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Missions
Festival of Sharing Once again, we’ll be participating in the UMC Festival of Sharing by assembling Personal Hygiene Packs. To do so, we’ll need plenty of the following items by September 22, when we’ll have a “party” to put together the Packs. If you’d like to give cash, please do so by September 15. Skin…
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Two chances to help with kids
The donations for the Missouri Youth Personal Care Kits for teenagers in transition was great. Melissa delivered all 23 of them to the Festival of Sharing site in Dexter. Thanks Melissa! Now, we have two mission options for reaching out to kids with in the coming months. Last month, we outlined a partnership with Epworth…
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Mission Minute
There are two options for giving to the community during October. We’re looking to work with Epworth and do a little Halloween card bomb for the residents at My Place Too. First, we’re looking for some volunteers to help adopt a dorm with Epworth. Founded in 1864, Epworth is a multiservice agency that seeks to…
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Mission Minute: Festival of Sharing
Thank you for all of your donations of school supplies. The schools are very appreciative of your support of local students. During the month of September, the mission is to the Festival of Sharing. We’ve selected the Missouri Youth Personal Care Pack. These packs are for youth ages 12-18 who have experienced a crisis and…
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Festival of Sharing Update
The 2022 Report of Giving for Festival of Sharing is now available and shares a viewpoint of our combined efforts over the last year. Of course, there are also many experiences and pictures that continue to tell the story of churches and communities working together. If you’d like to see the full Report of Giving,…
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See the good
Dear family at St. Andrew’s, We can not thank you enough for your monthly donations and your very generous gift of all those amazing cookie morsels! Because of you all, we were able to help 133 families (257 individuals) with our extra special Christmas goodies. You all are a huge blessing to your community and…
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Rummage sale to support missions
You can support the Festival of Sharing by bringing your unwanted items (rummage) into church and dropping it off in our C-room across from the Fellowship Hall. All items need to be brought in by September 15th. Our sale dates will be Friday and Saturday, September 23-24. We will gladly accept fall, winter, and summer…
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Mission Minute in 2 parts!
Outstanding job! The donations of school supplies was fabulous. We wound up with 7 bottles of body wash, some Post-It notes, 4 binders, 17 erasers, 8 boxes of colored pencils, 5 boxes of washable markers, 3 boxes of red ink pens, 1 pack of blue pens, 26 boxes of crayons (for a total of 586!),…
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Mission Minute
Because of your generosity, $524 was collected for the Welcome Backpacks that will be going to the Missouri Annual Conference. With that amount, the church will be able to send 10 complete backpacks! There will be some items that were purchased in quantities that will mean we have some leftovers. Those will also be sent.…
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What does 25 of 20 look like?
Fabulous! We smashed our goal of creating 20 Missouri Reading and Writing Packs and actually created 25! In addition to that, we have a great monetary donation to send with our packs. These items will be heading north on October 9th to be delivered to Festival of Sharing through the LifeWise StL Sharefest. Thank you…