The final gift from Asbury’s 2025 Christmas Eve offering to the Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank was $26,392. Thank you for your generosity and for supporting the work of the food bank’s vital work to care for our community through this offering!
ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS EVE OFFERING AT ASBURY CHURCH
Each year, Asbury Church donates the offering collected on Christmas Eve to a mission partner. The following is a list of recent recipients:
2024: Awa Translation of the Old Testament (missionaries Kevin and Kathy Bruce) ($16,993.00)
2023: Mobility Worldwide ($16,426)
2022: Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania ($23,543.11)
2021: Afghan Refugees (Split between UMCOR and Bethany Christian Services) ($19,187)
2020: Salem Food Pantry (over $17,000)
2019: Healthy Women, Healthy Liberia (Dr. Chris Hena) (50% of the offering, $5,301)
2018: Youth P.E.A.C.E. Ministries (50% of the offering, $6,151)
2017: Through These Hands (60% of the offering, $6,867.00)