Celebrate Church thanksgiving offering donation
In November, our ministry partner Celebrate Church chose PvilleYI as the recipient of a special Thanksgiving offering. They collectively blessed us with $16,894.86!
We are so incredibly grateful for the support Celebrate has given us and continues to give us, not only in financial support but in prayer and encouragement. THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this amazing Thanksgiving Offering! We are praying blessings and abundance over you!
16,040 Meals Distributed: Summer 2022
This Summer, we helped distribute 16,040 meals to Pleasantville Kids and Teens! A total of 4,010 Bags were passed out, each containing two breakfasts and two lunches. Knoxville Food Youth Initiative has worked so hard to meet Pleasantville’s requested numbers, and we were so blessed to work with them to get those meals into the hands of our community members. They serve not only Pleasantville, but Knoxville, Melcher, and more!
Teens and kids showed up with parents to pick up their meals. They also came on their own, pulling wagons or riding their bicycles. We loved serving them and getting to say hello every Monday Wednesday and Friday.
Over the summer, we had many incredible volunteers who helped us! We would like to give a special shout-out to teens Reagan Murray and Adoniah Koenig who were present almost every day that we distributed meals. Also to the many little ones who came along with their moms or grandmas to help out!
A HUGE thanks goes to Pleasantville’s St. Paul United Methodist Church for the use of their facility, and for the women who volunteered each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Their hard work, hospitality, and joyful presence reminded us so much of Jesus, who they love and serve.
And we can’t forget to say thank you to our dear friend Jim Brees, who delivered the meals and took care of much of the heavy lifting every single day. Selfless, helpful, and generous, we looked forward to hearing his big booming “hello!” each time he arrived. His arms were always full of boxes and coolers, or popsicles he brought for the children who were helping.
We love our community. We were so happy to help serve them this summer!
Over $7,000 Raised At Silent Auction
On April 30th, 2022, PvilleYI hosted a Silent Auction fundraiser with guest speaker Van Harden. We had a great turn out and raised $7,440 to help fund our work over the next year in Pleasantville!
We are so thankful for all the hard work that our volunteers put into the event. We appreciated especially the help of our volunteer musicians, Mike Fust and his daughter Grace Fust, as well as our guest “amateur” auctioneer Mark Core.
And of course, we were more than honored to hear the kind and supportive words that Van Harden had to share about our work here! We were so encouraged by his stories and his daily prayer, “Tell me. Send me. Show me.”
We would like to say THANK YOU to all of the individuals and organizations who donated goods to our silent auction fundraiser. THANK YOU for helping us raise over $7,000 for our work here in Pleasantville! We are GRATEFUL!
Jerry & Pandia Bender
Paul Gordon
Midwest Wheel
Iowa Pork Producers
Iowa State Fair
Skip Jackson
The Galvin House
Minnesota Vikings
Green Bay Packers
Rubish to Rubies
Stubbs Propane
Angel Bingham with Young Living
Knoxville Aviation
Fireside Winery
Shivers Farms
Rejuvenate Rx
Iowa State University
Pleasantville Girl Scouts
Radiant Candle
Barb Pettyjohn
Brett Campbell
The West Place
Brian & Jerri Vestal with ABO Research
Sams Club
Oskaloosa Axe Club
Carly Hodson with Pampered Chef
Peoples Bank
Nancy Kelderman with Avon
Permanent Cosmetics
Lou Lane Soap Co
Michael & Jacque Moats
Tournament Tackle
Lakefront Living
Covenant Construction Services
Smokey Row
Iowa Cubs
Gilcrest Jewitt
Angie Hulsebus with Mary Kay
Kelsey Sutter
Mary Hampton
Elrod Timber
National Sprint Car Hall of Fame
Justin and Stephanie Fehrer
Strawhat Farms
Checkerboard
Belzer Equipment
Margie Mix
Ky's Custom Woodworking & Restoration
Stringtown Seed Shop
Iowa Wild