In September the Sisterhood of Tryon First Baptist Church began to collect bookbags to donate to Outreach Ministry for its project of sending food home with Polk County school children to needy families on weekends.

The collection goal is 350 bookbags by July 2009 so each of 350 children can carry their food for the weekend home in a bookbag.  Shown above are three TFB Sisters:  Di Greene, Marian Corn and Linda Fincher.

The children of Tryon First Baptist Church collected lotions and shampoos at Vacation Bible School for the girls who are residents at Blanton Cottage.  Tryon First Baptist Church has been sponsoring Blanton Cottage girls for almost three years.

Shown in the picture are Kay Greene of TFBC Sisterhood and Evelyn Bradley of the church who recently took the boxes of items to the Broyhill Baptist Children's Home in Clyde, NC.  Blanton Cottage houses up to ten girls ranging in age from elementary school through high school.  Blanton is one of several cottages on the Broyhill campus in the western part of North Carolina.

The NC Mission Initiative was held in Rutherford County the last weekend

in October.  About 500 people from all over North Carolina

participated.  Forty-five people from Tryon First Baptist Church worked

in different areas including renovation of bathrooms, putting on roofs

and leading in a children's festival which reached about 200 children on

Saturday, October 25.  Frances and Joe Wray and John Spinks led our

church in this mission effort.    Pictures are of one of the

construction teams lead by Tim Jackson.  Others on the "team" were

Phil Corn, Bob Lair, Gary Nobles, Kevin Blackwell and Judy Lair.  A rotten

roof on a 10 X 16 ft. porch attached to a trailer was torn down and a

new roof was built in about six hours.