Mother's Day BBQ

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Advertise: Place church information/events in various newspapers. • Baby Ministry: Reach out and show support to families welcoming a new child into their family. • Chicken Barbeque (Mother's Day): In charge of overseeing all arrangements. • Church Float: Maintain the church float: update when needed, arrange to be in various parades, including staffing and driver, storage, etc. • Designate dollars allocated for mission work under Endowment Fund (amount varies per year) and decide how to allocate. • Evangelism: Promote St. Michael’s church, school, and childcare facilities in the community whenever and wherever possible. • Franklin Avenue Mission: Help with various areas such as meal preparation and serving; provide with donations of food and supplies, including personal care/clothing/furniture/appliances and household goods; help with activities, such as rolling silverware, as needed. Monitor $5,000 annual amount committed by St. Michael's for support. • Giving Tree at Christmas (contains tags for various amounts which can be removed and filled by congregation). • Help congregational members write Thrivent cards, through Thrivent, for many worthwhile projects: e.g., book bags for back-to-school; school and classroom supplies; food/supplies for needy families/organizations/food banks. • Home Visits: Monitor recent move-in’s to the community (one person should not go alone on home visits for safety reasons). • Hot Lunch Angel Program at St. Michael's School: Encourage people to participate as anonymous donors to pay it forward to purchase hot lunches for children who need help with funding. • Participate in Lenten Dinners: Obtain food and provide refreshments and desserts; help serve; cleanup. • Living Nativity, held at Immanual Lutheran-Frankentrost in December: Promote the Passion Drama through handouts, videotapes of past performances, etc. • Missionaries/Mission Organizations within LCMS: Sponsor/pray for individuals/families/groups (e.g., POBLO, Lutheran Bible Translators, etc.), including monetary donations at times, encouraging them to share stories/pictures of mission trips and speak to our congregation when in the area. Currently sponsoring a child from Hearts and Hands of Uganda. • Passion Drama: Overall support for the Passion Drama. Some years, an invitation to visit St. Michael’s was mailed to those located within a reasonable distance; this was discontinued due to lack of response. • Miscellaneous Projects sponsored in the past: o Blessings Bags (filled with school supplies, personal care items, etc.). o Small kits (filled with personal care items, food, socks/gloves, etc. to be handed out to homeless). o Buckets filled with cleaning supplies and bags with personal care items, etc. • Obtain grants from Endowment Fund for mission-type causes (e.g., food for Eastern District Food Bank; donation to a missionary, etc.). • Youth Group: Help with funding projects and overall support. Have also participated with them in filling blessings bags at one of their meetings.