This year’s Advent Offering will go to the Lunches for Hope Program in the Dassa-Zoume region of Benin, Africa. The funds will be used by former West End member Hilarion Vegba who worshipped and studied with us when he was enrolled in a program at Vanderbilt. He had a great idea to provide a daily lunch to the 30 girls enrolled in the program. These thirty girls will receive lunch five days a week for nine months of school.  Before this program, girls without this lunch money asked for the money from men who took advantage of their situation.  West End funded this program last year and there was a dramatic decrease in girls dropping out of school, early pregnancy and trafficking. Our goal is $5400 which will fully fund lunches for one year.   You can give online by marking the “Other” and writing in “Advent Special Offering” or by check with “Advent Special Offering” in the memo line.