With November’s arrival comes our Season of Giving, a special time each year when Heritage comes together to share, bless and serve others.

At the heart of it all is a simple command: love your neighbor. It’s more than a phrase. It’s a way of living. Loving our neighbor means seeing people, recognizing their needs and being willing to respond. It means turning gratitude into action and compassion into something others can experience.

Our Season of Giving is more than an opportunity to give and serve. It's an opportunity to practice becoming the people Jesus is calling us to be.

It's an opportunity to live out the greatest command: Love God. Love Others.

Second Chances is a Christian ministry called to serve and support individuals struggling with homelessness, addiction and recovery and other difficult transitions. And we've partnered, once again, with them to help provide parts of their Thanksgiving feast for our homeless friends on Sunday, November 22.

• GIVE $5 BILLS
  • While the Thanksgiving meal seeks to nourish belly and soul through a time of food and fellowship, our homeless friends will also be blessed with some practical items. $5 bills are a real need for folks in nomadic lives. These bills are a way to obtain transportation in OKC. Everyone who attends will be blessed with some $5 bills as an aid.
    
    $5 bills may be marked via an envelope in the contribution box in the back of the big room. They may be given to Travis or any one of our shepherds directly. You may also give online thru the button link below.
    
    
• GIVE A HAM
  • Ham will be a part of the feast on 11/22. This meal is more than food, but an opportunity to connect and encourage neighbors who are often forgotten. And like any feast, food is a must! This year, we have committed to providing hams that will be served as part of the feast. Ham, in any size, may be brought to 4900 ON Sunday, November 15. Not before, please, as we will not have the space to refrigerate them. Please sign up through the button for us to adequately plan for this giving.

We hope everyone at Heritage will make plans to join us as we serve a meal and bless our homeless friends through Second Chances!

We will NOT have Bible classes that Sunday. Following worship, we'll head into Oklahoma City to serve together.

This is a wonderful opportunity for our Heritage family to step outside our building, serve alongside one another and share the love of Jesus with our neighbors.

We need everyone to sign up! Whether you've served with Second Chances before or this will be your first time, there's a place for you. Let's show up, serve well and be a blessing to others.

Also, in December The Giving Tree will be placed in the foyer with tags for individuals to purchase Christmas gifts. More details and specifics will be updated as December approaches.

The Giving Tree is an opportunity to directly bless local Edmond children and families with needed Christmas gifts. We are working to once again partner with Heritage Elementary in providing for students in their community.

The first available tags on the Giving Tree will be children from Heritage Elementary. The number of children is TBD. Tags will likely be available beginning Sunday, November 23.

How it works:

• Please do not wrap these gifts
• Please provide wrapping materials (wrapping paper, tape, bows, bags, etc)
• All gifts should be placed into a bag with the tag attached to the outside
• Bag with gifts may be returned to the giving tree in the foyer. Gifts may also be dropped off directly to Heritage Elementary, as well.
• Due date TBD