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.

Come out and support our Good New Club at Concord Elementary and Mt Lebanon Elementary School

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Holy Trinity currently sponsors two Good News Clubs — one at Concord Elementary School and one at
Mt. Lebanon Elementary School. We are thankful for our volunteers:
Sandi Jordan, Cherie Brown, Leslie Cox, Susan Straup, Anita Brady, Jane Cahaly, Phil Cahaly, and Amy Compton.
We are looking for more volunteers from our congregation.
If you would be willing to serve in this capacity, please see Sandi Jordan.
So many children are hungry for the Word of God. Will you be willing to help out?

Have extra vegetables?

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Vegetables?
If you have an abundance of vegetables from your garden, would you please share them with the congregation? There will be a chair in the Narthex for you to place your extra garden veggies for people to share for a small donation for World Hunger. Any vegetables that are left will be taken to the Soup Kitchen.

Saturday Servants 2019

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Again this year HTLC will prepare bag lunches For Anderson Emergency Soup Kitchen through The Saturday Servant Program. There are four Saturdays in July. Each Saturday we will meet in Fellowship Hall at 10:00 a.m. to prepare 100 peanut butter/jelly sandwiches and 100 bologna sandwiches. Each bag will contain a sandwich, fruit, juice, sweet snack cake and chips. Eight hundred bag lunches will be provided during the month of July.

Lutheran Services Carolinas Capitol Campaign update

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Thank You!
Lutheran Services Carolinas Capitol Campaign Benefiting LSC Child and Family Services in South Carolina Dear fellow members of Holy Trinity, Anderson,
As you know, the capitol campaign for LSC child and family services has been ongoing since March, and will continue for three years.
I want to sincerely thank all of you that have contributed toward this worthy cause! If you have not yet done so, and would like to be a part of this noble effort, please remember that the campaign continues for three years. Further contributions can be made locally to Holy Trinity (please write “Lutheran Services Carolinas”, or, simply,” LSC” on the memo line of your check), or to LSC directly, using the Statement of Intent form, which was included in the March issue of The Messenger. If you need a copy of the form, or the address, please call the church office. Be sure to add the name “Holy Trinity, Anderson” on the Congregation line of the form.
All of us know how important it is to help serve our neighbor in need, and to follow, as First John, Chapter 3 says, “the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.”
Yours in Christ,
Bob Straup, Congregational Campaign Leader

3/30/19 Operation INASMUCH 2019

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OPERATION INASMUCH
SATURDAY, MARCH 30

Thanks to all for making this year a big success!

2019 Operation Inasmuch Summary

By all indications, our OIAM ministry outreach into the Anderson community was well supported and attended this year. In case you are wondering how we did, here are the numbers:
57 people gathered in the Fellowship Hall for a Kick-off Breakfast and brief devotional.

40 bag lunches prepared for our OIAM work crews.

24 family-sized frozen casseroles delivered to Calvary Home for Children.

73 dozen homemade cookies delivered to The Sheriff’s Department, The Anderson City Police Department, Fire Stations 1,2,and 3 and to EMS to show our appreciation for their service to our community.

72 dental kits purchased and prepared for distribution to the clients of Anderson Free Clinic’s Dental Clinic.

420 encouraging notes written to be included in the SnackPacks that United Way distributes each week to needy children

20 big orange bags of litter collected from Vandiver Road and Simpson Road.

8 adults and 1 preschooler prepared dog treats, folded newspaper for kennels, washed dog bowls, and folded laundry at Anderson County P.A.W.S.

6 youth and 3 adults prepared planting beds at the Artisan Community Gardens. 1 official photographer and countless helpers took photographs of the projects.

4 adults trimmed hedges, cleaned out gutters, picked up limbs and debris, spread mulch and pressure washed the Cancer Association of Anderson.

131 items and a huge bag full of hotel size toiletries collected for Haven of Rest.

 

 

 

 

Love One Another Capitol Campaign

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Coming Later in January
Lutheran Services Carolinas
Love One Another Capitol Campaign
Benefiting LSC Child and Family Services in South Carolina
Dear fellow members of Holy Trinity,
In late January, we will begin an exciting opportunity for ministry. We will be launching the Love One Another campaign, which is being conducted in congregations all across the SC Synod. The money raised will go toward maintaining and expanding services that care for young people transitioning out of foster care, extensively vetted refugees, and individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. LSC has a long, successful history of serving these three groups of people.
All of us know how important it is to help serve our neighbor in need, and to follow, as First John, Chapter 3 says, “The message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.” Watch for more information about this important opportunity later in January!
Yours in Christ,
Bob Straup
Congregational Campaign Chairperson

 

To watch a short video on the Love One Another campaign click on the link below

http://www.lscarolinas.net/how-you-can-help/love-one-another-campaign/

 

Love one another campain pledge form
Click on the link above to download the form that you can print out.