CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
to Support Local Missions
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Cross-Lines Community Outreach
visit
Cross-Lines.org
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Closet Full? Donate WINTER clothing!
Cross-lines is now accepting fall and winter clothing in good condition. PLEASE, no more summer clothes.
There is no storage space for off-season clothing. Household items are always welcome.
Find the collection box outside the east entrance to Hager Hall (near the soda machine).
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Food for Cross-Lines
The cold can be hard to tolerate, but think how hard it must be if you are hungry too!
Find the shopping cart in the hall in front of the Nursery and Parlor. It needs to be filled with food for Cross-Lines!
Please give generously.
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Johnson County
Interfaith Hospitality Network
A Community Response for Homeless Families
Next Volunteer Training session:
Tuesday, October 28th
from 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Hillcrest Covenant Church,
8801 Nall Avenue, Prairie Village
RSVP not necessary
See
Johnson County IHN volunteer info
or Call IHN Family Center, 913-345-2121
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Please consider being part of Asbury's ministry to homeless families in Johnson County, by volunteering for Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN).
Coming to Johnson County in 2003, this program is affiliated with a national advisory corporation called Family Promise, Inc. and about 100 other similar programs
in the U.S. The sole purpose of IHN is to assist families in Johnson County that are homeless.
A number of local faith communities, like Asbury, support IHN and their guests by providing shelter and meals on a weekly rotation.
Asbury has a real need for NEW volunteers to help with our next rotation. If you are interested please note that training is required.
Training sessions are scheduled frequently. (see above)
If you have any questions please contact Asbury's coordinator, Linda Stinnett, at 913-341-5763.
Johnson County IHN Website
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"Bishop’s Round-up
for Hunger"
— Saturday, November 15 —
Goods from all over Kansas
are collected in Lawrence
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Rev. Ronald Williams, vice chairperson of the Bishop’s Round-up for Hunger committee, wants to encourage support for this year’s Round-up for Hunger.
You cannot sit in a conversation these days without hearing about gasoline prices and other economic woes. This effects our institutions in many ways, including:
• Families have to choose between food on the table and gas in the car to get to work.
• Food donors find that they do not have the extra funds to donate or the gas to take it to the agency.
• Food prices have increased both for the families and for the people donating food.
Round-up for Hunger is coming up in a few months and is more important than ever because:
• Kansas East Conference agencies depend on the food brought to Round-up. It is critical to their ministry.
• Our cash-receiving agencies in Haiti and Mexico also need our offerings. "Give Ye Them To Eat" in Mexico has had its receipts drop radically lately, and a special fund drive had to be held to help them.
• We have a special opportunity in Haiti with the Edgertons there to make our cash donations work.
We need to begin now to search out sales for food donations to Round-up to make donation dollars go further.
When Round-up time comes, some churches could pool their transportation to the event.
The bottom line is that we had a decrease in food donations for Round-up last year. With the increased need for food service and the critical need of our UMC agencies for the food donations, the food really needs to come into Roundup. I know it is needed at other places, but it is also needed at the Round-up site.
Ronald J. Williams
To Help with Unloading:
Contact Elaine Hager
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