An Opportunity
Adopt a Senior
New program of the Family Life Committee reaching out to our home bound shut-ins and nursing home members to let them know how much we love and appreciate them
Adopt a senior for the next year and be involved as little or as much as you choose
Members are asked top send cards, visit, take extended communion, or whatever you feel you want to do with the relationship
You can choose your senior or be matched with one
Please sign up to Adopt a Senior soon!
Another Opportunity
Donations needed for Orion Area "Backpack Blessings" Program which provides a small bag of supplemental food for 30 needy children to take home each weekend
In addition to basic items ordered from IGA or River Bend Food Pantry, they like to include extra items such as pudding cups, fruit snacks, trail mix, goldfish crackers, and other individually packaged items
donations of these "extras" may be left in the designated container in the courtyard hallway
Another Opportunity
Donations needed for the Orion Schools breakfast project. Items appreciated include cheese crackers, peanut butter crackers, pop tarts, granola bars, rice krispy treats, fruit breakfast bars, individual cereal boxes, individual fruit cups. Monetary donations are also needed for purchasing milk. There is a basket in the courtyard hallway for your donations.
One Example
WELCA mission efforts Fall 2018 included sending 25 boxes to Operation Christmas Child and
$200 to ELCA Hurricane Relief Fund
Another Example
WELCA presented $600 to the church on 10/8/2017
for the ELCA Disaster Relief efforts
in response to the victims of the recent Hurricanes
Another Example
$10,423.36 was contributed in 2017 for various disaster relief efforts,
208% of what was budgeted
Another EXAMPLE
Commitment Weekend Pledges for 2018 totaled
$230,400 almost $10,000 over 2017
Another example
Total Benevolence(Missions) expenditures by the church for 2017 totaled $43,073.36 which was almost 15%
of the total General Fund expenditures!
