Special Announcment for ALL branches of the Church of God

Pastor Don · Postby **Pastor Don** » November 18th, 2008, 5:06 pm

First let me say that I am posting this shameless advertisement with the permission of our Benevolent Dictator, Pastor Gary. (Thanks Brother)

The Fields of the Wood is doing a little fund raiser that will go to benefit our Christmas Light Display. The money raised will be designated specifically for that purpose and will not be used for any other purposes. The funds will help us to purchase new decorations and repair some that we all ready have. The more we raise the better and better our Light Display will be each year.

Here is what we are doing.

We are doing Christmas stockings made out of plywood and painted like a stocking. We are asking for a donation of $5.00 dollars per stocking. What we are going to do with them is put your name or what ever name you request and it will also have the abbreviation of the State you are from. It will also be numbered so in the case of more that one person with the same name from the same State your personal stocking can be found.

We are then going to put them on stakes and line the driveway and roadways with them. We have several that have requested that we do one in memory of a loved one and we have set aside the side walk that goes up to the tomb to give the In Memory stocking a "special" place.

We have one local church that requested a copy of the order form and they purchased 38 of them. If you would like to do that with your local church we will also make an "extra" stocking that will have the name of your local church and then all of the orders that you send in with it will be grouped together following the church stocking.

I would be willing to do a Jude 2 stocking if I can get enough response and put all of them together.

You can make your donation one of two ways. If you want to be in the Jude 2 group then you can fill out one of the order forms attached and e-mail it back to me and send the $5.00 dollars to my pay-pal account or mail a check to Fields of the Wood. If you fill out the order form I will trust that you will honor your request and send the money, but as soon as I get the order I will go ahead a put it into production.

my pay-pal account is curity2@hughes.net or the mailing address is FOTW 10000 Highway 294 Murphy, NC 28906

If you do the snail mail please put a note with it stating it was for the Christmas Stockings.

I will add a picture tomorrow of the present stocking already up. By the way, we will put these up every year for at least as long as I am working there. Thank you so much for your response.

God bless

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » November 18th, 2008, 5:22 pm

Question Don....

Will $5 even pay for the plywood, paint, and labor for a stocking?

Pastor Don · Postby **Pastor Don** » November 18th, 2008, 5:30 pm

Thanks for asking brother.

We can get 20 stockings from a single sheet of ply-wood. The paint to paint about 60 of them cost us $40.00. Each sheet of ply-wood is costing us approx $12.00. The first two sheets of ply-wood and the first round of paint I personally donated to get it kicked off. Then we will purchase additional materials from the proceeds.

So yes it will, since I am making the stockings personally during my off time and Sandra and the girls that work in the Gift Shop and Cafe are doing the painting.

Also, we have had some that purchased ONE stocking and gave a donation of $50.00 so that is very much appreciated.

God bless.

pastorables · Postby **pastorables** » November 24th, 2008, 7:27 pm

When would be the best recommended time to visit during the Christmas season to get the full effects of the FOTW displays?

pa

Pastor Don · Postby **Pastor Don** » November 25th, 2008, 1:52 pm

pastorables wrote:When would be the best recommended time to visit during the Christmas season to get the full effects of the FOTW displays?

pa

Brother Ables;
We will have all the lights up and a service to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas Season on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (November 29). We are having a local Southern Gospel group and a lady from the community to sing. Also Sandra will be singing a couple of songs. Brother Allen will be speaking briefly and then we will conclude with the lighting of all the displays.

We plan on having Hot Chocolate, Hot Apple Cider, and hopefully some Christmas snacks available. The service will start at 5:00 pm and should not last more that an hour or so. They plan to have the Gift Shop open after the service for just a short while.

Most of the Stocking that have been ordered are already on display. There has been 155 sold ordered so far and we have 140 of them already up.

There will be a few additions to the display after Saturday but mostly just finishing touches.

Any time after that will be good.

I will say that I have not received any orders from the Jude 2 family as of yet but we will be putting stockings up all the way until Christmas Eve.

Also a word of thanks is in order. There was one husband and wife that ordered individual stockings and they each gave a $50.00 dollar donation for them.

The Tullahoma, TN Church of God of Prophecy has ordered 48 and they are already on display. As soon as I get back from town I have few pictures that I will be adding.

Thanks Brother Ritchie, Love ya Brother.

God bless...