New Hugs Announcement

Hey All!

I have a bit of new information about the Hugs event coming in December. Hugs is now a collaboration between Peach, Ekklesiah, and the Gallery Covenant Church (www.gallerycovenant.org). Here's how: On Saturday, December 12th, as part of their "Love St. Paul" initiative, the Gallery is meeting in Rice Park (around 9:00 a.m. for anyone whose interested) to tag-team with Matt Atkinson and Praxis to hand out decorated Christmas gift bags, coffee, hot chocolate, bag lunches, and socks, underwear, coats, hats, and mittens to the homeless community in Downtown. Part of the donations received at the worship concert will go to this event and will be distributed by Gallery volunteers the next morning. This new development makes everything even more exciting and makes the need for donations even greater! So, a quick recap: worship and prayer experience on Dec. 11th at 8:00 p.m. at Peach (price of admission is donation items, so bring your winter apparel!), then the next morning, Dec. 12th, part of your overall donation will br brought downtown to supply the needs of the homeless.

Another quick note: The rest of the donations that do not go downtown with the Gallery that Saturday will be distributed to Academia de Caesar Chavez (an elementary school in East St. Paul) and to the Center for Victims of Torture (a non-profit meeting the needs of displaced victims of political torture from around the world). So, overall donations will be distributed according to the needs of each of these three places.

Remember, if you cannot make the worship/prayer event on the 11th, we will be accepting donations at Ekklesiah through Dec. 18th, but preferably we would like to have everything by the 11th. You can swing by and see if someone is home to drop off donations at 243 Bates Ave. St. paul, Mn 55106 and knock on the big double doors on the corner of the building closest to the corner of Bates Ave. and Euclid Ave.

Thank you everyone for your support in this. We have great faith that God is going to move in profound ways in the midst of all of this. Everyone deserves to be warm this Christmas. Lets make sure it happens!

Blessings,
Tony tonyduppong@yahoo.com or 651-442-7328