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Food Pantry Needs for October
For the month of October, look for canned cranberry sauce and evaporated milk for the Food Pantry. Both are very important for their Thanksgiving meals, and many people often overlook donating them. Evaporated milk can be purchased at Save-a-Lot for $0.89 a can, but you might be able to find it cheaper elsewhere too. We…
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Festival of Sharing
We are hoping to get enough materials together to take 50 Missouri Student Dental Packs to the Festival of Sharing. The items needed are children’s toothbrushes, adult toothbrushes, tubes of toothpaste (at least 6 ounces), and packets of floss. All items need to be unopened, and you can deposit your donation at the back of…
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September Food Pantry Needs
There are some items that the food pantry distributes each month; other items get distributed less frequently. Now is the time of year when the pantry runs low on the items distributed every month. This includes boxed pastas and jell-o. Specifically, they need: pasta without meat, like Spaghetti-os, Hamburger Helper, boxed macaroni and cheese, and…
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Mission & Outreach Forms
The green forms in the pews are being turned in by several of you. Thank you! That makes it much easier to report the number of people who are engaged in missions and outreach each week. A couple of items to note: The Mid East Area Agency on Aging has recently changed its name to…
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Dedication at Pony Bird
The swing and glider that we donated to Pony Bird will be dedicated on Tuesday, July 31st at 6:30 PM. The swing is in an idyllic location under some trees and the glider has a place of prominence overlooking the pond. The short dedication ceremony will be followed by refreshments, tours of the facility, and…
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2018 Festival of Sharing
Festival of Sharing is going through some changes this year, and the set-up for giving is a little different. However, the needs still exist, and this year, we’ll be focusing on the Missouri Student Dental Pack for our Festival of Sharing drive. The goal this year is 3,535 dental packs, which is 613 more than…
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August Food Pantry Needs
You did a fabulous job of bringing items in June and July for the food pantry box. Those are slim months for donations for the food pantry, and we managed to get them 82 additional items. For August, the focus is canned carrots. Think of all the eyesight that you’ll be preserving! If you have…
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Missions & Outreach
There’s a new form in town! Beginning on Sunday, July 1st, you’ll see a bright green form added to the offertory slots on the back of each pew. This form is a way for you to share your non-monetary offerings. You see, each week, we report to the Missouri Annual Conference on attendance, professions of…
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Food Pantry Needs for July
National Bean Day might be in January, but we need to think about beans in July. The food pantry item for this month is canned beans. Wait! We are not talking about canned green beans. We’re talking about legumes: kidney beans, lima beans, cannellini beans, great northern beans, black beans, pinto beans, refried beans…the list…
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Pony Bird Items
The Drury Home of Pony Bird in Desoto was very excited to receive the gifts of a swing and a glider bench for use by residents and their visiting families. The bench was placed on the dock by the pond, and the swing is on a concrete pathway. We will have a dedication service later.…