Loving Stuart, and beyond.

Every year, our church family cooks, churns, bakes, and gathers to raise support for missions — here in Patrick County and around the world. Come for the ice cream. Stay for the people.

Four gatherings, one purpose.

These aren't fundraisers so much as they're our favorite days of the year. Everyone's welcome — you don't have to be a member to show up hungry.

Strawberry Festival

Downtown Stuart fills up with crafts, live music, and food — and our tractor sits right in the middle of it, churning fresh strawberry ice cream all day long. Served with homemade cake, the way it should be.

Apple Dumpling Festival

Founded right here at our church and now a town institution. Downtown fills with food trucks, artisan crafts, live music, and everything apple — with our booth at the center of it all, serving tractor-churned vanilla ice cream and our famous apple dumplings.

Fair warning: we sell out in a couple of hours, every single year.

The Lord's Acre

Churches from across the area come together for a day of worship and service, held indoors at the Rotary Building. There's a church service, craft booths, home-cooked food, and more pies than you can count.

The heart of it is the silent auction — a harvest table piled with canned goods, garden crops, and put-up preserves that folks bring in and bid on. It's an old tradition, and it's the reason this one runs deep. Everything raised supports local missions right here in Patrick County.

Christmas Bazaar

Held the same day as the Stuart Christmas Parade, and it keeps growing — it now fills our entire basement: the library, the nursery, and the fellowship hall. It's the go-to spot in town for wreaths, figurines, and tree and outdoor decorations.

Stay for chili and soup, and browse a display of hundreds of sweet treats — cookies, pies, cakes, you name it.

This is what it's for.

The money raised at these gatherings doesn't stay with us — it goes out. To neighbors here in Patrick County, and to missionaries carrying the gospel far beyond Stuart.

Come volunteer, come eat, or give online. However you show up, you're part of it.