Harvest Bash benefits Harvest House

Harvest House Executive Director Gary Tatu gives a tour of the baby ministry wing during Harvest Bash at Harvest House, an overnight youth event held on Oct. 26. Harvest House benefits disadvantaged families in Western New York.

Youths from several area churches took part in "Harvest Bash for Harvest House" to help local families.

The group, 66 youths and their advisers, raised $1,187.20 in loose change at the Niagara Frontier Conference Lutheran Youth Organization's Harvest Bash at the Harvest House overnight youth event in Buffalo on Oct. 26.

The funds raised, including a portion of the total matched by the Erie County Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, will go to further Harvest House's ministries in education, health care and clothing for disadvantaged families and babies in the Buffalo area.

The NFCLYO is a youth ministry program of the Upstate New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, serving 52 churches in Western New York.

The following Lutheran churches participated: St. John's and Trinity in Akron; Town Line in Alden; Holy Trinity, North Park and Resurrection in Buffalo; Zion in Clarence Center; St. Paul's in Eggertsville; St. Timothy in Grand Island; St. Nicodemus in Marilla; First Trinity in Tonawanda; and St. John's in West Seneca. St. Albert the Great Roman Catholic Church in North Tonawanda also participated.