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Bridges at the Shore: Bridges will be going to Red Bank, Keansburg and Freehold on Friday evening November 18th to hand out clothing, blankets, food, toiletries and conversation to low income neighbors. We’ll be sorting clothing on Thursday, Nov 17th at 6pm in the church sanctuary. The group goes every 3rd Friday. Contact Kathy Logan, if you can help: bridgesattheshore@hotmail.com.
Mission One – This November our church will be participating in the national United Church of Christ initiative called “Mission One.” Here is the description from the UCC.org website:
“In a nutshell, ‘One united church on a shared mission for 11 powerful days to feed the hungry and confront food-related injustice’ is the centerpiece of this major push that we are launching today,” the Rev. Geoffrey A. Black, the UCC’s general minister and president, told United Church News. “If you’ve ever yearned for the whole UCC to walk hand in hand to achieve a common goal, this is the answer to that prayer.”
Affirmed unanimously by the UCC’s 90-member Executive Council, meeting March 17-19 at the Church House in Cleveland, “Mission: 1″ — as the campaign will be called — plays on the prevalence of the number “1″ in the Nov. 1-11, 2011, timeframe and calls for three overarching goals:
- In the 11 days, the United Church of Christ will collect more than 1 million items of healthy food and other household items for local food banks and outreach services.
- In the 11 days, the United Church of Christ will make an extra-special push to gather online contribution of more than $111,111 for Neighbors in Need, offerings that will be shared for hunger-action purposes with agencies of justice and compassion throughout the United States.
- In the 11 days, the United Church of Christ will offer more than 11,111 letters to Congress asking the government to reform U.S. foreign assistance in a way that more effectively benefits hungry and poor people worldwide, helping to provide a major final push to Bread for the World’s 2011 “Offering of Letters” campaign.
Our own church’s focus will be on supporting our local food pantries and soup kitchens, as well as helping Bread for the World’s “Offering of Letters” to affect lasting change. You will hear more as we get closer….
Mission Needs – The Calico Cat Cupboard is in need of children’s gently used summer clothing (shorts & tops) sizes 6 – teens/adult sizes. Put donations in narthex. HELP WANTED FOR ST. MARK’S! We are looking for volunteers to help out in the soup kitchen. Our church serves eight time s a year at St. Mark’s located at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Kennedy Way in Keansburg. You can help preapre food or serve a hot meal at 11:15 a.m. on Saturdays. The dates for the remainder of this year are December 4th. Please sign up in Fellowship Hall.
Project Paul – Thanks to all that voted in May for Project PAUL to win a grant from Pepsi, the organization ended the month in 47th place out of 340 in the 5K category which was high enough for the project to get in the running for the month of June. It is now in 18th place and needs to move up at least 8 more spots to be a finalist. Please keep voting daily and if you are on Facebook, you can vote twice daily. You can vote for a total of 10 ideas daily and there are 2 educational ideas from Rutgers if you would like to support them and if you want to use your other votes talk to Cindi Menard about other organizations that have been helping Project PAUL.
Bridges at the Shore – Bridges is now looking for children’s and women’s clothing, coats and sweatshirts, sneakers and boots, and more. If you have time to help sort clothing, we’ll be sorting each 3rd Thursday evening at 6pm in our church. The group will go out on the 3rd Friday of each month. Thank you!