give of yourselves this Christmas...

each year Bay Shore Camp serves as a collection point for Samaritan's Purse Christmas Shoe Boxes/Operation Christmas Child.

Check out this music video to help promote Veggie Tales New Christmas Movie and a great way to give back this Holiday season. Fill a shoe box and bring it to Bay Shore Camp during the week of,
November 16-22. Mon-Fri open 8:00am-4:30pm and Sat-Sun open 1:00pm-5:00pm.

Merchant in the Valley

Help support the new movie from Ames Church.




www.merchantinthevalley.com

One of many good things that are happening in this city is the "Merchant in the Valley" film project that is coming to the Saginaw Quad Theater on 10/18 and 10/22 at 7 p.m. This movie was filmed in Saginaw using actors from Saginaw. This movie shows the painful realities of temptations of the streets among our youth, but to also give a message of hope encouraging students to believe that they DO have a choice and don't need to go down the same road that their parents, siblings, or friends might be going down. The timing of this film being shown, unfortunately, seems to be more right than ever with some of the recent violence we've endured.

I'm asking you to help support this film in prayer, in marketing, and in buying tickets ($5 each). Also, know that the showing of the movie at the Quad will be extended to more shows if people support it. Please consider supporting it as a way of educating our community, fighting crime through the media, giving them hope, and sharing the Gospel in a secular environment! Thank you.

Jesse Karls
Youth Pastor, Ames UMC, Saginaw, MI. 48602

P.S. - the movie is PG-13 for thematic elements which include drug use and the use of guns in a threatening manner. There is no sex and no obscene language.