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Annual Conference Offerings
Each year at Annual Conference, offerings are collected from those who attend. St. Andrew’s has traditionally contributed to each of the three offerings taken. This year, the offerings will be directed to the Mozambique Initiative, Pathway Out of Poverty, and Rural Missouri Connection. In the past, we have collected noisy offerings to contribute at Annual…
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Festival of Sharing Update
Festival of Sharing had to cancel their spring gatherings, but they are still on track for the main event. In fact, they are preparing for items at the Missouri Annual Conference. Each region has a different assignment. We are responsible for bottles of shampoo in sizes ranging from 12-16 ounces. It doesn’t need to be…
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Food Pantry Needs
Great job! We delivered 127 items to the DeSoto Food Pantry! This included all your contributions from the last couple of months, but it was still an impressive amount of items. We’re still looking for canned potatoes and canned beans (not to be confused with canned green beans). You can still bring these into the…
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Noisy Offerings
Each year, offerings are taken during the Missouri Annual Conference. We normally collect money for these three offerings in the months leading up to the conference. In previous years, this has been done through a noisy offering, and we intended to do this again this year. The offerings were scheduled for March 22nd, April 19th,…
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Mission Minute
As a grandma and great aunt I would ask for prayers for kids who are left without lunches and breakfasts. The schools are doing their best to provide these during dismissal, but perhaps we can help them. Pray for discernment to show us a way to help. -Frances Deaton, Mission Chair
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Food Pantry Needs
The church is seeking a volunteer to deliver food items to the food pantry. This should be done on a monthly basis, and delivery must be coordinated with Mildred. Someone who is able to simply load up the donated items, count them, and get them to the pantry is what is needed. If you are…
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Festival of Sharing
The Festival of Sharing is an interfaith celebration and gathering of resources. As a cooperative response to world hunger, poverty, and injustice, we seek to raise awareness of its causes and to address solutions. The Festival of Sharing promotes and supports projects and programs by providing funding and resource goods. When people of faith come…
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Mission Minute
Through your donations, we were able to contribute 77 boxes of valentines to the schools. The students receiving them will know there are people who care about them. Our children are the future and your thoughtfulness and generosity show them you care.
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Give: an Expression of Love
Paying Ameren isn’t really inspiring. There’s no great joy or love felt when paying utilities or even paying other recurring monthly bills. So what inspires people in the church to pay all those boring bills? Nothing. We don’t give because Ameren gives us a warm, fuzzy feeling. (That’s Spire because the church has gas furnaces!)…
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Night to Shine
Planning is well underway for the 2020 Night to Shine. We will again host this at Vineland Elementary School. The venue was so easy to work with last year, and it offers room to grow. That growth means that we’ll need a few more volunteers this year. In fact, we estimate that we need 1.5-2…