Missions Committee

The Missions Committee is a committee of the Session and is composed of a chairperson, a Session representative and members from the congregation at large.

The Missions Committee is responsible for overseeing the local and international mission programs of the church and for assuring that the church's contributions are expeditiously and effectively distributed. It also sponsors hands-on mission programs such as food drives, Novi Emergency Food Program, Novi Youth Assistance, clothing drives, homeless ministries (soup kitchen), and fund raising for the aforementioned programs.

Summer Mission Trip 2008

A team from our congregation is currently being assembled to once again visit and assist the Ogalala Lakota Indian tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation in south Dakota. The trip is planned for the week of June 16. If you are interested in participating in this unique and moving experience, please contact Mike Everett or Jim Ernst no later than Sunday, March 30. Please continue to pray for our Lakota sisters and brothers.

Soup Kitchen

Are you interested ina bit of local mission work? On the second, third and fifth Wednesdays of each month at 9:30 am, members of Faith Community travel to the First Presbyterian Soup Kitchen to prepare lunch for hundreds of less fortunate.

Help CROP Stop Hunger!

The 20^th Annual Novi-Northvile CROP Walk for hunger relief takes place on Sunday, October 7, 2007. This event joins churches in our community to raise money for the hunger relief efforts of Church World Service, the mission arm of the National Council of Churches. Like last year, the six mile Walk starts and ends at the Novi Civic Center on Ten Mile. Last year, our Walk raised $17, 000 for hunger relief programs around the world. Twenty-five percent of those funds stayed in our community to support Northville Civic Concern, Active Faith of South Lyon, and First Step Shelter in Canton. Walker sponsor sheets and further details will be available in the narthex in the Narthex. Help is also needed with registration and break stations. Please contact Tom Anan at 248-347-2457 for more information. Please continue to pray for those suffering from hunger in our world and the work of Church World Services.

The Faith Community Fun Run is back! Please mark you calendar and join both 5K runners/joggers and one-mile fun runners/walkers in our third year of having this family event. For some of the "new" people, this was an event that started back in June 1982. It took a siesta for a few years, but with the help of our Faith Community congregational members and volunteers from the local Novi Tracker Running club, it has grown each year

We are always looking for volunteers to assist with registering the runners that morning and help out on our 5 kilometer race course. This year's event is scheduled for Saturday August 18; the 1 Mile Fun Run will start at 8:30 AM, and the 5K Race will start at 9:00 AM. If you have or are an organization that would like to volunteer please contact us. Below is a short list of tasks where we can always use help.

Pre-Race Set-up help

You would arrive early to help set up tables and chairs for registration. Assist in the registration of entrants' for both the 5K race & 1MFR. Help set up of the Start/Finish banner for beginning of events.

Course Marshals

Be at designated locations or street corners to direct runners and monitor or act as traffic guard. Call out the split times for runners at the 1 and 2 mile marks. Help out getting the cones/mile markers out on race course that morning. Take tables, cups, supplies and hand out water to runners at designated spots on the course.

Post race

Assist with giving out 5K awards and raffle prizes. Help put away tables, banner and clean up church.

In previous years we had lots of raffle prizes and every runner got one. Coupons for free pizzas, subs, bowling, movie tickets, dinners/lunch at local restaurants, Detroit Piston nostalgia, ticket to Detroit tigers, etc. If you would like to make a donation please let us know.

The proceeds from this event are being donated to the Novi Youth Assistance program.

Please download the race application and spread the word. If you need further information contact Michael Everett at: 248-478-0982 or by email: everett.msbcglobal.net.

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Fun Runnin'

Samantha Everett (right) won the 1 mile fun run in 2004.

Novi Emergency Food Program

Church members distribute groceries to needy families every second Monday. We will be making special monthly collections of items for the food bank. Any donations can be put in the blue box in the narthex marked: Food Bank. Thank you.