To sponsor a needy family(ies) with food assistance this year, please contact WFCM by clicking on this link (you may sponsor a family for one or both holidays). Gift cards to local grocery stores are also being accepted.
For more information and a list of suggested food items for different family sizes, pick up a flyer located at the Sign Up Center in the Narthex.
HELP WESTERN FAIRFAX CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES’ HOLIDAY FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
To sponsor a needy family(ies) with food assistance this year, please contact WFCM by clicking on this link (you may sponsor a family for one or both holidays). Gift cards to local grocery stores are also being accepted.
For more information and a list of suggested food items for different family sizes, pick up a flyer located at the Sign Up Center in the Narthex.
Pender is partnering with Western Fairfax Christian Ministries to provide backpacks for students in need at Rocky Run Middle School.
Help us collect 40 large size backpacks, with at least 2 compartments, size 17-19 inches high x 13 inches wide x 10 inches deep.
Please drop off the backpacks at Pender by Sunday, August 11th in the donation box next to the Church Office.
(Shopping suggestions: High Sierra at Costco for $18; or Jansport Supermax at Target for $34.99)
Fourth of July necklaces in red, white & blue for sale
June 30th between all 3 services
created by our Ruth Women’s Circle
All proceeds will go to support Western Fairfax Christian Ministries and the local Elementary Backpack Program.
(Other new colors of necklaces will also be available for purchase and the women have a new design for bracelets, earrings and necklaces! — Stop by the area located near the coat racks to purchase the jewelry.)
One partnership that we are particularly proud of is that with Western Fairfax Christian Ministries. When evaluating the relationship as an entrepreneur, it is very unusual that WCFM and Pender ReGift Thrift Store should be partners. We essentially have the same business, in the same location, occupying the same marketplace. We are clearly competitors! PRTS’ competitive advantages are that we sanitize more upholstered furniture than WCFM, and we have a stronger recycling stream for our discarded goods. WCFM has a better location.
But both ministries attribute their service to God, and in this relationship our partnership becomes not only possible, but flourishes. Clients they cannot serve are referred to us, and vice versa. We’ll trade a couch for a bed. In an recent pickup, Martin (PRTS) provided the truck and Tom (WCFM) provided the labor: The orgs split the booty.
Forced out of their location because the landlord could get more money from a different tenant, WCFM has recently split and relocated both their food pantry and their thrift store. The thrift store is now located at 13939 Metrotech Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151. Some of their donors still have not found them at their new location, but because we’re partners, we are happy to tell them how to get there.
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