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KIDServe and Mercy Children’s Clinic @ Celebrate Children’s Fair

admin_tgn_dms — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:00:59 +0000

For our KIDServe project for April, we partnered with Mercy Children’s Clinic (www.mercytn.org) to run their booth at the Celebrate Children’s Fair, which is sponsored by the Williamson County Child Advocacy Center, to kick-off Child Abuse Prevention Week.

We served with Mercy by providing some fun kid-friendly activities and prizes for the children of the community attending the fair. Our kids and families had a great time running the booth, handing our prizes and T-shirts and helping to raise awareness for Mercy Children’s Clinic whose mission is to “reflect the love and compassion of Jesus Christ by providing health care services to ALL children and support to their families.”

KIDServe @ Second Harvest Food Bank

admin_tgn_dms — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:25:00 +0000

Our March, 2011 KIDServe opportunity was in partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank.

We served at Family Sort Night and helped sort, weigh, and bag over 10,000 oranges into boxes that will be shipped to hungry families in 46 counties throughout Middle Tennessee. Our kids also collected and donated 68 lbs. of food to the Disaster Relief and Kids Backpack Programs.

KIDServe is an on-going community service project that partners with various non-profit agencies throughout Middle Tennessee. Get connected at KIDServe today with your kids or as a mentor to another child of Kids Gathering!

Kids Gathering Change 4 Change Winter 2010 Service Project

admin_tgn_dms — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:21:40 +0000

The Winter Change 4 Change service project goal was to stuff 120 stockings for the men of the Nashville Rescue Mission.

Our kids worked hard to raise funds, educate others about the Rescue Mission and stuff the stockings.

The men at the Nashville Rescue Mission received their Christmas stockings filled with various items such as gloves, candy, granola bars, fruit and other goodies with tears in their eyes and a huge “Thank You” to our kids!

Kids Gathering Change 4 Change Fall 2010 Service Project

admin_tgn_dms — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:53:47 +0000

Our Kids’ Change 4 Change service chose Samaritan’s Purse Mosquito Nets as their incentive for Fall 2010. When our Kids heard that Malaria kills over a million people each year, most of them children under age 5, they decided they wanted to help. They learned that for every $10 they raised, they could provide a bed net treated with natural insecticide to kill mosquitoes and keep children and their families safe and healthy. Our Kids raised over $360 dollars in spare change which will provide 36 nets for families around the globe!

Change 4 Change is an on-going service project, facilitated by our Kids, to teach them service, empathy and how to show the love of Christ to others in our community and around the world. Our Kids choose an organization that benefits children and families and collects spare change to make a monetary contribution. Donations are collected each Sunday at the Change 4 Change table in the main lobby.

Students Gather @ SuperStart in Louisville

admin_tgn_dms — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:10:56 +0000

On November 12-13, 2010, students and leaders from The Gathering traveled to Louisville, KY for an action packed weekend at Superstart, a preteen conference sponsored by Christ In Youth.

Superstart provides a safe and fun environment for our students to learn and grow in their relationships with their friends, our leaders, and most importantly, with God.

Throughout the weekend, our preteens encountered Christ through high-energy worship, interactive teaching, and small groups while focusing on the theme “Be Strong and Courageous” based on Joshua 1:9.

Pics from Big Stuf 2010

admin_tgn_dms — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:37:03 +0000

See them here.

Change 4 Change

admin_tgn_dms — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:50:42 +0000

During the summer of 2010, Kids Gathering’s Change 4 Change service project collected spare change to benefit Eleanor’s House, an orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS in Zambia, Africa. This facility houses 100 children, most of them under two years of age.

When our Kids learned about Eleanor’s House and heard that the cost of formula is high for the staff and the orphanage, they decided they wanted to raise money for milk and formula for the children and babies. By the end of the summer, our Kids raised over $700.00 in spare change!

Change 4 Change is an on-going project, facilitated by our Kids, to teach them service, empathy and how to show the love of Christ to others in our community and our world. Our Kids choose an organization which benefits children and families by collecting spare change. Donations are collected each Sunday at the Change 4 Change table in the main lobby.

Gathering Kids Pics, 2007

admin_tgn_dms — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:33:06 +0000

Here are some pictures taken by Susan Walker in 2007, some of The Gathering Kids.