LSS Food Pantry Outreach Project

Beginning May 2, we will be collecting personal care items for the Lutheran Social Services Food Pantry in Delaware.  LSS can purchase some, but not all, of these items from the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, but because people using food stamps are not allowed to buy personal items, there is always a huge shortage of the following items:

• Toothpaste

• Toothbrushes

• Shampoo

• Deodorant

• Toilet Paper

• Diapers, sizes 3,4,& 5 (Not newborn or 1 year)

• Liquid laundry detergent, (Approximately 30 ounce containers).

If you would like to help, please select any of the items listed and place them on the table in the Gathering space by May 23.  Your support of this Outreach Project for Lutheran Social Services will be greatly appreciated!

Community Caregivers Project

During Lent, the Servant Shepherds, with help from the congregation, will be making care boxes to thank those in our community who serve others by caring for them. The care boxes will consist of a variety of prepackaged snacks and thank you cards.

We need your help in several ways. One way is making thank you cards for our community helpers. We will have card kits available for members/families to take home. There are 10 cards in each kit, and everything you need is included.

The second opportunity is to provide individual, pre packaged snacks such as chips, granola bars or cookies. Please no homemade food items. We will put these snack items with the homemade cards in decorated boxes and deliver to various community locations.

The card kits will be available to pick up at Church on the table near the door beginning on Ash Wednesday, February 17.

We are asking all finished cards and snacks to be returned Church no later than March 24. We will then assemble these care boxes to be delivered the following week.

Thank you so much for your service to show our appreciation to those who care for others in our community.

ELCA 40 Days of Hunger Appeal

ELCA World Hunger is our church’s ministry to end hunger and poverty. We journey alongside our partners and companions in the United States and 60 other countries. Your gifts to ELCA World Hunger address hunger and poverty around the world with creative and courageous action. Over the last year, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more people into hunger and poverty. Our work together is more important than ever, even as we feel separated from each other.

As the world has reeled from the effects of a deadly pandemic, we have seen the number of hungry people around the world rise, watched as food pantries and soup kitchens expanded to serve an ever-growing number of guests, and longed together for the time when we “will hunger no more, and thirst no more … and God will wipe away every tear from [our] eyes” (Revelation 7:16-17).

This very yearning is at the heart of who we are as church together. Yet our longing has never led to inertia or despair, despite the discouraging forecasts. We are an Easter people, ever journeying toward the cross but trusting in faith that God’s story does not end on that hill.

This Lent, you’re invited to join with fellow supporters to pledge to work to end hunger together during ELCA World Hunger’s 40 Days of Giving. Your support is critically needed for people around the world facing hunger and poverty. Bring ELCA World Hunger into the life of your congregation and family with resources that are available to use at home, online or in person:

• A devotional calendar with daily ideas for reflection, giving and action.

• A weekly study inviting deep discernment and critical thinking, with inspirational stories about how your gifts to ELCA World Hunger are at work in the world.

• Additional resources, including an inspirational weekly email series. You’re invited to study, pray, reflect and give during ELCA World Hunger’s 40 Days of Giving — for our families, our neighbors and communities around the world.

Visit ELCA.org/40days to get started today.

Red Cross Blood Drive