Serving Opportunities: Response Requested

These emails help inform & inspire us about what's happening at Cypress Street! Thanks for taking a moment to read it. View this email in your browser Flood Relief & Grace Place Serving Opportunities Dear CypressStreetWM, We have a couple of imminent opportunities that have been realized this week. We also have something awesome to celebrate! Please check out the items below and, if you can help with any of it, please reply to this email or to neil@cypressstreet.org.  Thank you so much and have a great week, Pastor Neil We sent out a plea for funds to aid our sister churches in South Louisiana so terribly impacted by the flooding. Did you ever respond!!! We have already put together over $2,500 as a church with more promised, WOW! To put it in perspective, a large out-of-state sister church of over 5,000 members is generously sending $10,000. I'm so proud to be counted amongst the outrageously generous family of God at Cypress Street Church of God! It's true what we say here: We'd rather give than receive any day of the week (and twice on Sunday)! :) Our Church of God State Coordinator and another point of contact in Baton Rouge have both expressed a great need for work teams to travel down to Baton Rouge. This huge natural disaster has simply not garnered the media or government attention that so many lesser disasters have. If you would be interested in the possibility of going down to Baton Rouge with a work team in the next week or two, please let me know. I will be leaving for the Guatemala Missions Trip next week but hope that we can send a team in my absence.  This Monday, the 29th, is our turn to serve at Grace Place! Can you... Bring brownies? (Please place them in the kitchen by Sunday morning. If you can place them in individual bags that would be great but we'll take them either way) Come serve? (Arrival time of about 10:45am) Come prepare? (Come earlier, like 9:30am) Share Tweet Forward Visit Our Website Follow Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter Follow Us on Instagram Copyright © 2016 Cypress Street Church of God, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are a member and/or subscribed to our church emails. Our mailing address is: Cypress Street Church of God 1401 Cypress Street West Monroe, LA 71291 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Flood Relief Offering

These emails help inform & inspire us about what's happening at Cypress Street! Thanks for taking a moment to read it. View this email in your browser South Louisiana Flooding Relief Dear Cypress Street Family, Having been through flooding in our own community on a smaller scale in March, we are quick to feel heartbroken for the southern portions of our state that have been absolutely devastated. Tens of thousands of homes have been lost and our sister churches have not been immune! Here's some of what we know so far: Faith Chapel Church of God in Baton Rouge has 20 families with flood damage to their homes. Chapelwood Church of God in Denham Springs flooded to the roof. They lease their building but lost everything in it. Several members have damage in their homes, too. Christ the King Church in Baton Rouge had two feet of water in their church building along with their pastor's & several members' homes. A few other of our churches have also reported members with flood damage.  Our leadership acted quickly to send an initial $400 from Faith Promise contingency funds to Faith Chapel Church of God. But we don't want to stop there! If you would like to participate in helping our brothers & sisters and their communities recover & rebuild, please designate your donation for "Flood Relief" and our leadership will make sure it all gets dispersed to those who need it so badly. (If you are not able to attend this week, please feel free to send your donation.) Finally, if any of you would be interested in serving on a clean-up team to travel down and physically lend a hand, please let me know. We will do some investigating to see where we might be of service and not in the way of ongoing efforts!  Thank you for your generosity and spirit of unity, Pastor Neil Share Tweet Forward Visit Our Website Follow Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter Follow Us on Instagram Copyright © 2016 Cypress Street Church of God, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are a member and/or subscribed to our church emails. Our mailing address is: Cypress Street Church of God 1401 Cypress Street West Monroe, LA 71291 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences