By Jeanette Sherron
SAN LEANDRO, California--The San Leandro Women's Ministry has been involved in various outreach projects.
Hazel Roberts coordinated a service to Union City's Pregnancy Choices Clinic, a service group that offers alternatives to abortion, along with counseling to women with unwanted pregnancies. The women contributed gifts for an Oct. 8 baby shower to provide items these young mothers will require for their new babies.
Jeanette Sherron headed San Leandro's donation to Operation Christmas Child, sponsored by Samaritan's Purse, an international charity chaired by Franklin Graham that distributes shoebox gifts to impoverished children in various countries. The women had a work party Nov. 12 to assemble 98 gift boxes to go along with those contributed by members from the four Bay Area churches.
A number of churches in the Fremont Tri-Cities area combined efforts in Newark Nov. 11 to provide personnel for the Convoy of Hope, a national program that combines meeting physical and spiritual needs of the impoverished. Five women on the women's ministry team participated in this carnival-type program.
Not only were free groceries and other job and health services distributed to more than 2,700 homeless and low-income families, each family also heard the gospel. A pastoral team from Church of the Fremont Tri-Cities presented the message of hope about Jesus Christ. Nearly 500 people made decisions to involve Jesus in their lives.
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