Sterling Park Food Pantry

Hi friends!

This Saturday we are having our monthly food distribution from 9am to 10:15am.

Please pray that God would grant repentance and faith in Christ to our clients as they hear the good news through us.

Hi friends,

This Saturday we will be having our third food distribution of the year from 9am to 10:15am.

Please continue to pray for our clients and for us as we work to reach our community with the gospel of grace!

Sterling Park Baptist Church » Mercy Ministries

Information for our food pantry is now also available in Spanish! Check it out here:

http://www.sterlingparkbc.org/mercy-ministries

sterlingparkbc.org Located in our church's facility, our food pantry is open for distribution on the third Saturday morning of every month from 9 AM through 10:15 AM . The food is distributed after a brief worship service in Spanish.

Sterling Park Baptist Church » Mercy Ministries

We are excited to announce that this Saturday, January 18th, will be our first distribution of 2014! We appreciate your prayers for gospel fruit from our interactions with clients!

As usual, the distribution will take place at Sterling Park Baptist Church, from 9 a.m. through 11 a.m.

For more information, check out our church's website: http://www.sterlingparkbc.org/mercy-ministries

sterlingparkbc.org Located in our church's facility, our food pantry is open for distribution on the third Saturday morning of every month. The food is distributed after a brief worship service in Spanish.

We need people to help kids with crafts at our Christmas evangelistic service on December 8th! Message us or e-mail [email protected] if you can help!!

Pray for the gospel preached at this weekend's food distribution to bear fruit!

We are collecting coats to benefit low-income students of Sully Elementary School this month!! Please drop them by 501 N. York Road, Sterling if you want to contribute.

We are collecting new or gently used coats for adults and local elementary students this fall! Drop off donations at 501 N. York Road, Sterling. Message us for more info!

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Have new or gently used coats you can donate to low-income adults or elementary students? Drop them off at 501 N. York Road, Sterling!

Be merciful to those who doubt.

~ Jude 1:22

Thanks to all who participated in our game night at the homeless shelter Thursday! Pray the people we met would come to know Christ. Here is our sister Judith Hayes and James modeling one of that hats she made for shelter residents.

Want to reach out to local youth with the gospel by helping with Bible studies and games?! E-mail [email protected].

We are doing another game night at the Reston homeless shelter October 10. Pray for opportunities to show Christ to these people and message us if you are interested in joining!

The most recent homeless shelter game night!

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Friends, we can really use diapers of any size for our pantry distribution! They are in very high demand among the people we help. To give, drop them off at our pantry. Our next distribution is September 21.

The church is an initial point of contact for the kingdom of God,
as God’s people are interspersed amidst humanity. We do not
plead with others from long distance; we plead with them up close
and personally...We are sent to serve and build relationships with others to share the truths of the gospel with them. This is the nature of God’s kingdom.

~ Ed Stetzer in Finish the Mission

DeShong's Gift Back, Inc.

Healthy, fruitful plants cover our garden at Guilford Baptist Church. We've produced hundreds of pounds of vegetables for area food pantries so far. God has blessed.

E-mail [email protected] if you want to support us or volunteer!

DeShong's Gift Back

We are excited to partner with DeShong's Gift Back this year to plant our community garden!

http://www.deshongsgiftback.org/

deshongsgiftback.org Our Mission DeShong’s Gift Back is a charitable nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization based on the premise of sharing gifts given to us to better the lives of those in need....

“Only the church can minister to the whole person. Only the gospel understands that sin has ruined us both individually and socially. Only Christians, armed with the Word and Spirit, planning and working to spread the kingdom and righteousness of Christ, can transform a broken heart as well as a neighborhood.”

~Tim Keller

How Do You Counsel Non-Christians? | Christian Counseling & Education Foundation

"We want people to see that the gospel directly engages the parts of their lives that matter most to them." What happens when someone learns to acknowledge shame, guilt, wounds, wickedness, weakness, or loneliness? That person becomes more open to hear about and more ready to embrace a Shepherd who laid down his life so his sheep could have glorious, forgiven, painless, shameless, eternal life with him as part of his family."

~Alasdair Groves

http://www.ccef.org/jbc/how-do-you-counsel-non-christians

ccef.org Since 1968, the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation has set the pace in biblical counseling. We teach people how to explore the wisdom and depth of the Bible and apply its grace-centered message to the problems of daily living. Simply put our mission is to: Restore Christ to Counseling a...

May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us (Selah), that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations

- Psalm 67:1-2

Community Expresses Its Holiday Spirit

We are thankful to be part of this community!

http://ashburn.patch.com/blog_posts/community-expresses-its-holiday-spirit#photo-12503148

ashburn.patch.com “The kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed; nor will they say, ‘look, here it is!’ or ‘there it is!’ for in fact, the kingdom of God is among you.” - Luke 17: 20-21

Great time of fellowship and sharing Christ on Thanksgiving with our low-income friends at the Francisco's home. Praying for their hearts to be greatly softened towards the gospel of Christ.

Where one of our clients is spending her nights alone for the time being. We're thankful the support that allows us to feed her and tell her about Christ.

"God has dealt so graciously to us because He has been so kind and unbelievably merciful to us, and we want to make it known to others. So we treat others with grace and mercy...aggressively because we want to win them to Christ. We want to show them the kind of love that God has shown to us."

- Mark Dever (John 1 sermon)

Fun game night and birthday celebration at the homeless shelter this week! Please pray for the people we hung out to come to know Jesus as Savior.

Great help from Potomac Baptist Church youth group at the food pantry and community garden yesterday! Thanks guys!

Game night at the homeless shelter in Reston on Monday (October 15)! E-mail [email protected] for more details if you want to help us reach out to our homeless friends.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our afflictions, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Cor. 1:3-4

Happy September (and almost Fall)!

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A Refugee Story

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First food pantry distribution in Herndon today! Gave away lots of veggies from the community garden. Several day laborers heard the gospel. Pray they would come back to hear more.