The 2010 Youth for Christ Banquet was held on Friday, November 21st at Spoon River College’s new Macomb Community Outreach Center on East Jackson from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m with a little over 200 attending. We enjoyed a new facility with easy access and ample parking. HyVee catered a wonderful meal of roast beef, pork loin, tossed salad, potatoes, green beans and assorted fruit pies.
Financially, our banquet raised over $10,000 for YFC programming and additional $160 to go directly to supplying bibles to students. We also added many new names to our mailing list, new prayer supporters and even some new regular financial supporters!!
We had 34 baskets this year which raised over $2600 for YFC. We’d like to thank all the basket donors!! There were some beautiful and creative baskets this year, as always! Also, a big thank you to Derek Hammond for putting together a video of former YFC students.
The video can be viewed on youtube (at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-MNgbsuv60) and includes Sarah Kuras, Lindsay Hess Luecht, Justin Ensinger, Derek Hammond and Hillary Erdmann Fosdyck. Be sure to check it out. After the video was shown, Tye Adair reflected on the Impact of YFC in the Macomb and Bushnell youth. Lauren and Todd also shared about current YFC happenings. We even heard from some Macomb YFC students and some Bushnell YFC volunteers.
Another BIG Thank You to Shepherd's Gate Foursquare Church Praise Band for providing the music this year. We had a stage packed with incredible musicians and vocalists!!
Finally thank you to all the corporate and individual underwriters, table hosts, our basket committtee (Kelly Barsi, Vicki Reimolds & Kay McCance) and the CL & CL-M student volunteers (so great to see teens cheerfully serving), and so many others that helped to put together this year’s event.
