Covenant to Care Holiday Gift Drive 2024

It’s time to spread some SUM love and holiday cheer! SUM and LLI will be making the holiday season merrier for approximately 110 children in need identified through the Covenant to Care Hartford program. Our liaison, Catherine, at CCC, says the need continues to be greater than ever due to higher costs of goods and services. Catherine shared that the gifts from SUM are often the only presents these children will receive during the holidays. Consequently, there may be more than one tag per child on the tree. The items listed on the tags are requests from the child and/or suggestions from a parent or caseworker. Please feel free to provide similar/substitute items as well as additional items such as art supplies and age-appropriate books and games.  

This year you will be able to select a child to shop for by choosing a tag from the giving tree in Wesley Hall. If you are not able to attend services for the next two weeks but would like to support a child in need, you may request a tag by emailing or calling Melissa Fearrington. If you would like us to shop for you, monetary donations are always welcome and may be mailed to the church office. Please make checks payable to SUM and note “CCC” in the memo. All money collected for CCC goes towards purchases for children.

Please return your gift and the tag no later than noon on Sunday. December 8th (sooner is better!) in a holiday gift bag with folded tissue paper. We ask that you include the tag, as this is how we connect the requests to the correct social worker. Gifts may be returned on Sundays to Wesley Hall, or you can make arrangements with Melissa to drop them off at her home.  

Thank you in advance for your generous holiday spirit and for making a difference for some child this Christmas! 

Peace, love, and joy!

Melissa Fearrington & Sandy Lipscomb