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       Is your group looking for a HOLIDAY project for 2008?  Would you like to brighten this year for some residents of Robeson County?  The Church and Community Center needs your help.

      For the last two years, we have assisted a special group of people:  grandparents who raise their grandchildren who are 18 and younger.  We have also encouraged younger adults who need assistance, to gain job readiness skills by becoming Christmas Investors.  In exchange for 30 hours of volunteer support, 38 Christmas Investors who have begun work hope to receive a generous Christmas for their families.  This investment of their time allows the Investors to be active partners instead of passive recipients.

     How can you help?

     First, we need gifts for children aged birth through age 11.  Non-violent toys, games, books are needed -- as well as new caps, scarves and gloves and other warm outerwear.

     Second, we will turn cash donations into gift certificates for teens and parents.  On your check, please indicate your gift is for our Christmas Store.

     Third, we can use non-perishable foods that will fill boxes of food to help stretch limited resources between Christmas and the New Year.

     We must receive all gifts and cash donations by Monday, December 15.

     Call 910.738.5204 now to tell us you will contribute to our Christmas Store this year, or to volunteer at the Christmas Store.  We will appreciate your help!

If you have an extra hour even one morning each week, we need your assistance.  We need someone with a van or pick-up truck to get perishable food from a Fairmont grocery store and deliver it to our food pantry.  This is a ministry that is vital if we are to keep serving our hungry neighbors.  Call 738-5204 and ask for Jackie if you can help!

     If you have even 2 hours to give once each week, we could certainly use your help working in our food pantry.  We are busiest during the morning hours from 9:30 to 11:30 or noon.  We need help assisting people who come for food.  A friendly face and a smile in your heart goes a long way to lift the spirits of those who seek our  help.  The ability to lift groceries is a plus.  Call 910-738-5204 and ask for Jackie if you want to volunteer.

     Welcome to Carolina Automotive Group, a business partner of RCCCC.  For those of you who may not know, Lumberton Motors -- part of the Carolina Automotive Group -- gave us their former property where we now have our offices and Home Store.  You may want to check out the pictures on the Photo Gallery link.

     We are pleased that Carolina Automotive Group believes in our work and wants to support us in this way, so feel free to check out this new link.

   Today is the last day before school starts in Robeson County and thanks to the generosity of so many groups of friends, a final count of 247 school supply kits were distributed to children in Kindergarten through 12 grade.  These supplies, valued at over $6.00 for each kit, will make it easier for children who would have started their first day without the necessary tools to be successful.  We are grateful to all who participated.  You made this ministry possible!   

Our new address is 600 West 5th St. off I-95 at Exit 17!

Welcome to our new website!  Browse around and let us know if you have any questions.