Family of
God Lutheran Church8625 Zane Avenue N, Brooklyn Park, MN 55443 763-424-8625 Email us at: admin@fogchurch.org Pastors: Paul Burow & Sarah Bunge |
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Join the Social Ministry Committee! Current members include:
Kathy
Behrens |
Social Ministry Extending Christ's Embrace Social Ministry | Mission News | Additional Programs We Support Many activities at Family of God are sponsored and organized by the Social Ministry Committee. Below are just some of the activities that will be coming up throughout the rest of this year. Newest updates are indented under each heading description. New Outreach Projects - The Youth and Social Ministry Committees have joined forces to help stock The Shelf at Champlin Park High School and the “no hassles” food shelf at Brooklyn United Methodist Church for Park Center students. We combined money we received from a Thrivent grant and additional money out of our budgets to buy much needed personal care items, food and paper products. The Shelf is an in-school resource to help CPHS students and their families who are in economic distress. Similarly, the program at the Methodist Church works with CEAP and the YMCA Point Northwest program to help Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center students having trouble getting basic items. Our FOG youth helped do the shopping and delivery of two truckloads of items to each program.
Sponsor a Family - Social Ministry coordinates this project through Catholic Charities. Church members sponsor a whole family, a few recipients, or select single items to purchase from the Sunday School Christmas tree. Social Ministry contributes financially to this project by purchasing larger items and all coats that are requested on our recipient list.
Lutheran World Relief Baby Layettes - specific items are collected as requested by LWR and layettes are assembled at church. Some items are donated by members; others purchased by Social Ministry. Specific items will be listed here. Last year we collected for/assembled 81 baby layettes for LWR. Are you in need of or can help with transportation? There are often members of our congregation who are not able to get to church, doctor appointments, the grocery store or other places for a lack of transportation. The Evangelism committee has established a list of volunteer drivers who would be happy to provide rides. Persons wishing to request a ride should contact Nancy Rhinhart, 763-428-7334 who will arrange for a driver, 36-48 hour advance notice, if possible. If you would like to volunteer as a driver, please notify Nancy. Metro Paint-a-Thon - See Photo Gallery page for pictures from this years 2011 Metro Paint-a-Thon. Vacation Bible School outreach project - this year the VBS kids will be collecting money for mosquito nets for Africa to combat malaria in that country. Social Ministry will match the total amount raised by the VBS kids/families!
Annual Garage Sale - The 2011 Garage sale is over—it was a year of records. We had 128 volunteers, which is an all time high for us. We also worked in record-breaking heat and humidity. Our total sales were just shy of $11,000--$10,932. Thank you to all who donated merchandise, organized it, priced it, displayed it and shopped at the sale. The cleanup was also a big job done in record time due to the great volunteers’ hard work. Thank you to the cochairs: Karla Kitoski, Nancy Rhinhard, Nancy Bixler, Jane Nelson and Jeanne Setnes. The remaining merchandise was donated to Salvation Army and CEAP.
Mission News: We have a two-year covenant with Rev. James and Carol Sack in Tokyo, Japan, to help support their pastoral and teaching work with the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Church. This ELCA Global Mission site is a worshiping community and hosts the Joint Refugee Ministry. More information is at www.elca.org. Members may sign up to give a week’s support of $35 on the 2012 Mission Support Chart. Click here to view recent messages from the Sacks family. Additional Programs We Support:
Immigration & Refugee, Homeless Youth |