Hot dogs, drinks, chips and popcorn will be sold to benefit Samaritan Relief, an OCIM ministry that feeds needy families and also provides emergency financial assistance. There will be clowns, balloons and children s activities, and there also will be a serious moment or two. Moments when people long associated with OCIM will take the microphone and talk about what the ministry has meant to them and to the community. Catharine Callaway, owner of a downtown jewelry shop and a member of the OCIM planning committee, has designed a 20th anniversary tree logo that will be on the T- shirts sold at the big ol picnic. Freeland predicts it will be a collector s item and plans to print 500.
People are very nice.
I m so grateful. I do get teary thinking about what we do and about our community. We re not just church folks. Look at the businesses who are supporting us. A thrift shop fashion show earlier in the year kicked off the 20th anniversary celebrations, and two more events are tentatively lined up for the rest of the year.