Outreach Team – February 2024 Newsletter Article
Our members include Chris Kollen as lead, Carol Buuck, Phyllis Teager, Patty Clymer, and Laurie Acker.
We are planning new and exciting projects this coming year. If you’d like more information about becoming a member of Outreach, contact Chris Kollen at lizzykollen@comcast.net or at 520-419-7475.
Marana Community Food Bank
The Marana Food Bank would like to request that we collect pasta, spaghetti sauce (not in glass), cereal, crackers, mashed potatoes, canned tuna or chicken, and canned fruits.
Let’s help re-stock the shelves after the holidays so they can continue to serve our neighbors.
Donated food can be placed in the wooden cabinet located in the Narthex. Please remember that the food bank cannot accept any food items that has been opened/used or expired. Also, please no glass containers.
If you would like to donate and keep your gift for the needy of Marana, you can send a check to:
MFB-CRC
c/o Sahuarita Food Bank
PO Box 968
Sahuarita, AZ 85629
Please make checks payable to Marana Food Bank – Community Resource Center or MFB-CRC.
You can also donate online at mfb-crc.org.
Your monetary gift goes a long way. Every $10 helps provide 50 meals.
Continuing Activities
Butler’s Pantry - Looking for a few volunteers!
As a response to the Lord of Grace Strategic Plan and mission statement, the Outreach
Team decided to be intentional about serving those in our surrounding community. That
is how our partnership with Roadrunner Elementary was born. One of the ways we
support them is with donations and volunteer support at their wonderful community
resource center, Butler’s Pantry! The pantry has been open for a little over 6 months now serving children and families in this special community. A big THANK YOU to the team of LOG folks who have been helping make this resource center a reality for Roadrunner School.
We are looking for a few more eager members to join our group. Lord of Grace
volunteers are needed to work a Monday evening or a Saturday morning or a work day
(to sort and organize donations) each month. We travel out in teams and usually
carpool from church. We will also be collecting specific items throughout the year. If
you are interested in helping volunteer with this ongoing outreach project please give
Phyllis Teager a call or email at 520-906-1837 or pteager3@comcast.net. You can also
check out the volunteer sign-up schedule and pictures of the pantry on the bulletin
board near the fellowship hall.
Upcoming Activities
Feed My Starving Children
Thank you to everyone who signed up to work packing food for Feed My Starving Children on February 10th, from 8:00AM to 10:00AM at Oro Valley Church of the Nazarene. You should receive an email from Oro Valley Church of the Nazarene as the event gets closer. If you missed the deadline to sign-up, you still can! You’ll need to go to the following website, https://ovcn.church/fmsc/ to sign-up. If you want to volunteer the same time as other volunteers from Lord of Grace, make sure you select the same date and time. Thank you!
Baby Care Kits
Lutheran World Relief is one of the agencies we chose for our international involvement (in addition to Feed My Starving Children) as we realigned some of our Outreach activities to be in line with the Lord of Grace strategic plan and mission statement. Lutheran World Relief has several ways to get involved as hands-on service. These include holding drives to collect kits – personal hygiene kits, baby care kits, school supplies kits, and fabric kits; or make quilts. Once the items for the kits are collected and assembled, they are sent to one of the LWR warehouses for processing and shipping overseas. They distribute care kits and quilts to 14 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. We’ve decided to hold our first drive for LWR Baby Care Kits and have as a goal 10 baby care kits. The Baby Care Kits drive will run from February 4th-February 25th. We’ll assemble the kits together and send them the beginning of March. We plan on having a display with tags, sign-up sheet, and a flyer after both services on February 4th.