Year of Service Update
#8
March 26, 2010
|
|
Dear St. Andrew's Family & Friends,
Thank you for all of your Year of Service Reports. I hope all of you had a wonderful Spring Break.
I am continually impressed with the creative ways to serve which I see coming in each week through your reports. I believe many of you were already serving and may have not realized how important your service is to others. My hope for this Year of Service is that your eyes will open not only to new ways to serve but also to see what an impact your time and effort really can have on our community.
Remember, send in those pictures and keep on serving :)
|
Passing It On
Joy Hargett and her husband Ken recently bought about $60 worth of garden soil for her mom. When she tried to pay them for it, they asked her to donate the
money to a charity instead - for a man from her community who has
breast cancer and has limited insurance funds. She did, along with her
own generous donation.
|
Service in Action
- One member of our congregation gave a package of tuna to a homeless man on Scarsdale.
- Christine Liberatore gave a glucose meter and Diabetes information for free to an undocumented alien.
- Myrna and Larry Harbuck met a couple, Dennis and Dulce Wolfe, in Belize
that live there in San Pedro.
Dulce is suffering from some sort of respiratory
ailment, that a couple of weeks ago
Almost took her life. Myrna and Larry were alerted to
this by a group of friends that keep in touch.
They contributed to a fund that is paying Dulce's
way to Merida, Mexico to have diagnostics
Done and hopeful treat and cure her.
|
Youth Group Feeds the Homeless
Thursday, March 18th a group of 9 from the youth
program at St. Andrew's took time out of their Spring Break to create
and deliver 45 sack lunches to the homeless population around Houston's
Medical Center. Partnering with Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church's "Way
Station" Program, we were able to deliver every lunch after piling into
2 cars and making the journey. All lunches, consisted of:
a sandwich  a piece of fruit a cookie and a cold bottle of water
In
challenging our group to ask the question: "Can having lunch with
someone make their day?", this ministry was a great way to meet the
needs of our neighbors around the city.
If you
missed this opportunity, we are going back on 4/2/2010 and currently
have 3 cars. The event is open to grades 5-12 and will begin and end at
St. Andrew's from 9am-3:30pm. An RSVP is required by 3/30/2010. You can
RSVP by emailing Ryan Perry at ryan@standrewspearland.org.
|
 Now Entering the Mission Field
Did you see our new mission signs while leaving then parking lots? To
emphasize our Year of Service, we are reminding ourselves that our
mission is in the community, the region, the country and the world (see
Acts 1:8.) Let us know about your mission work big and small.
|
local churches who will assist with water in times of
disaster within the Diocese of Texas. Go to 