Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Casco Bay Cluster Lenten Mission

End The Growling Campaign
 
One of the truly successful mission projects last year was the Casco Bay Area United Methodist Church “End the Growling” Campaign. Thousands of meals were packed and sent to various food distribution programs both here in the state of Maine and elsewhere in the country. Spearheaded by Cori Heatley and others from Thornton Heights UMC and enlisting the support of the other churches in the cluster, including Peoples, both the financial needs of the program and the food needs provided through Outreach Inc. was carried out with great success.

At Peoples we are a little late getting on board this year, but with a little help we can help to support this year’s effort. Looking locally the program has a goal of packing at least 32,000 meals and raise $7800.

At Peoples we do have one team of nine that is looking for additional members of folks that will meet at Elm Street Methodist Church on April 11, at noon, to begin the packing. If others are interested we could possibly put more teams together. Your commitment on that date will be at least 2 hours. If you are interested in joining the team please let Art Tordoff know as soon as possible. We do need to get our list of teams and members in ASAP.  Do need to get the information and first donations to Thornton Heights by Sunday afternoon.

If you are unable to make the commitment to packing we encourage you to consider a financial commitment of support. There will be a basket to receive any financial donations at the back of the sanctuary beginning Sunday, March 8, 2015.

$.25 donated will pay for one meal! Each team should be able to pack 150 meals per hour at $37.50: 300 in 2 hours at $75. 450 in 3 hours at $112.50: 600 in 4 hours at $150.00----or more! Won’t you be a part of the team by joining the packers and/or placing a “Second Mile Gift of Money” in the basket this Sunday!

And by all means PRAY for the success of this mission throughout the Cluster!

 

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