SEPTEMBER 2018
goodnews! Sharing the good news of Christ
Vision | 40,000 ft. view By Joshua Brown, Senior Pastor
L
ast ministry year, we focused heavily on growing UP and IN.
110,000 hours served 500 people participating in
Our Welfare Committee will count items to go toward our local tally,
St. Lukes Days of Service
and Orphan Grain Train will track
Starting Sept. 1, we’re diving head
(the next one is scheduled at
worldwide items donated.
first into OUT, serving our community,
the Food Bank of Northern
and we’re going to need everyone’s
Nevada on Oct. 13)
support!
Our goals: From 9/1/18 to 8/31/2019, we have set some ambitious, but achievable goals:
7,300 items donated locally through welfare projects 3,650 items donated
We encourage you to wear your St. Lukes Growing Out t-shirt whenever you serve in the community, especially when serving with a group of St. Lukes members, and definitely
worldwide through Orphan
when serving in a St. Lukes Day of
Grain Train
Service project! We have plenty of
Tracking of hours served will be by
t-shirts available, in case you haven’t
individuals. Any time you volunteer
received one yet, or if you’d like to
in the community*, put in one cent
invite friends to serve with us. T-shirts
for each hour served. Example: if
will be available at our Fall Kick Off,
you participate in St. Lukes Day of
Sunday, Sept. 9, or contact megan@
Service, and it’s a 5 hour event, each
stlukesreno.org.
person who served would put a nickel
Please get involved, encourage
in the bin in the Narthex. As the bin
all of our members and friends to get
fills up, we’ll count and roll the coins
involved, and starting Sept. 1, be sure
and provide updates on progress
to put your coins for hours served in
throughout the year. At the end of the
the receptacle in the Narthex so we
year, we hope to end up with $1,100 to can reach our goal of 110,000 hours.
*Examples of types of service:
donate. We plan to offer quarterly St.
Volunteering for the church
Lukes Day of Service projects. Each
(council meetings, choir rehearsal
organization we serve has a sign-
and performances, setting up for
in sheet, which we will use to track
services, events, etc.), volunteering at
attendance to reach our goal of 500
community events, attending board
people serving (that’s 125 serving at each event! Please invite your friends!
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