Special Offering

Our church raised $1700 in a special offering last Sunday to support our mission in Pearlington. The church Session approved the group to take the money with them to support the PDA Village as needed. Hopefully, limited or no strings are attached to the money and the travelers can feel the call to do the right thing with the offering. The Summerville Presbyterian Church has budgeted (yes I said budgeted - like Dorchester Pres needs to be doing) money to take down to Pearlington. SPC has 4 people signed up, and DPC has 4 people signed up. 4 slots are still available. There is still time to sign up for the week of Oct 12th.

SPC will host a covered dish lunch in their gym from 12:30 - 2 PM on Sunday, Sept 28, to prepare for the trip. We will fill out the paperwork (Presbyterians always have to be decent and in order :) ) for the trip and set the logistics of when everyone is leaving and how many vehicles, etc.

We have cleanup work to finish from Katrina. Gustav and Ike have added to the damage in certain places (about 100 homes either west of Hwy 604 or south of US 90). Let's finish what we started and help get people back to normal even if it means helping them resettle. I think that it is time for discussion.