Back to School Event

Posted on August 6th, 2011

Farmville Baptist partnered with FACES (our local food pantry), the Youth Empowerment Center, and Minister Pamela LaRue to sponsor a Back-to-School event this morning to feed a hot breakfast to over fifty students and then escort them to the Youth Empowerment Center for a anti-bullying program. Afterwards, all the students received school supplies to help them with the beginning of school this Wednesday. This was truly a community effort! The following churches and businesses contributed school supplies and back packs to this event: Apostolic Faith Church of All Nations, College Presbyterian Church, Farmville Baptist Church, Farmville United Methodist Church, Farmville Presbyterian Church, Hampden-Sydney College, Heritage Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant/Beulah/Mt. Harmony United Methodist Churches, Reclaiming Our Lives Ministry, St. James Orthodox Church and Wal-Mart. We are so thankful that these churches and businesses partnered together to make this event possible!

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Community Food Pantry

Posted on August 18th, 2009

FACES On the third Saturday of every month, a group from Farmville Baptist has been helping out at FACES (Farmville Area Community Emergency Services), our local food pantry, in packing bags of food for our neighbors. Last Saturday, we bagged over 800 bags of food. FACES is located at 416 N. South St. (the address sign on the picture is wrong!). We try to get to FACES by 7:30 am, and we’re usually finished by 10:30 a.m.

FACES appreciates ANYTHING you can give, but your monetary donations go farther than your food donations. If you give FACES a $10.00 donation, they can buy up to 67 pounds of food! For every 15¢ you donate, they can buy one pound of food from the Virginia Food Bank! All of the money you donate goes to purchasing food and making FACES run, as all workers are volunteers.

To donate, write a check payable to “FACES” to:
P.O. Box 644
Farmville, VA 23901

For more information, visit the FACES website.

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