Liquid Church of NJ Plans Four-County Community Service Campaign During Thanksgiving Season

700+ Volunteers Will Work Through November 14-15 So Families In Need Can Be Served By Social Service Agencies Thanksgiving Week

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Nov 10, 2014, 06:02 ET

MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J., Nov. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This next weekend, Liquid Church of New Jersey is mobilizing over 700 volunteers and leaders to pitch-in on service projects helping families in need across the state. The four-county effort has been in the planning since August by local volunteer coordinators in each community. The service out campaign aims to complete all projects in time so that the service agencies involved can serve their disadvantaged clients during Thanksgiving week.

The non-denominational Christian Church which meets at four locations across NJ is partnering with five social service agencies in Essex, Middlesex, Morris and Union Counties. Plans include intensive community service projects to be completed during a single weekend ahead of Thanksgiving. Some plans include 24-hour shifts of volunteer work. Over $90,000 has been committed to resources needed to complete all of the projects this month. The results will allow the partner agencies to help impact hundreds of families in time for Thanksgiving this year.

"It humbling to see the hundreds and hundreds of people within our church stepping up to support the amazing organizations we are partnering with this Thanksgiving season," noted Tim Lucas, lead pastor of Liquid Church.

"Jesus' model of love reminds us we need to go the distance so that every child and family in our own communities should feel loved, especially during the upcoming holiday season," said Lucas.

Essex County // Special Needs Fall Festival // November 15
Volunteers will host and facilitate the Fall Festival in Nutley, NJ to serve the community of families with children with special needs. Children with Asperger's, autism and other special needs will be treated to a day of family portraits, children's games and programs in a nurturing, safe and loving environment.

Middlesex County // Skills Training Center Renovation // November 14-15
During the 24-hour extreme makeover event, Liquid Church is renovating the Elijah's Promise Culinary School, a skills training program for homeless and rehabilitation program participants. Elijah's Promise uses food as a tool to change lives through their food pantry and culinary school.

Morris County // The Abigail House at Family Promise // November 14-15
Volunteers will renovate one of Family Promise's transitional homes over the weekend for families facing homelessness in Morris County.

Union County // Food Bank Prep for Thanksgiving // November 15
In Mountainside Liquid Church is partnering with the Community Food Bank of NJ to sort, stock and help prepare for families in need this Thanksgiving.

Union County // St. Clare's Home for Children // November 15
Hundreds of volunteers will give the facility a facelift by painting the children's bedrooms, play areas and basement where foster, adoption and family meetings take place.

ABOUT LIQUID CHURCH
Liquid Church is one of NJ's fastest-growing Christian churches. Founded in 2001 by Lead Pastor Tim Lucas, the church's vision is to "take church to the people" with campuses in Morristown, Mountainside New Brunswick, and Nutley. Nearly 3,500 people experience Liquid Church's worship services each weekend in New Jersey and around the globe through Church Online. As a part of its global outreach Liquid provides clean drinking water to the poorest of the poor with dozens of completed projects in Central African Republic, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Details available at: http://www.LiquidChurch.com