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Mission Minute
April’s Mission Minute Results Your generous donations of over $800 to the senior lunch payoff program will enable many seniors in the 2023 class to fully participate in graduation activities. They can walk in graduation with their classmates, hear their name be read, and walk to the podium to receive their diploma in front of…
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Missouri Annual Conference Update
The Missouri Annual Conference will be June 9-11. We usually give during the conference, and we’ll do this again this year. There will be two offerings collected, and one of those will be directed to the Mozambique Initiative. St. Andrew’s has been sending $450 each year to the Mozambique Initiative for many years. The special…
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Getting rid of all the junk, conference giving, and Ukraine
The Missouri Annual Conference is just a month away, and there will be two offerings collected during the event. The information about the offerings was just released, and although we have some previous giving to support these, if you’d like to give for either offering, please do so. Saturday’s offering will be collected during the…
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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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Moto Rally for Mozambique
Join Missouri Bishop Bob Farr as he travels around the Missouri Conference on his Harley in support of the Mozambique Initiative. The purpose of the ride is to raise money to purchase motorcycles for United Methodist pastors in Mozambique. In remote areas that lack good roads, motorcycles are the most common and practical form of…
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Conference Offering Totals
We sent about $96 for each of the three offerings during Annual Conference. Well, the totals are in now! Pathway Out of Poverty received $13,365. This money stays right here in Missouri to benefit children by increasing literacy and school success. Puerto Rico received $21,739, and this allowed the conference to surpass the goal of…
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Where the Money Goes!
Next few on our list! Apportionment Amount Black College Fund $323.00 Mozambique Initiative $450.00 Pastoral Excellence (now called Leadership Excellence) $547.00 Mission, Service, & Justice Ministries $623.00
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Devastation in Mozambique
Cyclone Idai: Ways to Respond On March 14, Cyclone Idai made landfall at the city of Beira, Mozambique. The cyclone slammed into the southeast African country as a high-end Category 2 storm with 110 mph winds at midnight Thursday, causing widespread devastation, before moving inland into Zimbabwe and Malawi. Aid agencies fear that as much…
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Mozambique Initiative
St. Andrew’s has pledged $450 annually to the Mozambique Initiative. This is above any of our normal apportionment, and after some discussion, we’d like to get this amount paid before the year gets any older. The Proposal Here is the idea: We are asking that 16 people give $10 each month over the next three…
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Noisy Offerings
If you missed worship on April 22nd, your hearing is probably all the better for it. The noisy offering that was collected totaled almost $90…but we can do better than that! And you’ll have your chance too. Noisy offerings will also be collected on May 13th and June 3rd. These offerings will be combined, split…