WELCA needs your help

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Jane Potter, Shirley Ebert, Roz Eckardt, Cherie Brown, Bobbi Metz, Kim Hill, and Nancy Korn currently work on quilts for Lutheran World Relief. There have been 26 more quilts made that will the total number of quilts made by the Holy Trinity Quilters to 398.
The 26 quilts that we dedicated last March 2019 were shipped to Tanzania in September. LWR shipped 333,405 quilts worldwide. Quilts are the most requested item by LWR partner agencies.
If you would like to make a donation to cover the cost of shipping the quilts to Maryland (approximately $6 per quilt) currently, please send your check to the church office and designate it for quilt shipping.
You may also donate to the Lutheran World Relief Quilt and Kit Shipping Fund at lwr.org/donate/shipping fund to support shipping quilts from the warehouse to countries overseas ($2.25 per quilt).
National Quilting Day was March 21, 2020 and marked 75 years of comforting the world with quilts. In 1945, by the end of the Second World War, an estimated one-fifth of the world’s Lutherans were left homeless. That same year, Lutheran churches in at least 20 states mobilized to help in Europe through a new agency called Lutheran World Relief. It was also the year that the first LWR Mission Quilts reached families in war-torn Europe. Within a decade, quilts and kits were reaching struggling neighbors across the globe. Today, the Quilt and Kit Ministry is LWR’s longest running program.

Opportunity for ministry outreach

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We received word of another opportunity for ministry outreach during this health crisis.  You are encouraged to send cards or letters of appreciation to the AnMed staff thanking them for their work during COVID-19.  Particular groups that could be addressed include: Physicians, Nurses, Staff in general, EVS – Environmental Services (they are the ones who courageously go into rooms and clean them before and after COVID-19 patients.  The cards/letters can be sent in bundles in large envelopes to:  Rev. Tricia G. Lytle, Manager of Spiritual Care, AnMed Health, 800 N. Fant Street, Anderson, SC  29621 and she will make sure that these get to the appropriate staff.

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Final update

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We thank our Lutheran Men in Mission for all their hard work for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper.
They fed 98 people for their 2nd Shrove Tuesday event in Fellowship Hall.
The total brought in was $784.00 and will be dispersed by the Lutheran Men In Mission for a project yet to be determined.

March 8th Blood Drive

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On March 8th Blood mobile will be in the front
parking lot from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Please consider giving the “gift of life.”

SOUPER BOWL OF CARING SUNDAY Final Totals

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Thank you to all who participated in the Souper Bowl of Caring last Sunday.
The total raised by our congregation for both Super Bowl teams was:
the San Francisco 49ers ($230.50) and
the Kansas City Chiefs ($327.00)
for a grand total of ($557.50).
All monies received will be sent to AIM.

Homeless Period Project update

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Thanks to all who so generously donated items to the Homeless Period Project. Although the Faith Community Nurses collection drive is over, the need is still great. This is an ongoing project for the chapter at St. John’s United Methodist Church who will continue with distribution of these much needed resources for women who are homeless, in shelters, with limited resources, and in for all the local schools. If you are interested in donating to this project, there are drop off sites at the United Way, Anderson Fire Dept. Station 1, Comfort Keepers Home Care, and the St. John’s Clothes Closet. Monetary donations can also be payable to St. John’s UMC and dropped off at the church office. For more information on donating, contact nurse@stjohnsanderson.com.

OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE

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OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE
There is a box in the room off the Narthex to receive food items for A.I.M. for the month of January. Food list: Peanut Butter, rice, dried beans, pasta, canned meat, canned fruit, canned soup, oatmeal, grits, flour, sugar, cereal, cooking oil—cleaning/personal hygiene list: bath soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, toilet tissue, laundry soap, bleach, cleaning solutions (Lysol, Mr. Clean for example). Items are gathered and taken to each agency throughout the month. Please note: perishables are not included.

Your Help is Needed

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The Faith Community Nurse Network of the greater Anderson area are collecting feminine hygiene items for the Homeless Period Project. These items will be made into kits and distributed to the homeless and low income women who visit the clothes closet at St John’s UMC in downtown Anderson. Each week, some 30-40 women receive these packets for themselves, their daughters and granddaughters. These basic needed items are costly and taxed as well. If you would like to help with this project, please collect any of the items on this list and place them in the box on the table in the narthex.
•Tampons, all sizes
•Sanitary Napkins thick and thin
•Panty liners
•Feminine hygiene wipes (individually packaged)
•Quart sized zip lock bags
•Kitchen sized trash bags
Thank you for your generosity in this much needed project.
Amy Goodson, FCN

Angel Tree is back!

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Time to help AIM provide Christmas for many Anderson families.
1. Pick a tag off the “Angel Tree” in the Narthex and go shopping.

2.Please do not wrap gifts.

3.Leave gift, with tag attached, in the church office parlor.

Gifts should be returned NO LATER than, Sunday, December 1st, after
which, you will be responsible for delivering your gifts to A.I.M.

Trick or treat so others may eat 2019

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Trick -or-Treat- So- Others- May- Eat — The Youth will meet after the Late Service on October 20th and head to Subway for lunch and then go to the neighborhoods to distribute the bags. We will once again have bags available for the congregation to make food donations. The congregation is asked to pick up their bag on the 20th and bring it back on the 27th filled with food items and put them in the room off the Narthex. Then on October 27th, the Youth will return to the neighborhoods to pick up the filled bags. We will need some vehicles to help with the pick-up. If you are able to help, please see Amy Goodson.