Council Bluffs SDA Church

Our church loves to do Community Outreach!  We have several projects that we participate in during the year.  Our Community Outreach program is called CBSDAC (Council Bluffs SDA Church) which is on our T-shirts!  Keep an eye out for the T-shirts in the community!

 

 

We are busy doing a variety of community service projects.  We do our adopt-a-street 3-4 times a year and will be starting in the spring.  We also volunteer every 4th Saturday at Mohm's Place to serve a meal and visit with the individuals that come in for a meal.  If there is a 5th Saturday, we will volunteer then as well. 

We will be doing our second street cleanup on July 9th at 9am.  If you would like to help, please click the get involved link below and let us know!  It's a great time serving and taking care of what God has given us all!

Are you interested in joining in on the volunteering?  Click the Get Involved button below to let us know and you can join us on any of the activities we are doing!

We are open to ideas for various projects we can do throughout the year.  We love our community and want to show our support and love to everyone!  We are still working on other projects we can do.  If you have any suggestions or want to help, please let us know!  All are welcome!  You can let us know if you want to help or have a suggestion by going to the Get Involved Page.

Look below for all the projects we have so far!

 

We did our last street cleaning of the year on Sunday, September 10th.  We had a nice group show up to help with all the work.  We had a great time cleaning up all the trash along the street, visiting with each other, and great conversations with people we met!  There was even a little time for a bit of soccer!  You can see from the pictures we were a bit goofy at times just having a good time together!  We picked up 20lbs of trash this time but still made sure the street looked it's best!  Check out the pictures of us doing God's work!  Come join us next time!

 

 

We go to Mohm's every 4th Saturday of the month to volunteer passing out meals to those who are homeless and/or low income.  We go if there is a 5th Saturday as well!  It is a great way to do God's work and show His love to others.  We can't take many pictures as we can only have church members so enjoy the one picture we have so far of us filling plates and filling bellies!

 

 

 

We were able to fill 50 Personal Care Dignity bags, hand made by Community Crafters from the YMCA, with various items on August 6th.  We went on August 13th to deliver the bags and volunteer to serve a meal at Mohm's Place, which is located between Timothy House and Joshua House.  We didn't have enough bags for everyone, but we had more than enough bottles of water!  It was great getting to sit down and visit with some of the individuals we met and gave bags to.  We plan on volunteering more often to serve meals!

 

We completed our second cleanup of our adopted street on July 10th.  We had a low turnout due to people dealing with illnesses and other issues.  We were small but mighty!  We still picked up at least 3 bags of trash.  We will do this again this year so when we do, we will put it out there.  Anyone can volunteer to help us!  It doesn't have to be just church members.  It's a great project and fun!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We completed another 712 Initiative project on Sunday, June 27th.  We had a nice turn out for this project.  There were actually two homes we helped with.  One just needed a couple more railing put up around the deck, especially a handrail on some stairs.  The other was across the street and needed a privacy fence put up.  The posts were in but everything else needed done.  Our crew worked hard and completed both projects!  Check out the pictures to see everyone in action and the fence once it was done.  Pictured are the representative from 712 Initiative, Turner Morgan, Shannon Pigsley, Shona Hargens, Laura Hargens, Brad Pigsley, Pastor Tony Jamgochian, Michael Hargens, and Joe LaFave.

 

 

We just finished a drive where we collected various things for the Micah House!  We had a very successful drive and collected a bunch of food, some outerwear, paper products, and even some personal items.  We had enough to fill the back ends of 3 cars!  We had several people show up to help take everything over and deliver it to the Micah House.  So glad we could have an impact!  More to come!

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, December 27th, we fed and shared some hope. Our church family gathered together at the Open-Door Mission to help prepare and serve food to the homeless. While it is true the holiday season is about spending time with family and friends, it is also about giving to others. It was truly an honor and blessing for us to serve our community.  We love to serve our community!

 

 

 

 

We delivered 60 bags filled with all sorts of goodies to CHI Mercy Hospital for the medical staff working with the Covid-19 patients!  The hospital staff were overwhelmed with the bags!  We had a great time collecting donations and filling the bags!  We had bottles of water, reusable cups, k-cups, emergent-C, lip balm, hand lotion, lots of snack bars, cookies, and treats!  The bags were also reusable bags with Bible verses and special wishes on them!  See the pictures in the slide show to see everyone chipping in during the bag filling time we shared!  We had a short devotional afterwards that was very good and a great way to end the Sabbath.  God is great and we pray these bags touch the people who receive them!

 

 

We did a Food drive starting in August to benefit the Community of Christ Food Pantry.  It was a short food drive, but we were able to collect a lot of cans of vegetables, pasta, macaroni and cheese, rice, Pop Tarts, as well as many other things the pantry said they were in need of!  There was even a bag full of what looked like almost brand-new shoes!  It was a variety of shoes, and the bag was found just sitting in a parking lot!  What better thing to do than to give it to an organization that could make sure people who need them could get them!  We will have to do another food drive some time.  We try to do something quarterly to benefit community organization.  We love helping our community!  Check out the pictures!