October is Food Pantry month
Our church will be accepting donations not covered by food stamps, such as:
soaps
detergents (not large bottles)
toilet paper
paper towels.
A basket will be available to receive your donation throughout the month of October. Money is always needed to go into an account that helps
clients with medicine, electric bills, rent, etc. Checks made out to Falmouth Congregational Church UCC with Falmouth Food Pantry in the memo line will be tax deductible. Word is that the need is growing and will continue. Any and all of these will be greatly appreciated. Contact Joanne Varga for more information.
Project Feed - Donate your Shaw's receipts
Project Feed is an emergency food pantry to families in the Portland area who are referred to Project Feed by city and social service agencies, Salvation Army and Ingraham. The Ministry of Justice and Outreach will be collecting Shaw's receipts, which in turn, Shaw's will give $1 for every $100 worth of receipts to the project. A family in crisis may receive a week's worth of perishable and non-perishable food once in four months.
Look for a pink box in Fellowship Hall to collect your receipts. So, when you bring your offering think to bring your Shaw's receipts as well. Thanks for caring for others in this way. If you have any questions contact Joanne Varga.
Preble Street Soup Kitchen
On the third Sunday of every month, from 11:45am-1:15pm we are responsible for recruiting 14 volunteers to serve at the Preble Street Soup Kitchen. Children 8 years through 8th grade are welcome to serve if they are accompanied by a parent. High school youth may serve and receive community service hours for volunteering. We also provide brownies for dessert on the Sundays that we serve. You may bake brownies and deliver them to the church kitchen on or before the Sunday morning we are scheduled to serve.
The next opportunity to volunteer at the soup kitchen is Sunday, October 18. Please contact the church office if you are interested in helping.
Mission Booklets
Copies are available in the Fellowship Hall. The
booklet contains mission projects which are supported by Falmouth
Congregational Church through donations or volunteerism.
State Street Clothes Closet
Donations of clothes, shoes, linens as well as pans and dishes are taken to the State
Street Clothes Closet. This is an ongoing mission. Please leave
your donations in sutrdy bags inthe hallway opposite the choir room. Thank you to Ted Vail for delivering the items
to State Street.
Old Cell Phones
There will be a box in Fellowship Hall to drop off old cell phones you no longer use. The phones will be given to the Falmouth Lions Club. Any questions, please contact Diana Wescott. Thanks.
Hearing
Aids
Donate hearing aids and their batteries to the same collection
box as the eyeglasses. This box is located
on
a table in the Fellowship Hall. Roger and Liz Fagan will refurbish
the hearing aids and donate them to the hearing impaired in
the Dominican Republic.
Eyeglasses
We accept used eyeglasses and dontate them to Falmouth Vision Center where they are refurbished and sent to those in need. Drop your glasses off inthe basket located on the sink counter in Fellowship Hall.
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