You're invited to the Fallen Hero Tree of Honor ceremony on Monday Nov. 17th at 5:30pm at the Central Illinois Regional Airport. The event is sponsored by Americasgoldstarfamilies.org  America’s Gold Star Families | Honoring Our Fallen Heroes and the Sgt. Anthony R Maddox Memorial. Help us provide Honor, Hope, and Healing for our Gold Star Families who have lost a family member who died while serving on active duty. Community support is needed to hang over 500 fallen hero ornaments.

Thank you for your contributions to the Big Give: a community partnership with Home Sweet Home Mission and the Midwest Food Bank, with a goal of feeding 2,000 families for Thanksgiving. Although we are a small church, we were able to contribute enough shelf stable items to feed 14 families.

Mount Zion Christian Church will be making and delivering Thanksgiving food baskets to families in our local community. If you or someone you know could use some extra help this Thanksgiving, please let us know. We'd love to help. Click the "Thanksgiving Food Baskets" card on the app or this link to complete the request form.  https://mtzioncc.churchtrac.com/card/87

If you would like to donate non-perishable items to create the Thanksgiving baskets, a list of suggested items is listed below. All donated items for the baskets should be dropped off at the church by Sunday, November 23. Please be sure to check that non-perishable items are not expired, rusted, or leaking. All items must have labels. Mt. Zion will provide gift certificates for our families to purchase the meat of their choice. Thank you for your support. 

Please feel free to contribute the following items: 

 • Canned vegetables – corn, green beans, carrots, yams, mixed veggies, etc. 

• Canned fruit – peaches, pears, pineapple, applesauce, fruit cocktail, etc. 

• Macaroni & cheese, spaghetti or pasta, pasta sauce, etc. 

• Mashed potatoes mix • Rice – white or brown (1lb. bag only) 

• Canned soup (chicken noodle, tomato, vegetable, chicken broth, etc.) 

• Stuffing mix 

• Gravy mix, dry soup mix 

• Cranberry sauce or Jelly 

• Cornbread/muffin mix 

• Dessert mix (cake mix, brownies, cookie mix, frosting, icing, etc.)

• Jello or pudding dry mix 

• Condiments (ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, salad dressing) 

• Beverages (water, juice boxes, Kool aid mix or boxes, tea, etc.)

 Cereal, oatmeal, granola/breakfast bars, pops tarts, etc

We have been invited to attend the packing party at:

Cross Pointe Church of God 

3101 Airport Road, Bloomington 

If you didn’t have a chance to shop, donations to help cover the $10.00 per box shipping fee would be greatly appreciated. 

Mount Zion will adopt a family for Christmas. If you or someone you know is in need of help, please let us know by clicking the "Adopt a Family Card on the app or this link: https://mtzioncc.churchtrac.com/card/117 Nominations close on Nov. 23, 2025.

Happy birthday to: Raya Bernandez, Christine Komnick, Frances Maddox and Bryson Mintz.

Happy Anniversary to Jerome and Frances Maddox.