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 Old Macedonia Church donates to Tree of Hope web posted December 19, 2009  COUNTY LINE – Joe
Mosley (Left) and Derrick
Jones (Right), part of the Men’s Ministry of Old Macedonia Baptist
Church, were
busy Friday morning loading Christmas presents donated by members of
the church as a part of the Tree of Hope project. Mr. Jones said this
is the eighth year the church has been involved, and from looking at
the results, they were very involved.Mr. Mosley said each child is listed by a number and placed on the tree like ornaments. That ornament includes the list of items that child has asked to receive for Christmas. “Once you take that child, you commit to purchase all the gifts,” Mr. Mosley said, adding that sometimes people will join together to complete a list. “Otherwise, a lot of these kids wouldn’t have anything for Christmas.”  Mr. Jones said the
presents, all listed by numbers of the respective
child whose identity is unknown, were being taken to the North Augusta
Middle School Gym as the center collection point. “From there the
agency will redistribute the gifts to the children,” Jones said. “The
area they cover is Aiken and Edgefield Counties.”The members of Old Macedonia, lead by Pastor Limuer Myers, obviously will have warmed the hearts of many this Christmas by their generosity. When the door to the large room was opened, the room was filled with groups of packages, bicycles, and toys with only a small walkway through the gifts.  Last month the Men’s
Ministry, with the aid of a grant from Wal-Mart,
was able to purchase 137 turkeys and then collected the associated food
items through donations to finish out the Thanksgiving boxes.
Each had the makings of a complete Thanksgiving dinner. © Copyright 2009
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