 Donna DuPont Chairperson | The Missions Committee consists of the following members: Donna DuPont, Lori Shoup, and Julie Whalen. Council liaison is Donna DuPont. The Mission Committee's purpose is to focus how Rehoboth can help others in need outside the church's walls both locally and globally. |
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Rehoboth Evangelical Lutheran Church
an ELCA congregation |
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Missions Committee
2010 Mission Work The Mission Committee (Donna DuPont, Lori Shoup, Julie Whalen, and Pastor Eric) has been working to prepare our “Mission Projects” for 2010. Here are our monthly projects and how you can help Rehoboth reach out to those in other countries and to people in our own backyards:
We continually collect food donations for CAST (Churches Are Serving Together). These are non-perishable items that are not opened or out-dated. The following items are needed all the time: canned meat (ham,salmon,spam,chicken), jelly, and canned fruit. Also accepted are laundry and cleaning supplies and personal products such as soap, shampoo, and toothpaste. There is a basket located in the narthex. We also participate in CAST’s Back-To-School Project each year. That program asks volunteers to purchase a new back-to-school outfit for a needy child in our area. We also collect backpacks and school supplies. Signups for this project are usually in April and the items are needed by early to mid August. The Mission:Action ladies also accept cotton or cotton blend fabric, flannel, sheets (any size including flannel), blankets, crochet thread (for tying the quilts) and layette items (Onsies, sleepers, sweaters, sweatshirts (in sizes 0-24 months), receiving blankets, cloth diapers, washcloths, bath-size bars of soap, and diaper pins) any time of the year. They have been sewing and assembling quilts and layettes for many years. Look for the Mission:Action basket. Rehoboth also supports the Yellow Ribbon Girls . This organization sends “treats” to our service men and women serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. Each month a different snack is requested. Details are in the bulletins and monthly newsletters. Donna DuPont continues to collect aluminum cans for our Senegal missionary friends: Bill and Debby Bosley. The cans are recycled and the money collected is used for children’s immunizations. We will continue to collect and recycle used cell phones to be donated to the Women’s Center of Beaver County . We are continuing to increase awareness of a program utilizing GoodSearch ( www.goodsearch.com ) which is a search engine on the Internet. Each time someone goes to this website and uses their search engine (powered by Yahoo), they donate about a penny per search to a charity the user designates. We recommended supporting one of the following charities: Lutheran World Relief, Lutheran Disaster Response, The One Campaign, Heifer International, Habitat for Humanity (Pittsburgh branch), Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, or even our very own Rehoboth Evangelical Lutheran Church. In 2009, Rehoboth earned $4.09 from 383 searches using Goodsearch. GoodShop (www.goodshop.com) for Rehoboth earned $4.17 in 2009. In 2010, we will be promoting a toolbar that can be downloaded and installed on Internet Explorer which will automatically send your donations to Rehoboth for any qualifying online purchases. Monies designated for Rehoboth will be used towards our Building Expansion. Thanks to the many people who so willingly give to our mission projects. We are making a difference.
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