Now you can support our ministry and programs while you shop! We are using iGIVE, which will donate a small portion of your transaction at many businesses back to us each time you make a purchase. Participating businesses include Kohl’s, Macy’s, The Gap, Old Navy, and many, many more.
This is a easy (and painless!) way to support our ministry. You can create a free account to get started at iGIVE.com. Sign up today!
Our Father’s Family Keeper Ministries was honored to receive a generous donation from Masonic Lodge 290 of Vandalia, Michigan on Monday, September 11, 2023. The $500 contribution was from the Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation in recognition of several of our programs, including The Village Free Store, Lakeside Day fellowships, The Village 4-H club, and The Village Community Garden. It’s so wonderful to have the support of our community! Thank you, thank you to the Masonic Lodge!
Remember that we welcome donations of all sizes to help us fund our programs. Please reach out if you feel moved to support our nonprofit work!
This you cannot miss: Wax Museums about the Underground Railroad in Cass County and about an 1847 Kentucky slave raid, coming in early June 2018.
The Wax Museums will be held June 6 and June 13 at the Bonine House, on M-60 and Penn Road, in Vandalia, The Bonine House is thought to have been a place where those escaping slavery were “sheltered” as they sought freedom, according to the Underground Railroad Society of Cass County.
The Wax Museum events are:
* June 6, from 10:15 to 11:30 a.m.
* June 13, 10:30 a.m.t 12 noon
At both events, historical characters and event ‘come to life.’
At the June 6th event, fourth-graders from Mrs. Riggins and Mrs. Bonine’s classes at Portage’s Lake Center Elementary School will perform.
Students from Cassopolis High School present the June 13th event, “The 1847 Kentucky Slave Raid.” The raid occurred in August 1847, when 13 slave catchers from Kentucky came to Cass County to find “investments” they’d heard might be living among the Quakers there. Slaverunners Wright Modlin and William Holman Jones had been visiting Bourbon County, in Kentucky, returning with enslaved people.
There will be three performances on the half hour. Guests are invited to tour The Bonine House while they wait.
For more information, contact The Bonine House at 269.320.8532; learn more about the Bonine House at https://www.urscc.org/the-bonine-house.html.
NILES ~ The NSG Group of Niles is hiring, and Our Father’s Family Keeper Ministries will help provide transportation to new hires who do not have transportation.
NSG Group is seeking temp to full hires, on 2nd and 3rd shifts, and claims “great pay” and a site bonus. The company is looking to hire production associates and experienced fork-lift operators.
The company also runs a Ride Share Program.
For a limited time, OFFKM will also help provide transportation to and from work.
For more information, go to www.SSS.jobs; those interested can also apply at 2121 W. Chicago Road, in Niles, Michigan, and call the company at 269.687.2113.
We here at Our Father’s Family Keeper Ministries want to wish you a very happy Merry Christmas and Happy New Year — inviting you to remember ‘He Is the Reason” for the season!
~ For one of their Service Learning Projects, students in this summer’s program planted flowers that they presented to shoppers leaving a local grocery store. Click here for more photos!