Welcome to MPC Connected! With our church family separated, we will be communicating with you throughout the week in a more intentional way, including emails from Max and Jeff, opportunities to serve others, and more. Enjoy!
MPC Family,
Each Wednesday during our quarantine, we'll be presenting different ways for you to serve your church family and your community during this season. Last week, you did a GREAT job providing drawings for Fair Acres - we are compiling them and sending them in to our contact there, who was very excited to hear about what you did! Thank you!
Serving our MPC Family
As a reminder, one of the best things you can do for the church family is to continue to pray for one another and check in with one another. Here is a link to our church directory (password protected, if you need the password ask us at mpcadminteam@gmail.com) - consider reaching out to one person a day either by call or text to check in on them.
Our deacons have been checking in with many people in the more "at-risk" categories - but if you have any needs during this season (someone to shop for you, etc.) - please reply to this email and do NOT hesitate to let us know. Our desire is that anyone at greater risk would be able to stay home completely while the rest of us help with any necessities.
Serving our Community
One of our elders, Erik Michael, works in fundraising for the American Red Cross. They are anticipating a substantial need for blood donations in the weeks to come. The disease experts foresee our crisis potentially peaking in mid-to-late April. This will be a critical time for hospitals to be well supplied with blood.
If you are in the most at-risk groups for COVID-19 (over 60 and/or underlying health conditions), we encourage you to stay home. However, if you are not in this group, the Red Cross is taking substantial precautions to ensure that blood drives do not become a means of spreading the virus. You can read more about their precautions and search for an appointment here: https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/coronavirus--covid-19--and-blood-donation.html
If you have additional questions, feel free to reach out to Erik at erik.d.michael@gmail.com.
Thank you for considering this means of serving the community during this critical time!
Though we are separated during this unique season, we want you to know we are available. We will be doing our best to stay in touch in many ways, but if you need prayer or just need someone to talk to, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. You can always send a prayer request to Donna (mpcadminteam@gmail.com). You can also email or call Max or Jeff or any of our elders. Max's email is mbenfer@meadowcroftchurch.org and his phone # is 484-886-7726. Jeff's email is jeff@meadowcroftchurch.org and his phone number is 540-818-6215.