Sunday May 29 will bring together the West Linn and Beavercreek locations of Northwest Contexture Congregations for a “Big Serve” day, a yearly event that replaces regular church services with an outreach project. This is its year for Big Serve day.
The project is to help a local West Linn family of six, whose husband and father is serving in Iraq.
“I like to say that on Big Serve days, we don’t ‘have’ a church service, we ‘do’ a church service,” said Rusty Massey <cq> the lead site pastor for the West Linn Northwest Contexture congregation. “We normally work from about 10 a.m. to noon.” The other Contexture Church congregation is located in Beavercreek.
They chose a military family due to the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.
“We felt it was appropriate to serve a local family whose husband is deployed in
Iraq,” Massey explained. “Our project that morning will be to transform this woman’s backyard from a mud pit to a useable yard that the kids and dogs can play in.”
Work will include tilling, digging a trench to reroute a down spout, bark over parts of the yard that are too shaded to grow grass, and putting in fence slats. “It is incredible the transformation that happens,” said Massey.
In addition, church members are throwing a block party, serving hamburgers for the neighbors.
For more information, contact Massey at: rnmassey@mac.com or visit the church website http://www.nwcontexture.org
Originally published in the orint edition of the SW Weekly section of The Oregonian on Saturday May 21, 20111
http://blog.oregonlive.com/westlinn/2011/05/northwest_contexture_congregat.html
