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June 12, 2025

in Alleviation of Poverty, Child Welfare, Community Partner, HCC, Local, Outreach, packapack, School Outreach

by cefiggins

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Pack A Pack 2025 Season has begun!

Our Harvester family always looks forward to Pack A Pack season. This is an annual initiative where Harvester Christians intentionally pray over our local school children whose families struggle to purchase all the school supplies required to help their child experience success in the classroom.

This year, we have a goal of 900 packed backpacks. These backpacks will go to the Boys and Girls Clubs of St Charles County, families at schools right in our backyard, as well as our inaugural Good Neighbor Market where local families will come to the church for a storefront experience to “shop” for their child’s school supplies (more to come on this.)

For now, we need Harvester Christians to pray, shop, share, and serve during this initiative. Below is the generic shopping list you can use to buy 1 item, collect a few others from neighbors, or maybe you will choose to fill a whole backpack. You can drop these supplies in the worship lobby on Sundays. Don’t delay, though! Our first delivery of backpacks is Thursday, July 17!

Elementary backpacks

1 sturdy book bag
2 plastic folders with pockets and prongs in different colors
1 pencil box
1 wide ruled notebook
2 glue sticks
1 pack of 24-count crayons
1 scissors
1 pack of 12 markers
10 #2 pencils
1 ruler
1 water bottle

Middle/High School backpacks

1 sturdy book bag
5 plastic folders with pockets and prongs in different colors
1 pencil pouch
3 college-ruled notebooks in different colors
10 #2 pencils
2 three three-ring binders
3 highlighters
10 blue or black in pens
1 ruler
1 pack of colored pencils
1 pack of loose-leaf college ruled paper
1 calculator
1 water bottle

You can also use our Amazon wish list to choose your donated items and have them sent directly to Harvester St Charles.

March 6, 2025

in Community Partner, Food Backpack Program, HCC, Local, Ministry Partner, Outreach, packapack, Safe Families for Children, School Outreach, Serve Teams

by cefiggins

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Is Your Small Group Ready To Serve?

With winter finally melting away and Daylight Savings time just around the corner many of us are also coming back to life! I have heard that many small groups have been on hold since the holidays with the onslaught of rough weather and long weeks of illness. Is your small group coming back to life? Are they starting to talk about how they can serve their community? Here are a few ideas to get them going!

1. The HCC Food Backpack Ministry serves about 100-120 local students every week. Your small group can help these children who experience food insecurity by hosting a food drive. This is an easy way to get neighbors involved near your host home as well. Collect canned ravioli, individual mac n cheese, nut-free snacks such as granola bars, beef jerky, and healthy fruit snacks. Plan a special time to pray over these students and families hit with hard times.

2. In the same vein, on average the HCC Food Pantry provides groceries for 130 clients. Could your small group consider hosting a canned food drive to help keep the pantry shelves stocked?

3. Does your small group enjoy being outdoors? Could they consider weeding and mulching at one of our local schools on a weeknight? Would they enjoy helping to keep the Journey Trails free of weeds and trash?

4. Does your small group have the gift of hospitality? Could they consider hosting one of our teacher appreciation breakfasts or lunches? Could they stock and deliver our WOOT WOOT cart, a snack and drink cart, to one of our local school partners?

5. Does your small group love shopping? Could they consider collecting 24 packed backpacks this summer for Pack A Pack? Could they purchase children’s socks and underwear for HCC Back To School events?

6. Is your small group packed with Prayer Warriors? Could they consider joining our monthly School Outreach Pray and Prep where we pray over local schools, administrators, teachers, and students?

7. Does your small group like to plan and host parties and fun events? Could they consider helping to organize community breakfasts or dinners for our community and ministry partners to come to HCC to be encouraged? Or help plan a teacher appreciation dinner?

8. Does your small group love children? Could they consider becoming a Family Friend or a Host Family with Safe Families for Children?

9. Does your small group have a heart for individuals living with disabilities? Could they consider connecting with our ministry partner Joni & Friends and serving at summer camps or family retreats this summer?

10. Does your small group’s heartbreak for our unhoused neighbors? Could they consider serving at a cooling center this summer or a warming center in the winter?

BONUS option: Does your small group want to serve but is not sure where to start? Consider inviting Carissa Figgins, our local Outreach Pastor to visit your small group and learn more about how your small group can lead others to find and follow Jesus!

Make sure each of your small group members subscribes to this blog and is following the HCC Outreach- St Charles Campus Facebook page to stay up to date on serving opportunities and more!

June 8, 2023

in GiveHope, HCC, Local, Outreach, packapack, School Outreach

by cefiggins

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Easy Peasy Way to Pack A Pack

We get it. We wait and wait for the laidback days of summer only to find the days are packed even more. If you are having a hard time finding time to get to the store to purchase school supplies for the Pack A Pack campaign or maybe the list seems overwhelming to you WE HAVE AN EASY PEASY SOLUTION FOR YOU!

Just follow this link to our Amazon wish list.

Click on whatever items catch your eye and add them to your cart.
Pray that the child or teacher who receives these supplies is blessed and it creates a curiosity for them to find and follow Jesus.
Hit submit and your gift of any amount and any kind of school supply is shipped directly to Harvester Christian.
Then you can think about possibly serving in a way to sort, organize, pack or deliver these items to all the groups we will be serving in July and August!

June 6, 2023

in HCC, Local, Outreach, packapack, Uncategorized

by cefiggins

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July Local Outreach Opportunities

Organization	Opportunity	Date	Time	Purpose	Location	Sign Up
	Journey Trail-July Workday	Saturday July 8	8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.	Repair the bridges and clear the prayer garden and pavillion area through weeding, trimming, limb removal	HCC Journey Trails	Register to serve here
	Pack A Pack School Supply Sorting & Organizing	Starting Monday July 10	Mondays @1p.m. Wednesdays @ 1 p.m. Thursdays @6:30 p.m.	Your help is needed to sort, organize, and pack school supplies	HCC Annex	Register to serve here
	The Sharing Shed June Workday	Saturday July 15	9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.	Sharing Shed Crew specifically needs people phyically able to lift furniture and make deliveries to clients' homes	923 E Terra Ln, O'Fallon, MO 63366	Register to serve here
	Boys & Girls Club-O'Fallon Unit Backpack Delivery	Thursday July 20	3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.	Volunteers needed to load and deliver 250 packed backpacks to Boys & Girls Club-OFallon Unit	HCC Annex to 1 Club Way St. Peters, MO 63376	Register to serve here
	Hot Diggity Dog Express-Boys & Girls Club-O'Fallon Unity	Saturday July 22	10:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.	Assemble and serve 350 hot dog meals at Boys & Girls Club O'Fallon Unit Back to School Bash	1 Club Way St. Peters, MO 63376	Register to serve here
	Pack A Pack Delivery to We Love St. Charles	Monday July 24	3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.	Volunteers needed to pack, load, and deliver school supplies to We Love St. Charles	HCC Annex to 2665 W. Clay St. St. Charles, MO 63301	Register to serve here
	Pack A Pack Delivery to Boys & Girls Club- St. Charles Unit	Thursday July 27	3:00-5:00 p.m.	Volunteers needed to pack, load, and deliver school supplies to Boys & Girls Club St. Charles	HCC Annex to 1221 Lindenwood Ave St. Charles MO 63301	Register to serve here
	Hot Diggity Dog Express Boys & GIrls Club St. Charles Unit	Saturday July 29	10:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.	Assemble and serve 350 hot dog meals at Boys & Girls Club St. Charles Unit Back to School Bash	1221 Lindenwood Ave St. Charles MO 63301	Register to serve here