FirewoKs Sale Benefits Church KEZI <br />ICE ZI <br />• Home, • News • Weather • Sports • Video <br />• reens ace <br />« NC kal UO's Sanctions <br />0 <br />6/11114 8:39 AM <br />ISearch Search <br />Group Raising Funds for UCC Observatory. > <br />Fireworks Sale Benefits Church <br />• Local News, <br />• News <br />by Sarah Hurwitz <br />Published June 25, 2013 <br />GENE, Ore. - A local church says the Fourth of July is helping to <br />keep the church doors open. That's because it's selling fireworks to keep funding going. <br />For the past 20 years, Crossfire Ministries has been selling fireworks for the Fourth of July. Those funds go <br />directly toward its outreach programs, which the pastor says would be much harder to run if they didn't sell <br />fireworks each season. <br />"Do multiple feedings and help clothe people and help people get through recovery. And we have all those <br />different ministries and outreaches both here and internationally. It makes it really tough to do that without <br />some way of funding that," said Aaron Taylor, Crossfire Ministries Pastor. <br />The church has seven fireworks stands in the Eugene-Springfield area, which are run by church volunteers and <br />http:J/www.kezi.co~ii/firewori~-sa{e-benefits-Chwil'/ Faye 1 of 5 <br />