SJ July 2017 Outreach Project - Collecting Items for The Laurel Center
Our Outreach for the month of July is in support of The Laurel Center; Intervention for Domestic and Sexual Violence (formerly the Shelter for Abused Women). The Laurel Center provides support for women and children by serving as family advocates, offering hope and courage, strength and resilience, to families of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. They let the women and children know they are not alone and that help is available. Please join us in helping the Laurel Center provide care and support to these families by donating household products, clothing, food, drinks, bus tickets, or gift cards. Your kind support is much appreciated. Please see Melissa Seward with any questions.
Update: Thanks to the generosity of our church family, much needed donations of sheet sets, clothing, soaps, shampoos, tooth brushes, paper products, towels, washcloths, hand towels, snacks, cases of water, and many school supplies for children which included backpacks, lunch boxes, notebooks, paper, pencils, journals, and spiral notebooks!
Melissa Seward will deliver all of these items to the Laurel Center Monday, July 31st!
Update: Thanks to the generosity of our church family, much needed donations of sheet sets, clothing, soaps, shampoos, tooth brushes, paper products, towels, washcloths, hand towels, snacks, cases of water, and many school supplies for children which included backpacks, lunch boxes, notebooks, paper, pencils, journals, and spiral notebooks!
Melissa Seward will deliver all of these items to the Laurel Center Monday, July 31st!
SJ June 2017 Outreach Project - Collecting Diapers and Wipes for the Red Wagon Ministry
We are collecting diapers and wipes for the Red Wagon Ministry for our community outreach project in June. By providing these basic necessities, the ministry’s hope is to decrease the incidents of abuse and neglect resulting from a child remaining in a soiled or reused disposable diaper. Along with wipes, we would like to collect Infant to size six (6) diapers. As a fun way to celebrate our project, each week we will display baby pictures from our congregation. Everyone can look at the pictures and guess who that cute baby face belongs to. If you would like to submit a picture, please bring it to Amy Maphis or e-mail amymaphis@gmail.com
Update: Thanks to the generosity of our church family, we collected a total of 1,042 diapers and 2,236 wipes for the Red Wagon Ministries. Thank you for your support.
SJ May 2017 Outreach Project - Provide Lunches to the Winchester/Frederick County Therapeutic Day Treatment Program—Summer 2017
Help us Provide Lunches to the Winchester/Frederick County Therapeutic Day Treatment Program—Summer 2017—by donating cash, check or Walmart gift cards for Lutheran Family Services summer lunch program. Checks should be made payable to “St. John’s Lutheran Church” (just write “lunch program” in the memo). The co-directors expect to provide 1200 lunches to students from June 19th-July 21st. Please contact Sue Goodwin with any questions.
Update:
Thanks to the generosity of our church family, we collected a total of $319.03 (cash, checks and gift cards) to provide Lunches to the Winchester/Frederick County Therapeutic Day Treatment Program—Summer 2017. Thank you for your support.
SJ April 2017 Outreach Project - Collection of Books for the Indian Hollow Elementary School's Summer Reading Program (aka the Trading Post Summer Program)
Our April Outreach project is collecting books for Indian Hollow Elementary School's summer reading program (known as the Trading Post Summer Program). Books may be new, gently used or, if you prefer, you can make a donation - Please see Nancy Pitcock. The youth will collect your books during the Offering or you can drop them in the crate located beside the CCAP can.
Update:
We collected 385 books and $56 for the Indian Hollow Elementary School’s summer reading program (known as Trading Post Summer Program). Nancy will contact the librarian to find out if they want more books purchased with the money or if they need it to buy more totes to haul the books in. Great job everyone.