Giving

Each week, The Potpourri House and the Ellsworth Family are asked to donate ten to twenty gift cards to local nonprofit organizations. In 2010, we want to focus our giving to build up two specific ministries– while supporting your local nonprofit at the same time.

As a family doing business, we desire to make an effective and significant impact with all of our giving, both here in Tyler/East Texas and abroad.

In response to that desire, we ask you to make a donation to one or both of these two groups.  We will then double the amount of your donation with a Potpourri House Gift Card to the non-profit organization you represent (up to $200.)

Your organization may not be able to write the check but anyone can do so on behalf of your non-profit. Not only will you be supporting a worthy cause, you will be giving even greater value to your own non-profit group at the same time! It has been fun to see the response to this challenge already.

Bethesda Health Clinic

Health care has become a major political and economic issue in this country. It has been wonderful to come along side a ministry that is doing something proactive about health care– with a kingdom focus.  Some staff, customers and friends, customers of The Potpourri House look to Bethesda Clinic for their own medical care.

• Provides health care for the working uninsured of Smith County, Texas.
• Relieves some of the burden on local hospitals’ Emergency Rooms
• Lives out the biblical and historical commission of the church to care for the sick.
• Professional, dignified environment with state-of-the-art medical facility
• Electronic medical record access in every room, allowing volunteer physicians to pull up all relevant patient records instantaneously.
• Powered by over 180 volunteer doctors, 140 volunteer nurses and 250 others
• More about Bethesda Health Clinic

L’Arcada Christian Camp

In 1980, The Potpourri House was established by Carol & Les Ellsworth, Sr. who had moved to Tyler to work with a young camping ministry — Pine Cove Christian Camp.  Our family appreciates the power of a Christ-centered camp experience first-hand, so we want to help people in Spain have this same experience.  Please join us in helping L’Aracada Christian Camp, Madrid, mature into a solid camping ministry to the people of Spain.  The country is less than 1% Evangelical Christian and there is a great resistance to the Church as an institution in Spain.  Christian Camping is a very effective, albeit non-traditional, way to reach people for the Lord.

• Located in the Pyrenees Mountains northeast of Madrid, Spain.
• Forms solid families, through recreational education, who will contribute positively to the society of Spain.
• Values and principles shared at camp are based on the Bible.
• Offers sports camps, adventure camps, conferences, retreats, educational programs, and family retreats.
• More about L’Arcada Christian Camp.

To Make Your Gift, contact

Les Ellsworth
(903) 592-4171
Email Les