December Special Benevolence Offering: Salvation Army
The monthly mission for December is a long-standing charity in York – the Salvation Army. It provides support – physical, emotional and spiritual – to those who need it most. This is done through various program such as: family emergency services, food pantry, worship services, Hispanic community services, and the learning and community centers. Thank you in advance for your generous support of this charity.
January Special Benevolence Offering: Mt. Zion’s Disaster Relief Fund
Mt. Zion established this fund over six years ago when the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina occurred in the same year. The purpose of this fund was to have money readily available when disaster struck and to be able to respond quickly. Money from this fund over the past several years has been sent to UCC churches in Ohio to help with water damage due to flooding, for hurricane relief in Nicaragua, relief efforts after the Haitian earthquake, to the Red Cross in York for assistance following major fires in the city and most recently designated to help alleviate the famine in Africa. Please consider a gift to the Disaster Relief Fund and help build a fund that will make the Mt. Zion congregation proactive instead of reactive when it comes to disasters. Your financial gift will help those struggling to survive, give them hope and be an answer to a prayer when disaster strikes.
Compassion Food Run
The Missions Committee’s last Compassion Food Run of this year is scheduled for Sunday, December 18th. This is one of the opportunities to help our friends and neighbors in the community who are less fortunate than us.
For those willing to help with this outreach program in our own community, sign-up sheets will be in the narthex beginning November 20th for volunteers to cook and to serve, as well as a sign-up sheet for individuals who wish to donate food items. If you volunteer to help with the cooking, please be at the church by 2:30 PM. Those that volunteer to serve the meal should be at the church by 4:30 PM.
We ask those who donate ground beef, to precook (brown) the beef before bringing it to the church.
As always, thank-you for your support of this community program. ~ The Missions Committee
Northeastern Food Pantry
In December we will be collecting Hamburger Helper and boxed potatoes in our grocery card to be donated to the Northeastern Food Pantry. In January we will be collecting juice and hot chocolate mix. Thank you for your generous ongoing support!
Church World Service Clean-Up Buckets
During the month of January, we will be collecting items to assemble Church World Service Clean-Up Buckets.
The supplies we collect will enable people to begin the overwhelming job of cleaning up after a flood, hurricane, tornado or other disaster. These buckets are used for disasters only in the United States. A list of needed items (per bucket) follows:
Five scouring pads
Seven sponges, assorted sizes
One scrub brush
Eighteen cleaning towels (reusable, like Easy Wipes®)
One 50-78 oz. box dry laundry detergent
One 12 oz. bottle of liquid concentrated household cleaner (like Lysol®)
One 25 oz. bottle liquid disinfectant dish soap (like Dawn®)
One Packages of 48-50 clothespins
Clotheslines, two 50 ft. or one 100 ft. per kit
Five dust masks
Two pairs latex gloves (like Playtex®)
One pair work gloves
28-bag roll of heavy-duty trash bags (30-45 gallon)
One 6-9 oz. bottle of insect repellent (pump, drops or lotion, not aerosol)
We can only send the items on the list, so please be specific in what you donate. Please note only the requested sizes for items will fit into the bucket. A sign-up sheet will be in the narthex. Each bucket costs $3.00 to ship. If you would like to make a monetary donation to help defray the shipping costs, a donation box is located in the narthex. Our goal is to fill ten (10) buckets!
Church World Service always has a great need for these clean-up buckets so we hope you will support this project to help our neighbors in the United States. Thank you.
The Missions Core Group
CROP Walk Results:
We had a Mt. Zion record of 29 Walkers including the following: Les & Doris Loucks, Red & Ellie Arnold, Ali & Joe Laughman, Diane Strine, The Tossey Family, The Grimes Family, Pastor Danielle, Sam, & Sari Dickey, Lou Loucks & Family, Kim Loucks, Amy Covert, Suzanne Skennonto, Nichole Beyer & Carlie Burk. These walkers raised $3,176 and note that this list includes some of Mt, Zion’s newest members, our daughter & daughter-in-law, our grandson, his wife and two daughters (our great granddaughters). It was a spectacular day for our walk and I am fairly certain that for the York City CROP walk we had the largest group of walkers and raised the most money to help the poor. Thank you to all the walkers and everyone that supported the walkers financially to help with their efforts to provide food and water to God’s poorest children. Les Loucks
All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Breakfast
Sign up for the All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Breakfast being held on Saturday, January 7, 2012 from 9 to 11 in the fellowship hall. In addition to pancakes you will receive sausage and orange juice. The cost is $7.00 for adults, $5.00 for children 3 to 12 and free for 2 and under. The proceeds benefit the upcoming Mission Trip to Cherry Creek, SD in July 2012 to help the Lakota Indians. This county has the lowest income per family in the United States with an average income of less than $5,000 per family. PLEASE support this Mission trip. Signup sheet is located in the west narthex.
Chop & Peel
We have Chop & Peel Monday, January 30 for Soup Kitchen January 31. Your help is appreciated as are all your donations. Keep watching for a signup sheet!
Thank you . . .
~ for your gifts to our September Special Benevolence Offering: York Association Micro-Lending Project. Receipts totaled $1,459.00
~ for your gifts to our Oct. 2 through 23 Special Benevolence Offering: Mt. Zion Mission Trip 2012. Receipts totaled $2,216.50.
~ for your gifts to our fifth Sunday in October Special Benevolence Offering: The UCC Christmas Fund. Receipts totaled $224.00.
~ for your gifts to our Neighbors in Need Offering. Receipts totaled $1,138.00.
Thank you to all of you who participated in our garden share. I hope all of you got to take advantage of the wonderful fresh vegetables. We also collected $35. The money collected will be used to purchase food for the Northeastern Food Pantry. Doris Loucks
Thank you for all the snacks and wonderful variety of food items, baby supplies, paper and household products for the Lehman Center. There is always a great need for those supplies. Thank you all the games and also the art and craft supplies. They will be a big help at Olivia's House for their Art Therapy program. Thank you so much for your generous support. The Mission Core Team