Once again City Light sent the message to our kids:
School is important and we want you ready to do your very best!
Our Ninth Annual Back -to-School BLOWOUT was our best one ever (of course I say that every year )! Over 120 students signed up for shoes and we filled every order, thanks to the help of so many of you who donated a pair of new sneakers for school. Thanks to you, many of our students will go to their first day of the new school year with brand-new shoes and with every step, they will be reminded that someone cared about them! Special thanks to those from Spring Valley Church, West Wyomissing Chapel, Pennsylvania Dialysis, Adult Ministry at City Light & Our Readers!
The BLOWOUT was a bit different this year. We combined it with our Sunday Morning Worship Service. We combined both Northside and Southside, adults and kids alike, and had well over 220 in attendance. With our emphasis on family ministry, we were pleased to meet many parents for the first time! During the service our Adult Worship Team rocked the house, then the City Light Children’s Choir blew the doors off the place! At the end of the service, all of the shoes were distributed and the kids participated in several carnival games where they won prizes – school supplies. We made sure everyone was a winner and the kids left loaded down with the essentials: pens, pencils, notebooks, erasers, glue, rulers, crayons, scissors, THE WORKS!
But this is just the beginning: soon our after-school programs, along with the rest of our Fall programs will be underway! THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THIS MINISTRY! You truly are God’s hand extended to the City of Reading!
-Pastor Joe
