C.A.R.E. (Cards Are Really Encouraging) is a ministry designed for those in our church body who need encouragement.  A small card can make a big difference!

Our goal is to be an encouragement to everyone at HARP when it is needed. If you know someone who would benefit from a card, please email names to chblackm1@yahoo.com or call 704-992-1858 and leave your message.

There is also a C.A.R.E. box in the Fellowship Hall where names, cards, and stamp donations may be dropped off. Questions?

Contact April Blackmon at the email address or phone number listed above.

Have you ever wondered where we get all those yummy pasteries and cookies for our Sunday Morning Fellowship time? Panera Bread donates (or dough-nates) all the bread remaining at the end of every evening to local charities.

Each Saturday night a team from Huntersville ARP picks up the bread at closing time and brings it to the church for the Fellowship Snack Team to prepare the following morning. After Worship, a representative from Huntersville United Methodist Church picks up the loaves of bread, bagels, and other baked goods for the Huntersville Food Pantry, so Each Saturday’s Dough-nation reaps a double blessing!

Huntersville ARP Church supports the Mooresville Community Pregnancy Center – a non-profit, inter-denominational ministry that seeks to serve Jesus Christ through ministering to those touched by possible crisis pregnancy, including the woman and her unborn child, by providing emotional and material support, as well as the personal knowledge of the grace and love of the Living Lord. They provide peer counseling, education, and support services using staff, trained volunteers and lay counselors, with the assistance of individuals and churches within the community.

Each year they sponsor a program called the Baby Bottle Boomerang, where they send bottles to local churches and organizations to fill with spare change. In 2009 they raised over $34,000 and they look to match that this year in 2010.

May we continue to bless them with our spare change as they share the love of Christ to women who are in need of His love.

If you have any questions about the ministry, you may contact Michael or Krista Krueger. You may also contact the ministry directly to see how you can help.

Lo children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. – Psalms 27:3

The church Audio Ministry is one whose work is often behind the scenes. The audio technician sits above and behind the congregation away from the normal thrall of the people. They are usually the first to arrive and one of the last to leave. They make possible the amplification of the spoken word so the Word of God can be heard throughout the sanctuary and to the nursery rooms. They help the hard-of-hearing participate in worship through the use of Assisted listening devices. After the service they create audio CDs for the homebound and those who missed the last Sunday Service and create the podcasts that can be listened to on the HARP website or subscribed to via podcast. They are an extension to the ministry of the minister as the Word of God goes out to the congregation, and to the world, as our sermons are listened to from all corners of the world, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Austrailia, the Phillipines, Romania, India, South Africa, and Kazakhstan.

If you would like to assist in the Audio ministry, be it the Sound System, the Website, or CD ministry, contact Wayne Brown or Anthony Navarro for more information.

The Abundant Blessings club takes advantage of grocery coupons combined with store sales to buy groceries for church families, church events, and outside ministries for little or no money!

“They will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness.” Psalm 145:7

How can you join the club? here are a few ways:

1. We need coupons! These inserts are found in the Sunday Charlotte Observer. Please bring in and donate yours or perhaps buy an additional newspaper specifically for the ministry. Place these inserts in the designated “Coupons” box in the Fellowship Hall on Sunday morning.
2. Clip! After the morning service of worship, join us for a few minutes to cut specific coupons from these inserts. These coupons, along with special saving opportunities that stores are offering that week will allow us to get these grocery items for next to nothing, or free!
3. Shop! Take the coupons along with our specific store instructions to purchase the items some time during the week, perhaps with your regular grocery shopping.
4. Gather! Bring the items back to church to store in our specially designated Club Cabinet (TBA)
5. Distribute! Working with the deacons and/or the Christian Concerns Committee, the groceries can go to the church, our own church families in need, and local community ministries.

Ready to sign up or want more information? Please contact Karin Stevens or Amy VanderWall.