Michigan—We thank our Lord, Jesus, for the desire He gave us to reach out to our neighbors and our community more intentionally. With love's motivation, Vassar Church members participated in the Tuscola Country Fair and the Vassar Riverfest with a health promotion booth.

By doing so, we were blessed to meet many people and talk with them about their health concerns. Their positive response allowed us to provide them with hundreds of valuable health resources including pamphlets, books, and DVDs. In addition, a cooking class and two Stop Smoking clinics were scheduled to provide support for approximately 60 people who expressed a need.

While serving the community at the fair, we were blessed by fellow Christians from another denomination in Vassar. They expressed their joy to see us helping to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the community and encouraged us to join them and all the churches in the community at the Riverfest every year in a united front for God.

We took that as an affirming message from God to be more accessible and available. Too often, we have been invisible and hidden. Our recent fair experience was so positive that we are now encouraged to allow our light to shine bright into all the world.

We look forward to next year’s fair when we will again set up our health promotion booth for the love and glory of God! The end? Not so—the beginning!

Carrie Klaus, Vassar Church personal ministries leader