DALLAS PUMPKIN PATCH -- ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH
By BILL CHERRY, Broker & Wealth Coach
(Bill Cherry, Realtor)
Every year, Saint James Episcopal Church on Audelia at McCree, a few blocks north of Northwest Highway, stages its famous Pumpkin Patch. Thousands of fresh pumpkins will be sold. Pumpkins of every size and shape. This is a joint venture between the church and a New Mexico Indian tribe. The Indians plant, grow and harvest the pumpkins, and then they are shipped in two big loads to St. James where they are sold by volunteers. The entire net portion of the sales retained by Saint James goes to fund its youth ministry, which not only includes its Dallas activities, but its missionary trips. The youth director, Doug Horton, advises that enough money is raised by the venture so that the church does not have to subsidize the youth program. In addition to the thousnds of pumpkins that are d...
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