Each
month Old Stone Church designates one mission partner as our focus
of the month. All loose change in the offering plate that month will
go toward the selected project.
Our
Mission Focus for
July, 2008 is
Youth
Mission Trip
Over
the past few years members of Old Stone have participated in several
mission trips. Our youth went to Ashtabula to help serve meals and
repair homes with the other youth from the Presbytery of the Western
Reserve. Youth and adults traveled to the Gulf Coast with members of
Church of the Covenant to work under the direction of the
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance program repairing homes and
assisting with ongoing clean-up. Last summer several adults and
youth again joined members from Church of the Covenant to travel to
South Dakota to work with Re-Member on the Lakota Reservation.
On July 19, eleven members of Old Stone—four adults and seven
youth—will travel to Welch, West Virginia to assist with ongoing
repairs from floods several summers ago. Annette Woodyard and Willie
Brown are leading the group with support from Don Woodyard and Kate
Lukacs. Our team will be involved in general clean-up and some light
home repair. This is a very poor part of America and help is greatly
appreciated. On their only afternoon off, the group plans to tour a
cave.
Since the trip was originally planned, gas prices have soared. While
the chief chef at Indian Hills, where Annette Woodyard is head
nurse, has offered to provide all the food needed at wholesale
prices as well as make a contribution, our expenses are growing. The
Mission Committee is committed to encouraging and supporting mission
trips. Your coins in the offering plate this month will also help
make this trip possible.
Remember
to save the special
coupons labeled Box Tops for Education from General Mills and
Kimberly Clark products. A collection basket to receive the
coupons is located in the
Church Office. The Tremont Montessori Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) will redeem
the box tops for
school supplies for the students.
With our new commitment to Tremont Montessori, the Mission Committee
now has a solid mission direction which includes children through the
Old Stone Foundation and Tremont Montessori School, women in
transition, families facing homelessness, and the Goodrich-Gannett
Neighborhood House in Cleveland. Overseas we support the Stepping
Stones School's preschool program and teacher training program.
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Old Stone Mission Partners