SOCIAL MINISTRIES AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Social Ministries will continue our local food pantry and other holiday giving and we are reaching out to other food ministries locally for a combined,  more effective service to the community. Our youth group has joined LCCC’s quarterly meal service at the Judeo-Christian Outreach Center as well as our support for the local UCC homeless shelter program each fall.

This year we are emphasizing support for more projects that can become self-sustaining such as the Heifer Project which provides families with reproductive livestock creating food, income and continued growth.  Another self-sustaining project that we expect to participate in this year is micro-banks that offer small loans to local artisans and entrepreneurs, mostly women, who are often the sole support of their families.

We will sponsor Bread for the World’s letter writing campaign to encourage our government to support projects whose goal is to end hunger everywhere, including the United States.  Shockingly, the US has one of the highest rates of childhood mal-nutrition among industrial countries.  For the holidays, a booklet will be available to our members ; the booklet will list organizations to which our members can donate in honor or memory of friends and family.

All members of LCCC are welcome to join and support any of our  projects locally or nationally.  Think globally – act locally to feed the hungry, cloth the naked and work for an end to poverty.

Social Ministries Calendar 2010
January
Keeping pantry stocked
February
Food Pantry
March
Guidlines discussion/plans
April 9th
JCOC dinner
Women's Fellowship Spring Flea Market 19th
May
Faith Works Project?
June
4th JCOC dinner
5th Clean the Bay
July
Faith Works Project?
Bread for the World - video
August
Collect school supplies
Bread-Letter writing?
September
17th JCOC
October
29th JCOC
Homeless at CCU
November
Thanksgiving/pantry
Women's Fellowship Bazaar - 20th
December
Angel Tree