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Mission Core Update
Our three teams have been even busier than Santa's workers!
Camilla Dadey, Peter Winkler, Todd Kerschke, and Lee Hardt are taking the lead in a series of meetings with some of the most highly qualified environmental organizations in our area, in order to develop a more comprehensive plan for maintaining and improving the wooded part of our property. Their goal now is to present their plan to the Council and congregation by this spring. Part of their discovery is that we may be able to apply for significant grant monies to help accomplish our goal of caring responsibly for our lands and to provide an example of environmental stewardship for Deerfield.
You may have recently noticed two displays in the Gathering Space: An "Advent Calendar" of food gathered and organized by our Sunday School. The collected foods, used to fill in the days of Advent will be taken to One Deerfield Place as a form of "wintertime gleanings" that affords some continuity to an otherwise seasonal outreach activity. Our team of Love of Children team of Kate Huston, Terri Rogers, Aja Isble, and Jen not only educate, their students learn to reach out and touch the lives of others!
Last but not least, Jean Harris, Marge Magnani, Jen Holtz, Val Lemme, and Susan Morgan, are serving in multiple roles for our Love of Neighbor team. Jean is organizing and implementing our P.A.D.S. meal effort, Val has provided us with the mechanism for collecting used footwear that will enable the Kenwood Free Clinic pedorthic office to provide many of the homeless or underemployed and unemployed clients with shoes that they would not have.
Here's a picture I took a few weeks ago, of some of your generosity in action. You might appreciate knowing that all of the shoes you provided were received with smiles of thanks and appreciation - in a single morning.
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