CHURCH NEWS December 17, 2006

Christmas Lights Tour – Tuesday, December 19, 6:00 pm will be our Christmas Lights Tour.  If you are interested in going in the Blue Angel to see the lights, please sign-up “lights” on the Friendship register. Refreshments will follow at the church.

Christmas Eve Candle Lighting Service will be here at the church at 7:00 p.m. Child care will be provided.

Year End Giving/Planning: Many of you who call Omak First Presbyterian Church your church home will be giving year-end financial gifts.  While we are still running a deficit for the year, with strong giving these last two weeks we hope to end the year in the black.  In order to meet IRS regulations, we want to remind you that to receive credit in 2006, your  gift  must either be placed in the offering plate, delivered to the church office, or if sent by mail, postmarked by no later than December 31, 2006.  The same deadlines apply to gifts of stocks, bonds and IRAs.  If stocks or bonds are given to the church, you may take the full market value as a contribution and pay no capital gains taxes.   Also, a new law this year gives donors over 70 ½ a limited opportunity to make tax free gifts to the church from their IRAs.    For information regarding giving, please contact your tax advisor or church treasurer, Lyle Caudill.

Christmas Dinner for the Needy – Omak Seventh Day Adventist Church, 425 W 2nd Ave, Omak, December 21, 5-7 pm

Manfisher Ministry is serving Dinner for the Needy on Christmas Day at 1 pm – they are accepting donations of prepared/unprepared food, money to purchase food, gifts for homeless adult and children, and help from anyone called by God to assist in this holy calling of feeding the poor on the day of our Lord’s birth.
Suggestions for side dishes:  stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, rice, macaroni and cheese, sweet potatoes/yams, cranberry sauce, corn, jello, dessert/cookies.
Suggestions for gift ideas:  gloves, hats, scarves, socks, men’s large tube socks, Christmas goodies, toiletries, blankets, toys. Please contact Kristin Lester at 826-6794 or Ed Powidzki at
826-4574. 

His Gathering ’06 – Churches of the community are bringing in the New Year with worship at the Cornerstone Christian Fellowship – corner of Riverside Dr. and Locust St., Omak, December 31, 6-8 pm. Refreshments afterwards. More than a dozen local worship teams will lead in worship. Come and fellowship with believers from all over the Okanogan and Methow valleys. Everyone is welcome!