Mission and Community Concerns Committee

The Pilgrim Association Mission and Community Concerns Committee Announces an

Annual Meeting

Ark Campaign

to Fund a Heifer Project

World Ark

June, 2008—June 2009

The Halifax Congregational Church (UCC) will be celebrating its two-hundredth seventy-fifth anniversary next year, and they have offered to host our Pilgrim Association Annual Meeting to coincide with their birthday celebration. The Rev. Joseph Wadsworth, their pastor and member of the Pilgrim Association Missions committee, has proposed that beginning with this year’s annual meeting, and continuing throughout all of the following year, each church in the Association be challenged to host fund raising projects to fill an “Ark” (maybe more!) for the Heifer Project. An Ark is a complete set of Heifer animals, set at about $5,000.

Here's how it works: Each church will raise the money in its own way and send the proceeds to Heifer. Note on the chekc or cover letter that this is from your church and is to go towards the Pilgrim Association Fill the Ark Campaign. They will note it both ways and at the end of the year, when we gather at Halifax for our Annual Meeting and the Halifax birthday, we will total our numbers and celebrate the success of our united effort!

Here are what some of the animals in the "ark" will cost:

$500 2 COWS

$120 2 SHEEP

$425 2 CAMELS

$750 2 OXEN

$250 2 WTR BUFFALO

$120 2 PIGS

$30 2 BEE HIVES

$120 2 GOATS

$ 75 2 DONKEY

$20–Trio 2 Trio of Ducks

$10-Trio 2 Trio of Rabbits

$20-flock (15-20=flock) 2 Flock of Geese

$20- flock (15-20 = flock) 2 Flock of Chicks

$150 2 Llamas

$320 2 YAK or MULES

The World ARK designated value = $5,000

For more information, contact the Pilgrim Association Mission and Community Concerns Committee, C/o Joseph Wadsworth (781) 293-6393