Next Faith-in-Action Meeting
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Faith-in-Action activities are open to everyone. For more information or to volunteer, contact Fanny Crawford
Report on On-going FIA Projects: Micah's Backpack provides food for children to eat on the weekends. Our church will be collaborating with St. John's Lutheran Church to start a Micah's Backpacks program at Paramount Elementary School. Cash donations and volunteers to fill the backpacks each week are needed. Estimated cost is $8 per child per weekend. Micah's Backpack only operates while school is in session but we will distribute food from now until the end of the school year and then resume in the fall. For more information or to volunteer, contact Tracy Barlup.
REACH Shelter and Holly House Dinners
Lou Murray, with support from the rest of the FIA committee, led a very successful REACH Cold Weather Shelter dinner project in February. Lou, Tamela and Dean Brocious, Cynthia Cantrell Fanny Crawford, Michael Holland, Liz Jones, Carol and Steve Maass, Bill and Yvonne Pfoutz and Reverend Valerie and Grant Wills purchased ingredients and prepared and served meals for approximately 75 people on each of two evenings. Several people also made financial contributions to the effort. Thanks to the downtown Hagerstown Presbyterian Church for collaborating with us on this project. Volunteers are needed for the Holly House Dinner Project to take place this spring.
Holly House Dinners: Volunteers are needed to provide dinners at Holly House, a non-profit assisted living facility for the elderly. The building on South Potomac Street is home for 15 residents. For more information or to volunteer, talk to Lou Murray after church on Sundays.
Full Ton Food Drive
We are well on our way to reaching our goal of 2000 pounds of non-perishables for the Food Resources Warehouse by June 30. Drop off your contributions in the containers in the sanctuary foyer. We especially need canned fruits, peanut butter and cereal. If you’d like to contribute cash instead, one dollar is equivalent to four pounds. See treasurer Bill Pfoutz or Fanny Crawford to have your cash contribution credited to the Food Drive. We also need a volunteer to create a graph to hang near the collection basket to track progress toward our goal.
CASA, the local women’s shelter
See a complete list of CASA needs on the FIA bulletin board in the sanctuary foyer. Leave your donations in the CASA basket in the sanctuary foyer.
Winter Street School Clothing
Each fall, church members knit, crochet, or purchase hats, scarves, gloves and mittens for Winter Street Elementary School children. Volunteers are needed to knit for the September winter clothing drive.
Ways You Can Help with Faith-in-Action Projects:
Donate one item of non-perishable food each Sunday.
Make a graph to track our Full-Ton Food Drive progress
Mail or email invitations to the FIA Fair. Stamps & materials provided.
Help with the Holly House dinner project this spring.
Knit or crochet hats, scarves, gloves or mittens for Winter Street School children. Yarn provided.
Attend the FIA Fair on March 18
Come to the April 15 FIA meeting to share your ideas.
Faith-in-Action activities are open to everyone. For more information or to volunteer, contact Fanny Crawford.
