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There are multiple initiatives connected to the Peace and Justice Ministry and our partner ministries that can use our time, our talents, and our treasures during this season of giving. Thank you to all who stopped by our booths at The Ministry Fair t6o be connected. Contact David Harpenau 812-379-2642 or jjhdah@sbcglobal.net for more information or to be connected to the coordinators of these initiatives.
Here are just a few highlights from Our Top Ten List:
1. Consider becoming a Trusted Mentor for the program Changing Lives Forever through our St. Vincent de Paul conference. Mentors provide help and encouragement as program graduates implement the plans they developed to make positive change in their lives.
2. Participate in the Giving Tree at St. Bartholomew. Donate funds to be used, plan to shop for children on the list, help with deliveries, perhaps work together with a friend.
3. Care For Our Common Home, learn about simple ways to save energy in our homes, recycle, and work towards equity for all in the climate change crises.
4. Friends of Haiti Gift Certificates support independent and healthy living, and education within our twin parish St. Anne. Certificates are for clean water, SOIL, goats to raise, as well as many other needs.
5. Friends of Haiti Sponsored Students provide school tuition, supplies and uniforms to enable Haitians to attend school or university for advanced training. Due to worsening financial and safety challenges in their country, young people in Haiti have had an even more difficult time affording school. Additional support at Christmas is most welcome.
6. Love Chapel/Ecumenical Assembly has experienced an ever-greater strain on resources for their food pantries. Providing food staples for families as well as a hot meal each night of the week has been a long-standing point of pride in our community, but current conditions have created an even more critical need.
7. A Hot Meal is offered every Sunday at St. Bartholomew Parish. Volunteer to assist on a regular basis (usually four times per year as part of a team), or add your name to a list of substitutes as needed. Meals are prepared and served every Sunday from 3:30 to about 6:30 PM.
8. Watch the bulletin for the dates of the next Blood Drive in May 2023, and volunteer to assist if possible. Blood donations are critical to the health and emergency needs of our community, and are literally a gift of life! Consider becoming a donor.
9. Follow the spring campaign of Bread For The World’s Offering of Letters when St. Bartholomew joins with many other churches in the diocese as well as churches of other faiths to advocate for support for in eliminating hunger nationally and internationally including support for food security among those impacted by rising prices and limited resources. In the meantime, advocate on your own through their website and action items.
a. Contact: Bread For The World, bread.org/act/advocate/
10. Parishioners are needed to serve as members of the Peace and Justice Ministry and are always welcome. The Ministry serves a planning and communication function, coordinates the specific programs currently being offered.
a. Contact: David Harpenau 812-379-2642 or jjhdah@sbcglobal.net
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