Heather really has a compassion for people and a passion for helping people in need. A few years ago, she had an idea for an outreach for our church. In 2007, she started "iMPACT with Backpacks". It would have been enough to just gather backpacks and school supplies and pass them out, but she envisioned more. She thought a party to go along with it would allow us more time with the families and would offer the kids a great time of fun and love. Each year has gotten better as she fine-tunes the event and we learn from past events. This year our 3rd annual event involved a pizza lunch, a mini-concert, a short testimony, the demo team from Livvi's martial arts club, and a visit from the Kona Ice truck. There were about 140 backpacks picked up yesterday (at least 50 more yet to be picked up). 53 of the 70 families we were helping showed up at the party and had a great time! We were even fortunate enough to have a reporter from Channel 9 News (a great guy who attends our church) do a little story which aired last night.
Local Church Makes 'Impact' With Backpacks - Cincinnati breaking news, weather radar, traffic from 9News | Channel 9 WCPO.com
Congratulations, Heather! Another job well done! Love you!
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I'm sorry we missed it. I was out of town and Jason was skydiving and hosting a bachelor party for Eric. I just watched the news clip and it was fantastic! It looked so fun, so well done. I would be proud to show it to anyone and say "that's my church!" Tell Heather "Great Job!" and she did a great job in front of the camera, where I would've totally frozen and stuttered. I thought she communicated the purpose wonderfully, and she also looked so pretty. Love you guys!
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