Dinner to kickoff 12th annual festival and sale tomorrow night
When Anna Myrl Long used to see commercials calling people to help sponsor starving children across the world, she would shout, "Okay how can I help them?"
Now the long-time Upland resident says she feels like she really is helping them.
Long belongs to the Mennonite Central Committee, along with her husband Stan Long.
The couple, who also own Long's Christian Bookstore in Rancho Cucamonga, has been
involved in the organizing of the Southern California Festival and Sale for the past twelve years.
A dinner will be held Friday evening to promote the festival scheduled for May 15 and 16 at Pacific Christian Center.
"I always use three words to describe it, it's promotion, fellowship and inspiration," said Stan Long.
The festival is not until May 15 and 16, but the committee wanted to get as many people involved as they can.
"It's proven that advanced promotion really helps bring people in," Long said. "We had 200 people registered and those people will go back to their homes or churches and share."
The Mennonite Central Committee was formed in 1920 to be the relief, development and peace committee of the Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches.
Antiques, household items and handmade quilts are auctioned off the weekend of the festival.
There will also be food booths with homemade food, a classic car display and farmers market with fruit, plants and honey.
A miniature auction will be held during the dinner in the spirit of the festival and sale auctions set to take place.
A Penny Power coin bank allowed children to drop pennies into a machine to eventually go toward the Mennonite Central Committee's Waterworks Project 2009. The group will be building irrigation pumps, drilling wells and installing latrines in Bolivia.
All proceeds of the festival and sale go toward world hunger and disaster relief.
In the twelve years the sale has been in Southern California $614,826 has been contributed to the committee.
"You get some personal satisfaction knowing you were involved with helping other people," said Ray Stump, committee member and previous owner of Upland Feed and Fuel in Downtown Upland.
Ken Becker, executive director of the Pacific Christian Center in Upland, has given his time to festivals and sales in Kansas, Oregon, Bakersfield and Upland.
"When you get together with people in like mind and faith you feel at home," Becker said. "For us involved it's very fulfilling."
For more information on the sale call (909) 758-0133.
The dinner will be held at the Upland Brethren in Christ Church Fellowship hall at 6 p.m. Friday.
Now the long-time Upland resident says she feels like she really is helping them.
Long belongs to the Mennonite Central Committee, along with her husband Stan Long.
The couple, who also own Long's Christian Bookstore in Rancho Cucamonga, has been
involved in the organizing of the Southern California Festival and Sale for the past twelve years.
A dinner will be held Friday evening to promote the festival scheduled for May 15 and 16 at Pacific Christian Center.
"I always use three words to describe it, it's promotion, fellowship and inspiration," said Stan Long.
The festival is not until May 15 and 16, but the committee wanted to get as many people involved as they can.
"It's proven that advanced promotion really helps bring people in," Long said. "We had 200 people registered and those people will go back to their homes or churches and share."
The Mennonite Central Committee was formed in 1920 to be the relief, development and peace committee of the Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Churches.
Antiques, household items and handmade quilts are auctioned off the weekend of the festival.
There will also be food booths with homemade food, a classic car display and farmers market with fruit, plants and honey.
A miniature auction will be held during the dinner in the spirit of the festival and sale auctions set to take place.
A Penny Power coin bank allowed children to drop pennies into a machine to eventually go toward the Mennonite Central Committee's Waterworks Project 2009. The group will be building irrigation pumps, drilling wells and installing latrines in Bolivia.
All proceeds of the festival and sale go toward world hunger and disaster relief.
In the twelve years the sale has been in Southern California $614,826 has been contributed to the committee.
"You get some personal satisfaction knowing you were involved with helping other people," said Ray Stump, committee member and previous owner of Upland Feed and Fuel in Downtown Upland.
Ken Becker, executive director of the Pacific Christian Center in Upland, has given his time to festivals and sales in Kansas, Oregon, Bakersfield and Upland.
"When you get together with people in like mind and faith you feel at home," Becker said. "For us involved it's very fulfilling."
For more information on the sale call (909) 758-0133.
The dinner will be held at the Upland Brethren in Christ Church Fellowship hall at 6 p.m. Friday.
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