Thanksgiving is just around the corner, reminding us again of God’s abundant gifts to us. The past few weeks have brought horrendous loss and pain to the county. We continue to comfort and assist those whose losses have been great, and we hold the community in prayer, especially during this grieving/healing time following the fires.

Traditionally, each year at this time Northminster has received offerings of funds and goods to assist those in direst need in the San Diego community at Christmas time. In the past these offerings were received separately for the Community Christian Service Agency (CCSA), Military Outreach Ministries (MOM), and the Presbyterian Crisis Center (now known as Presbyterian Urban Ministries, BUM) over several Sundays prior to Christmas. This year ONE offering to benefit ALL THREE outreach agencies will be received on Sunday, November 14. Our gifts, therefore, will be available early enough to ASSURE that special Christmas assistance WILL be available to those in need in Clairemont, San Diego, and nearby communities.

Our thanks-giving is obvious in our thanks-living. We are so thankful for the OPPORTUNITY of being called into the service of God, the Giver of Life. Let us continue to pray for God’s people everywhere, and let us PARTICIPATE GENEROUSLY in this tangible giving of ourselves this Sunday.

Special ‘Thanksgiving Offering’ envelopes will be enclosed in the bulletins on Nov. 18. or your offering may be mailed to the Church Office, please mark it “Thanksgiving”.