On Sunday, December 14, 2-4pm, St. George’s United Church is hosting a Christmas “Cookie Walk” to benefit L’Arche, a local non-profit in the Valley that has provided services for people with diverse abilities and disabilities since 1993.
Attendees will pay just $15 cash for a box to fill with 15 cookies—mixing and matching—along the “walk” along tables filled 100+ dozen homemade goodies in the fellowship hall. Cookies are available—first come, first served. The fundraiser is only able to accept cash.
Also in the fellowship hall that day, there will be a Gingerbread House silent auction and a mini Christmas market offering a variety of gifts to make Christmas shopping easy.
The Cookie Walk, which has been hosted by St. George’s for four years, raised more than $3500 for Habitat for Humanity’s 1375 Project—contributing significantly to purchasing front doors and other necessities for homes being built in that project. Since that local Habitat project is complete, the committee of volunteers selected L’Arche for their fundraising efforts.
L’Arche Comox Valley is fundraising for The Anchorage, an affordable housing project in the Comox Valley that is currently under construction and will create up to 15 new suites and social space for people with diverse abilities.
Located in the heart of downtown Courtenay at 505 6th Street, St. George’s United Church is a spiritually vibrant, inclusive, justice-seeking community of faith that has been changing lives in the Comox Valley for over a century. Its vision is to be a Christian Church that is a beacon of God’s love and hope in the community, doing so through unconditional welcome, spiritual transformation, and reaching out in love for the common good.
The regular Sunday service is at 10:30 am, followed by a coffee social in the fellowship hall.
Families with young children are very welcome. St. George’s has a diverse group of more than 20 young children who participate in the Children’s Church while their parents and grandparents remain in the main service.
www.stgeorgesunited.com.
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St. George's United Church, 6th Street, Courtenay, BC, Canada
