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            |  To the editor: Harvest of 
			Talents for World Hunger celebrated the 37th Harvest with grateful 
			hearts for God’s faithfulness!
 Though most Harvest events were cancelled this year, due to Covid-19 
			restrictions, Harvest wasn’t cancelled! Technology talents, terrific 
			teamwork, and many prayers helped reimagine hosting opportunities to 
			enable helping with hunger relief.
 
 Various Harvest activities went online, and you signed on. We 
			launched ‘Harvest from Home’, and you responded. Our familiar H.o.T. 
			soup and breakfast rolls were offered with prepaid orders, and you 
			ordered. We had an outdoor gourmet dessert tent, and you came. You 
			rounded up your checks for your online shop orders, said ‘keep the 
			change’, came back with a donation, and turned in lots and lots of 
			coins in your blue IDES fish banks. Assisted-living residents took 
			up offerings, shop-owners gave a portion of sales for a featured 
			item, and children made and sold custom bracelets. We received 
			donations of handmade items and monetary gifts from across the 
			nation, and Harvest came full circle with handcrafts donated from 
			the mission field.
 
			
			 
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            With hunger needs greater than ever before in our 
			Harvest history, your gifts of time, talents, prayers, and resources 
			have been a very rich Blessing. You did not grow weary of doing 
			good, and God has blessed us beyond what we hoped or even imagined.
			
 On behalf of the Harvest Ministry Team and those who will receive 
			the 388,527 meals you have provided in Jesus’ name through the 2020 
			Harvest offering of $116,558 ~ (Total for 37 years: $2,557,054.66) 
			THANK YOU SO MUCH!
 
 In the midst of all that’s been going on, you responded to hunger 
			needs and helped make this a record year when we least expected it!
 
 Harvest Blessings,
 
 Carolyn Neal
 Chairperson, Harvest Ministry Team
 Lincoln Christian Church
 Lincoln IL
 [Posted 
            
			oCTOBER 29, 
			2020]
             
            
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