HELP FIGHT HUNGER!

Support Our Local Food Shelves         

Our Ministry of the Month for February will be the food shelves at ACBC and CEAP. ACBC—The Anoka Brotherhood Council—provides food and clothing to those in need two days and two evenings each week.. CEAP --the Community /emergency Assistance Program—based in Blaine and Brooklyn Park, provides a variety of human services, Monday-Friday, including a back-to-school program, a clothing closet, food shelf, emergency transportation and senior services, including Measl on Wheels. Both were organized by churches to serve people in need in our area. Each year the demand on our local food shelves increases and use in 2009 was greater than ever before. An anonymous donor has agreed to again provide matching funds for all donations of food and money received in March (so we collect donations in February and send them in during March). This makes our contributions go farther than at any other time of the year.

 

Although food donations are greatly appreciated, contributions of money are greatly needed to round out the supplies of food available at the food shelves. The food shelves can buy food at greatly discounted prices; as much as 90% less than grocery store prices, so monetary donations go a long way.

Food and monetary donations will be split between ACBC and CEAP.

 

 

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Feed My Starving Children

At Feed My Starving Children warehouses children and adults hand-pack meals specifically

formulated for malnourished children and ships the meals to nearly 70 countries around the world. OC Ministries routinely includes some of this food in shipments to Sierra Leone and Liberia.

We will be packaging food for Feed My Starving Children at the Coon Rapids location (401 93rd Ave NW) on Wednesday February 8 at 9:30 am. Look for a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board.
 

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                             Imagine No Malaria 

Imagine No Malaria is the United Methodist church-wide effort to overcome malaria in Africa and eliminate deaths caused by this

preventable disease—a goal world leaders hope to accomplish by 2015. Our efforts may have started with sending nets, but they do not stop there. In addition to preventing malaria with bed nets, eliminating deaths caused by this disease will require educating communities and health care workers, developing health care infrastructure and making advancements in health care communications. Imagine No Malaria will create a stronger and more broad-based community health infrastructure to help The United Methodist Church in the fight against diseases of poverty.

 

It costs $10 to save a life. And our church has made a commitment to save 2500 lives! Our Sunday School children got us started last fall and have already begun to save lives. This year, everyone will have an opportunity to prevent malaria and save lives. 

Leia Williams, the field coordinator for Imagine No Malaria, will speak at all services on Sunday, February 19. 

 

To find out more about Imagine No Malaria and the worldwide effort to eliminate it, you may go to this link:  http://www.imaginenomalaria.org 

 

UMCA supports these organizations both financially and through volunteerism:

Alexandra House: Providing emergency shelter for abused women in the area.

Community Emergency Assistance Program:  The local food shelf in Anoka.

CROP Walk:  Annual fund raiser for hunger relief. Hosted by our church each October.

Family Table: Area churches furnishing an evening meal each Saturday to those in need.  Four times a year at UMCA. (Check with our church office for the next one!)

Feed My Starving Children:  Packing food for shipment to several developing countries.

Free 2B!:  Accepts cars, repairs them and then donates them to eligible Anoka County residents.

Habitat-for-Humanity: Building low income homes in the area. 1-2 weeks each summer.

Lincoln School Families:  Offering assistance to families living close to the church.

Meals-On-Wheels:  Delivery of meals to senior citizens.  Several weeks a year.

Red Cross Bloodmobile

Salvation Army bell ringers

Stepping Stones: Homeless shelter in Anoka

Toys for Tots:  Collects toys for needy children in Anoka County

O. C. Ministries:  Building and supplying UM-related classrooms, clinics and churches in Jamaica, Liberia and Sierra Leone.  Collections twice a year.  Work team trips once or twice a year.

Disaster relief teams to Fargo, Iowa, New Orleans, etc.  As needed.

United Methodist Committee On Relief:  Disaster relief throughout the world.

Paul Webster:  United Methodist missionary in Zambia specializing in agriculture.

Sierra Leone Annual Conference of the UMC District Superintendent funding:  Providing assistance for effective church and district administration.