St. Nicholas Day Benevolence Project

MatthewI — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:52:37 -0800

This year to honor the memory of our parish patron, St. Nicholas, the Benevolence team is collecting items for the Living Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center. This year the center is need of the following items:

Enfamil-Lipil formula
Diapers, size 4 and up
Baby lotion
Rash creme
Winter outfits, sizes 0-6 months

Items may be dropped off in the church basement. Please help us support this community resource!

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Benevolence & Mission Team Notes

frjames — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:51:13 -0700

Present for the June 24 meeting were”: Fr. James, Marsha Morrison, Nancy Smith

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We discussed the range of responsibilites that fall within the oversight of this ministry team as listed below. We also reviewed budget allocations

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Food <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Pantry Drive. We will be collecting through end of the Dormition Fast (August 1-15) and deliver the items collected to the St. Patrick’s RCC Food Pantry

Garage Sale for Hogar Raphael is targeted for a late September date

Some interest was mentioned in trying to have the sale date coincide with the Urbana Sweet Corn Festival dates. If Carol Buriak is interested we may target that date however both Nancy and Fr. James are traveling in August.

Individuals Fr. James talked about the range of requests he receives and asked for some general guidelines so deciding on limits did not fall entirely on him.

We agreed on a $100 incident/person limit. Greater needs like utility bills or larger needs will be referred back to team members for discussion. Some examples of needs currently being presented are.

Our own people anonymous

Andrae Williams- Motel Room

Lisa ?? a woman from Sadorus falling behind

Austyn Gray - Displaced working single mother w/ 3 children

Hospitality

Coffee Hour

Special Events

Feasts

Funerals & Illness

Extra Local & Foreign Missions

FFH We sent $3000

IOCC (Interrnational Orthodox Christian Charities)

Diocesan Mission Fund $100 per mo. sent quarterly

Orphanges

Hogar Raphael

Project Mexico

Romanian (through the Reader Timothy f/Decatur)

Russia Clothing Drive

OCMC (Orthodox Christian Mission Center) Typically student Real Break requests or other short and long term missionaries, Charles Coates medical missionary to Uganda, Nathan Hoppe, Dennis Luisi in Albania

Prison Ministry

Currently Fr. James is visiting one prisoner in Jacksonville State Prison.

He has received help to obtain vocational licensing, and for toiletries, etc.

Next meeting will be moved to July 29 (5th week) to accommodate travel

We plan to discuss:

Garage sale plans,

Nancy will discuss w/Carol Buriak

Future Mission trips,

Carol Akers involvement sought concerning Hogar

Possible youth event for next year

parishioner involvement in local charitable work

Marsha to come with recommendation

Everyone is going to make a concerted effort to get at least one more person at our next mtg.

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