Thanksgiving 2006
Dear Parish Family:
This past year has been exciting and very busy for the St. John's
Outreach Program. Every day we see so many opportunities to help
our brothers and sisters in need. We have been fortunate, through
your donations and prayers, to achieve the following results and
many others, too numerable to list:
- We have provided over 7,800 food boxes through the St. John's
Food Bank. This figure represents over 70,200 lbs of food going
to walk-ins, homebound and migrant families.
- Collected, sorted, and distributed close to 7,000 pounds of
clothing, and household items.
- Coordinated furniture donations and requests for more than
120 families.
- Provided over $60,000 in rent and utility emergency assistance.
- Distributed over 675 Holiday meal baskets. (Easter, Thanksgiving,
Christmas)
- Collected, sorted, and delivered more than 2,000 Christmas
presents through the Jesse Tree program.
- Provided almost 100 backpacks filled with school supplies to
those who would not be able to start the school year with these
necessary items.
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- Provided monthly donations to Gabriel
Project, Life Choices Pregnancy Center, Safe Shelter of St.Vrain Valley,
and the Our Center. These are the highlights of our ministry, but
certainly not the whole story. It doesn't speak to the thousands of
hours put in by our dedicated volunteers, to make these efforts possible.
Also not mentioned are the direct donations to Outreach by the parish
through the support of our Gift Shop and the 2 Cents a Meal program.
We have been blessed with a Pastor whose vision has brought these
responses to life, and the entire Parish Staff, who, at one time or
another, has contributed their time and efforts.
We are looking forward
to another successful year of giving to those who look to our faith
community for help. Because of the increased number of families that
we serve weekly, we are actively seeking a larger facility for our
food bank. We have recently reorganized our current facility to handle
the increased numbers of food baskets however; we are running out
of room to provide clothing and household goods. We are considering
ideas such as supporting remote food distribution centers and having
our food bank open at other times during the week. We are continuing
to seek new avenues to spread our stewardship to those in need.
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