{"id":29337,"date":"2022-10-22T14:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T18:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=29337"},"modified":"2024-10-09T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T18:39:06","slug":"2022-christmas-marketplace-prepares-to-open-11-12-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=29337","title":{"rendered":"2022 Christmas Marketplace Ready to Open (11\/12\/22)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This post was used to announce the 2022<\/span>\u00a0Christmas Marketplace. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

For details about this<\/span> year’s Marketplace, please refer to the “Event Announcements” in the right hand sidebar.<\/span><\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n

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People all over the world are living in poverty.\u00a0 There are shortages of food, medicine, housing, and water.\u00a0 So we’ve decided to do something about it.\u00a0 By supporting efforts such as UMCOR<\/a><\/span> (The United Methodist Committee on Relief) and other global and local organizations who are making a difference, PUMC’s annual “Christmas Marketplace” has been helping to provide water, food, and relief to thousands of people across the globe.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This year’s Marketplace will be held on November 12, 2022.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Christmas Marketplace….<\/span><\/h3>\n

The effort continues.\u00a0 The Christmas Marketplace provides a venue where crafters can sell their wares to \"\"raise money which helps fight world poverty.\u00a0 It’s not a yardsale.\u00a0 Everything exhibited and sold in the Marketplace is handmade and original.\u00a0 The Marketplace offers all varieties of craft items: knitted items such as blankets, prayer shawls, and cancer hats, quilted blankets, wooden crafts, baked goods, and even floral arrangements.\u00a0 It’s a cross between a craft show and a marketplace.<\/p>\n

And, more importantly, the Marketplace is a way to harness our creative talent to fight poverty.<\/p>\n

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2022 Christmas Marketplace<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

WHAT<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 A exhibition and sale of craft items to fight world poverty<\/span><\/p>\n

WHEN<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 Saturday Nov. 12, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

TIMES<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM<\/span><\/p>\n

WHERE<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 PUMC Fellowship Hall<\/span><\/p>\n

COST<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Free to attend, $40 to rent exhibitor space<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

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Turning Crafts into Love…<\/span><\/h3>\n

So you want to help people.\u00a0 You feel the call to be a witness for Jesus Christ, to love your neighbor as yourself, to do good “unto the least of these”.\u00a0 How can you take on these huge tasks all by yourself?\u00a0 Can your efforts make any difference?\u00a0 \u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n

The answers:\u00a0 You CAN’T<\/strong><\/em> take the huge tasks on all by yourself, and yes- your efforts CAN<\/em> <\/strong>make a difference!<\/p>\n

Whether you come to the Marketplace as an exhibitor or customer, you can contribute to the effort to share the Gospel and to alleviate suffering.\u00a0 \u00a0Things like digging wells, piping water, providing health care, protecting children, nurturing youth all take money.\u00a0 We may not have a lot of money, but we do have talent.\u00a0 We can’t write big checks, but we can make little things.\u00a0 The Marketplace is a way to convert those talents into money which can in turn be used to make a difference in the world.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the talents that will be brought to the Marketplace; things that will be sold:<\/p>\n