PUT YOUR LOVE INTO ACTION!
 

The Jiminez family ready to serve the chocolate raspberry crumb bars Julie (r) baked for Chocolate Fest 2011 at St. Patrick's, Dublin.  Behind: celebrity judges Linda Kick of Our CupCakery and Mike Cotton of Graeter's deciding prizes after tasting.

As needs continue rising and other funding sources are cutting back in Ohio, your donations help sustain the vital aid provided by local churches, funding food, shelter, rent and utility assistance, tutoring, and career coaching throughout Southern Ohio. All contributions are tax-deductible. 

 

 Scroll down for our online donation form or mail a check to ECSF at 412 Sycamore Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202, specifying whether you’d like your donation to be put into the annual fund or Bishop Blanchard Fund.

 

Gifts to ECSF’s annual fund are used 100% for grants to local community ministry.

 

Gifts to ECSF’s Blanchard Fund power tools for ministry: workshops, news of need and effective responses, and free planning help for local churches and non-profits.
 

Think Chocolate!

It's time to dream of tasting heaven! ECSF's Chocolate Fest will be at Trinity, Newark on Saturday, April 21 from 2-4 pm.  The proceeds of this Eastertide Chocolate Fest nourish ECSF community ministry grants to churches. Here are the ways you can help:

• have your business sponsor our online auction and earn goodwill by weeks of visibility to bidders throughout Southern Ohio

• donate retail and restaurant gift cards and other great auction items

• compete in our chocolate bake-off with celebrity chocolatier judges!

• invite friends to attend with you!  Tickets are just $10.

To find out more, contact ECSF's Ariel Miller at ECSF@eos.net or

513-221-0547.
 

How much would you like to contribute?

  Annual Fund       Blanchard Fund

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If you’d like your donation to honor someone, tell us: In honor of   In memory of    

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Make this a Gift of the Spirit for Christmas, birthday or other important event! We are glad to include a gift card including a vignette illustrating the impact of the donation in honor of the person you designate.  The choice of gifts is listed below.
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  Beloved Miracle Fish card

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  Colorful card with ministry pictures

To whom should we send the card about this gift?    You    or to  Name  

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Message you want inscribed on the card
 

   SHELTER: $100 prevents eviction or keeps the heat on

  RESTORE: $50 provides a month's prescription

  NOURISH: $25 provides a week's groceries for a family of four

  EQUIP: $10 provides a week's GED tutoring