac and cheese, pop tarts, soup, juice boxes, microwavable meats, fruit cups, crackers.

June- We would like to encourage churches having VBS to collect soap. This has been a tremendous help in the past.

July -Donations of food items to be given to homeless individuals: Snack crackers, saltine crackers, tuna, Vienna sausages, small cans of deviled ham, chicken, individually wrapped candies (no chocolates please), fruit gummies, individual packs of mustard or ketchup, juice boxes. Individually wrapped plastic spoons or forks.

August- Notebook paper, pencils, pens, Crayola crayons 24 pack

September- Community Wide Food Drive September 28th. Location to be announced.

October- Christmas gifts for boys and girls, men and women. Please call Christy or Cheryl for details. 334-476-2605 or 334-576-3552.

November- We need food boxes to distribute to families in time for Thanksgiving. These boxes should contain food for the family to prepare their own Thanksgiving meal.

December- Food items that a family might like to have on hand for a New Year's Day meal.

Cheryl Myers

There will be a women's brunch at Rocky Mount Baptist Church on Saturday, April 27th at 10:30 AM. This is unrelated to REAL Women. The speaker will be Diane Bryson. Diane is the wife of former Mercy Me keyboardist, Jim Bryson. Jim played on and wrote the piano part for the song "I Can Only Imagine". Diane has been beating cancer for 15 years and has a powerful testimony. Please bring your favorite brunch item and join us.

The annual National Day of Prayer in Lanett will be Thursday, May 2nd at noon at the W.O. Lance Recreational Field, and in Valley at 6 PM at Fairfax First Baptist Church.

Don't miss the blessing of praying with others for our community.

The East Liberty WMU has created a private Facebook group for WMU ladies from our churches to join. This will help share WMU information across the association. You are encouraged to join the group. The group name is East Liberty Baptist Association WMU.

We are in need of Hot Wheels type cars and trucks for 5 - 9 year old boys for our next packing party. Thank you for supporting this ministry.

GriefShare is a network of grief recovery groups meeting around the world. It is a program with direction and purpose. With GriefShare participants will learn how to walk the journey of grief and be supported on the way. It is a place where grieving people find healing and hope. Our church will begin hosting a GriefShare group in June. It is a 13 week program. For more information and details, see Janice Grubbs.