Outreach Meeting - Thursday, June 5

The next Outreach meeting will be on Thursday, June 5th at 7 p.m. at the Parish House on the second floor. This will be the last Outreach meeting until Thursday, September 4th.  Anyone interested in our various Outreach projects and would like to participate is welcome to come and join us.  If you have any questions about the Outreach ministry, please call Jim Lambert at 410-795-8319 or e-mail at laaambertjt@yahoo.com.

Collection For Our Troops  

If you have a loved one or know of someone overseas in the Armed Forces and would like the Outreach ministry to ship care packages to them, we need their names and addresses, along with your names as an introduction.  Please call Jim Lambert at 410-795-8319 or e-mail laaambertjt@yahoo.com.

Thank You From SPC Daven Pantohan, Iraq

Thank you very much for the box of goodies you sent me.  No words can express how special it is to get anything from anyone back home.  Mail call is the best time for a soldier over here.  To get a package from family is great, but to get one from a complete stranger is something entirely different.  It is different because it reminds us that we have others besides our family who care about us over here.  When we see the top story in the news is about some celebrity or some kind of scandal or something like that and we see little to no stories of the results we make over here, it is sometimes easy to get the impression that people forget about us here.  Anyway, I greatly appreciate the package and be sure to thank your church and everyone there who prays for me back in Maryland.  Especially Kathy and Bob and my friend Tessa Barnett.  Thank you all very much.  Sincerely, SPC Daven Pantohan

Collection For Our Troops

The Outreach Commission is taking up a collection for Our Troops.  Some of the suggested items include paperback books, playing cards, magazines, crossword puzzle books, sunscreen, lip balm, socks, batteries, insect spray, beef jerky, oodles of noodles, chips, trail mix, nuts, hard candy, wet wipes and toiletry items (no aerosol items or chocolate).  Anything you can give will be much appreciated!  Please remember that they are always happy to receive cards and letters as well.

In addition to the items for our Troops, we are collecting small toys, such as beanie babies and colored pencils for the children of these torn countries.  Please leave your items in a bag marked "Troops" in one of the baskets at Church or in the bin at the Parish House. 

Collection of Used Ink Cartridges, Cell Phones and Eyeglasses

The Outreach Commission is collecting used ink cartridges (we ship these to fund the Food for the Poor program), used eyeglasses (we give those to the Lion's Club to recycle for the people who cannot afford them) used cell phones with the ac and/or dc adapters (we give these to the Senior Center to be refurbished and set to 911)  These are given at no cost to the battered women and senior citizens in Carroll County (with the cell phones, please attach a note with your name and address in order to get a letter for tax purposes).  Please leave them in the baskets at the entrance of the Church or in a bin at the Parish House.  This is an ongoing project that we collect for throughout the year.