Missions Opportunities for April 2006
Congregations in Service, a group organized in 2004 representing various Savannah congregations, will be hosting a fourth community service morning on Saturday, April 29 at different venues in Savannah. [We] are invited to work together on projects in the community from 8:00 am until 12:00 pm, followed by a free lunch at St. Paul's Lutheran Church on the corner of Bull and 31st Street. (Continental breakfast at First Presbyterian at 7:30 am) Six projects are scheduled:
1. Planting shrubbery for Habitat for Humanity
2 Assisting the Salvation Army on a project
3 Union Mission Gardening project(family shelter on Jasmine Avenue)must be at least 18 yoa
4 A "No Sewing Required" quilting project for Union Mission's health clinic(held at First Presbyterian)
5 Donating blood at the Bloodmobile (St. Paul's Lutheran Church)
6. Minor home repair/painting projects in the Eastside neighborhood
Volunteers are also needed to help serve lunch at St. Paul's Lutheran Church and to assist in the nursery at First Presbyterian Church.
If you cannot attend but would like to help, contributions for quilting and landscaping materiald would be greatly appreciated.
Congregations in Service invites everyone to participate. Sign up sheets will be available at the church.
We are also continuing with the two projects from March. The first provides a "mini-library" of fifteen theological books to Baptist pastors in developing countries who have no access to theological libraries under the auspices of the Baptist World Alliance. Each "library" costs $250. The Women of the Church have already funded one library , and are challenging each Sunday School class to do the same. The second project involves donating used, but clean and wearable, business clothes to the Savannah Baptist Center. This would include office wear for women and sturdy work clothes for men. These may be hung in the foyer of the educational building and will be delivered on a regulary basis."
Upcoming mission opportunities include a work trip to New Orleans, a trip to Cuba, Union Mission emphasis, collecting school supplies for Iraqi children and Christmas in August.