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Board of Social Ministry

Meeting Wednesday, November 20 at 7 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall

2013 Autumn Food Drive - NOW - We are asking for donations of pasta, turkeys and canned tuna/chicken/spam or beefaroni for the Lord's Pantry in Hackettstown. The food pantry is in dire need, having added 50 new families being served each month.  Please place your donations in the tubs in the hallway.

 
FOOD PANTRY UPDATE
 
The Lord's Pantry  continues to serve an ever-increasing number of people every month (January, 995 served).  The Lord's pantry could not continue to meet this fundamental need without your support.  Donations are welcome on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. - noon.  For further information, contact Toni Torcia at 908-979-9148.  All donations will go directly to Trinity UMC "Lord's Pantry." 
 

COFFEE HOUR HOSTING
 
Please sign up (hallway bulletin board) to host COFFEE hour after church on Sundays!

 
Summer Mission Project Update - 2013
Thank you again!! We were able to exceed our goal of providing an assortment of school supplies for 100 school children from low-income families for this fall! (130 bags full).  Thank you to all who donated supplies and those who helped assemble the supplies for distribution.

Thank you!
 
2012: The teachers and students in need at Willow Grove Elementary School thank all of you who donated to our recent School Supply Project.  We donated 24 boxes of school suppplies consisting of the following: 12 Sharpie markers, 120 glue sticks, 29 Wet Ones, 3 hand sanitizers 30 3-ring one-inch binders, 90 packages of 24 crayons, 19 packages of highlighters, 9 containers of Clorox wipes, 4 dark-green skiens, 5 packages of lined composition paper, 120 erasers, 30 Expo markers, 34 rolls of Scotch tape, 60 bottles of white glue, 30 colored pencils, 97 boxes of pencils, and 34 plastic pencil boxes!  "If anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him how does God's love abide in him?" (1 John 3:17)