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Recycle Your Used Batteries at Sardis
The Sardis "battle to keep batteries out of landfills" continues! Please bring your used batteries to our battery collection kiosk in the hallway between the Library and the Nursery in the Education Hall. When we recycle dead batteries, the materials and chemicals used to make batteries can be reused to make other products. Consider this: batteries that are thrown away and end up in landfills take 100 years to decompose!
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Recycle Your E-Waste At Providence Day School April 23-26
Our neighbor, Providence Day School, is hosting an e-waste collection April 23-26. They have invited us to take part in the collection. All brands and conditions of electronics like computers, computer accessories, tablets, flat screen TVs, home audio and theater equipment, video gaming systems, cameras, hard drives, and power cords will be accepted. Donation Drop-off: Turn into the main entrance of Providence Day School and take an immediate right turn onto a deck where there will be a marked dumpster. Please do not bring e-waste to Sardis Presbyterian.
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Plastic Caps & Lids Recycling Project
We are partnering with the Sardis Weekday School to collect plastic caps so they can be recycled into benches for the SWS playground and the Sardis Prayer Garden. Bring your plastic caps to the green collection bin in the hallway behind the library in the Education Hall. Click here to view the types of caps accepted.
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Room In The Inn Season Hosts 498 Neighbors
Thank you, Sardis, for another successful RITI season. With the help of our new RITI partners at Matthews Presbyterian, Trinity Presbyterian and South Meck Presbyterian, we hosted almost 500 neighbors in the Sardis House this season - ages ranging from 2 months old to 75 years old. That is a lot of warm beds, delicious meals, warm showers and clean clothes, plus great entertainment for our neighbors. Volunteers helped our neighbors celebrate Valentine's Day, Super Bowl Sunday, St. Patrick's Day, and an early Easter. One of the volunteer teams even provided a foot washing experience for our neighbors.
It takes many volunteers to make this program work - especially after we added a third night of hosting this season. Faithful RITI volunteers:
- Recruited and led new volunteers
- Drove the bus in to pick-up and drop-off neighbors
- Greeted our neighbors and helped them settle in with a warm meal
- Stayed overnight with our neighbors to provide fellowship and help with any needs
- Took care of laundry pick-up and deliveries
- Sorted and distributed sheets and towels
- Provided meals for our neighbors
- Made beds in the Sardis House
- Made special cards for our guests and decorations for seasonal celebrations
- Provided handmade scarves and hats for our neighbors
All of these special touches provide such a warm welcome and environment for our neighbors who are experiencing great hardship in their lives. So much so that we hosted repeat neighbors with one neighbor spending 9 nights in the Sardis House and another 3 neighbors spending 8 nights each at Sardis.
How do we begin to say thank you for all you have done to make this program the best it can be? Thank you for your support, Sardis!
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Leviticus 19:18, The Lord commanded us to "Love your neighbor as yourself". You have done just that, even when tough uncomfortable situations occurred. For that we are all grateful! | |
Families Forward Charlotte Essential Basket Drive | |
Thank you, Sardis Family! The Families Forward Charlotte Essential Basket Drive held in February had such great support from all of you. The WAM children were able to pack 20 trashcans and large bags full of cleaning supplies. Your financial donations and additional items provided helped us put together 4 additional baskets - allowing us to provide for 24 families! Thank you for caring about these deserving families. | |
High School Mission Retreat to Charleston, SC | |
During the February High School Retreat to Charleston, our team volunteered with Hope to Home - an organization that provides furniture and other home necessities to folks who have recently moved into housing out of homelessness. Our group was able to pack and deliver furniture to five different Charleston families, helping to make their new housing feel a little bit more like home. | |
Adult Mission Trip to Calvert City, KY..........................Jewell Leslie | |
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Two and a half years ago, Western Kentucky experienced an E-4 tornado. With winds of 190 mph and a width of one mile, it remained on the ground for over 165 miles, killing 57, injuring 533 and destroying thousands of homes and businesses in its’ wake.
That is what brought Sardis Presbyterian to team up with Trinity Presbyterian to form a mission team to serve with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance in Calvert City, Kentucky, the first week of March.
When we headed to Kentucky, most of us didn’t know if we had anything to offer at all to a community still rebuilding after a tornado, but our bodies and hearts were in for whatever was asked of us. Each of us came away knowing that we, individually and as a group, had learned some new things, both physical and emotional, and that we had made a difference.
We mentioned several times on our trip that this was a transformational experience. Personal transformation is how we change aspects of who we are, what we do, and the life we lead. Not one of us is the same person as the one who left Charlotte to go to Calvert City. This trip made a significant impact on all of us. We were proud to be a part of a denomination that would contribute a substantial donation to rebuild homes and lives. We were encouraged by the thought of 12 people keeping a church in a small town in Kentucky active and engaged in the community. We were astounded by the courage and the positive attitude of the homeowner who had suffered many physical challenges in addition to losing all of her belongings and lifelong memories. And we were delighted to develop new Presbyterian friendships. During this trip we witnessed the impact that Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and the local community had on one another.
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July 21-August 11: Pool For School Tools Drive
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Sardis Presbyterian Church is Recertified as a PC(USA) Earth Care Congregation
Sardis Presbyterian Church was certified as an Earth Care Congregation by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s Presbyterian Hunger Program through February 2025. The Earth Care Congregation certification is designed to recognize churches that make the commitment to take seriously God’s charge to “till and keep” the garden.
This status speaks to the serious commitment that Sardis Presbyterian Church has made to care for God’s earth. To become an Earth Care Congregation, this congregation affirmed an Earth Care Pledge to integrate environmental practices and thinking into their worship, education, facilities, and outreach.
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Started in 2010 by the PC(USA), the goal of this program is to inspire churches to care for God’s earth in a holistic way, through integrating earth care into all aspects of their church life. The Earth Care Congregation certification honors churches that make that commitment and encourages others to follow their example.
Sardis Presbyterian Church is just one of the 331 churches in our denomination that chose to dedicate themselves to intentional care of God’s earth this year. This congregation’s activities and commitment brings hope to their community and indeed to the world. We believe that (Name) Presbyterian Church will inspire others to respond intentionally to God’s call to care for the earth,” says Jessica Maudlin, Associate for Sustainable Living and Earth Care Concerns for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
For more information about (Name) Presbyterian Church’s earth care program visit the Earth Care page on our website. For more information on the Earth Care Congregations program visit the PC(USA) website.
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