Your generosity toward the Way Cool Potluck has been overwhelming!

Dishes are coming in for the Way Cool Potluck to serve the homeless on Christmas day. The generosity of the community on this project has been overwhelming! We now have commitments for all turkeys, hams, side dishes, and desserts needed for this Way Cool feast! Folks who still want to pitch in with us are more than welcome to bring two-liter soft drinks, rolls and breads, or breakfast foods. On Christmas morning we will serve a holiday breakfast starting with eggs to order, and ending with pancakes, biscuits and gravy, fruit, and more. We can use some additional packages of bacon, sausage links, and pancake syrup for the Christmas breakfast.

If you'd still like to know another way you can really help us, please visit http://www.waysidechristianmission.org/donate.htm and give whatever you can give through our secure Paypal donation button. In keeping our homeless warm, our LG&E bill for December alone is $25,697.94. We welcome any donations toward relieving this extraordinary expense.

Christmas week is always such an amazing one here at the Mission! God's love is manifested through the work of volunteers and the generosity of so many donors. Groups and families who have sponsored homeless families have been bringing their gifts in all day, getting ready for the traditional Christmas Eve Santa Party for the shelters. Yesterday, University of Louisville Hospital's business office brought in bags of socks, toiletries and even sleeping bags for the homeless men. Many other groups have brought in needed hats, gloves, scarves and Blanket Louisville brought 125 blankets to the Mission.

Miracle on Market Street, the Mission's free Christmas Shop, has operated all week, supplying over 6,000 individuals with toys, gloves and hats, household items, and food for the holiday. Through the generosity of UPS, each food basket contained a canned ham this year. Hundreds of volunteers have given of their time to escort parents while shopping, wrap their gifts, and to restock the store. Carol Cook has volunteered her time and efforts for several years now to coordinate and operate the Miracle on Market Street, making sure that homeless and needy families have a bright holiday.

With the help of many groups in the community, the families, men, and women in our shelter have enjoyed a week full of blessings! Iroquois Presbyterian Church held their traditional Christmas party for the men in the shelter this week. The children have been treated to parties by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Highland Baptist Church, Graceland Baptist Church, New Hope Lifeline Ministries, and Radcliff Church of God. Truly the Love of God has been shared and their holidays are bright ones, even in the midst of a homeless shelter! I thank God daily for those helping us do God's work!

God Bless you all! May your holidays be safe, happy and blessed!

Rev. Tim Moseley