For over 20 years you have donated baby items to Angel’s Baby Closet in the Neonatal ICU of Waukesha Memorial Hospital. In 14 years, you have handmade over 300 quilts for local nonprofits and recently sent some to Ukraine. You provide books for children at the Big Yellow House and Family Promise, hats, scarves, mittens, socks, and underwear to the Hope Center, toilet paper, laundry detergent, garbage bags, and other necessities to Hebron House, and canned food and gift cards to The Women’s Center. Several times per year, you make meals for people who eat at the Hope Center, as well as for Family Promise. Plus, you have now partnered with Ricardo and his Mami Feliz food truck to regularly provide meals for families at the Waukesha Overflow Shelter.

Along with our youth, you participate in the Cancer Walk, pack food boxes for the United Way and Hunger Task Force, do yard work through St. Vincent De Paul, and were Salvation Army bell ringers. Through Baking Buddies and Friendship Ministries, you provide the opportunity for people who live with disabilities to bake, have fun, and learn about God’s love. Through the Together in Peace prayer vigil, you gave church and community members an opportunity to heal.

You also participate in all the UCC’s Special Offerings – One Great Hour of Sharing, Strengthen the Church, Neighbors in Need, and The Christmas Fund – which change the lives of our retired UCC ministers, and people in our UCC churches, the U.S., and all over the world.

Just think of the thousands upon thousands of lives you have changed for the better.

Plus, you care for each other through the Andrew Club, Angel’s Express meals, the Giving Tree, Off Our Rockers, Men’s Breakfast, and the countless ways you connect and check in with each other.

Through all these things and those I forgot to mention, you are indeed salt of the earth and light to the world, embodying Christian discipleship through Jesus’ call to love God, neighbor, and self.

Because of YOU, our church changes lives.