Mission Outreach Commission

Burundi Summer Mission: June 30 - July 14

Matthew 19:14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Please pray daily. Lord let your glory be revealed and protect and inspire the Burundi Summer Mission team: Thomas Donaldson, Elizabeth Dougherty, Martha Dougherty, Audra Gibson, Abby Grady, Susan Grady, Bob Lawrence, Newman Lawrence, Will Henry Lawrence, Liz Lipscomb, Walker Marion, Robby Marion, Susie Morrison, Charlotte Neyle, Linda Neyle, Eliza Tew, and Ann Catherine Thornley that all may know and share the power of your love.

St. Michael’s Healing Mission to Zhytomir, Ukraine
Thursday, October 1—Sunday, October 11, 2009

Adrienne Aimar
Jean Corbett
Johnnie Corbett
Greg Johnsman, St. Johns, Johns Island
Becky Lind
Wood Marchant
Bradford Marshall
Peggy Reeves
David Richardson
Marty Richardson
Weezi Shaw
Barbara Simmons
Ned Simmons
Michael Smith
Margie Williams, St. Judes, Walterboro

HALOS Back to School
We will be collecting school supplies for abused and neglected children in the foster care system through HALOS (Helping and Lending Others Support).

Please bring new school supplies to the church. We will have a collection box in the Narthex on Sunday July 19, 26 and August 2. Items needed include:pens(red and blue), paper, pencils (regular and colored), markers, scissors, glue, glue sticks, rulers, boxes of tissues, hand sanitizer, socks, underwear and belts.

Thank you for helping these children have a good start to the new school year. Any questions call Noel Kunes 588-6262 or Barbara Simmons 588-0296.

Rural Mission Seafood Jamboree 2009
All dates are Tuesdays
July 14 - Choir
July 21 - St. Michael’s Staff
July 28 - Mingles
Groups should arrive at Rural Mission by 6:00 PM. A team of 8 to 10 seems optimal. Ms. Viola Moore, the coordinator of the Seafood Jamboree, requests a call the day prior, if possible, to let her know about how many are coming. She can be reached at 768-1720.

The Messenger from June 21 & 28, 2009

Burundi Projects
Support for Burundi Mission – The Youth Mission to Burundi departs Charleston on June 30th. Three specific opportunities remain for you to support this mission. The first is through a newly begun drive to collect UV Protective Sunglasses to provide for the people of Burundi. Collection boxes can be found in the loggia and the church office. The second is through the closed bid auction of the African Quilts hanging in the loggia. Bids are accepted through Saturday, June 27th. Finally, cards have been made from an original charcoal sketch by Renee Smith Ettline, inspired from photographs of children taken on the first Burundi mission of 2008. Packages of eight cards with envelopes are available for purchase from members of this summer’s Youth Mission team.

Rural Mission Seafood Jamboree 2009
All dates are Tuesdays
June 23 - The Gate
June 30 - Vestry
July 14 - Choir
July 21 - St. Michael’s Staff
July 28 - Mingles
Groups should arrive at Rural Mission by 6:00 PM. A team of 8 to 10 seems optimal. Ms. Viola Moore, the coordinator of the Seafood Jamboree, requests a call the day prior, if possible, to let her know about how many are coming. She can be reached at 768-1720.

A Ministry at Bishop Gadsden
June is St. Michael’s month at Bishop Gadsden, an Episcopal Retirement Center on Johns Island. Every Friday during the month of June, we sponsor a “Happy Hour” from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Cloister, the skilled nursing center and another from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Myers Hall, the assisted living center. (Technically, that would be “Happy Hours”).

Here’s the bottom line: Cora Mueller needs your help with food and/or your presence on the 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th of June. Please, pick up the telephone right now and give Cora a call at 766 5441. It is a wonderful time with appreciative friends.

Meals on Wheels
We are headed into the “vacation season.” Fellow parishioners with time to deliver meals every other week will be taking vacations to the mountains or beach. However, the people that receive those meals will not be vacationing. They will still need to receive those meals at noon—every other week.

The delivery teams need your support. How about riding with and delivering meals with one of the “old hands” to learn the route so that, when vacation time does get here, you can step in and cover for one of the members of a delivery team? It’s a great idea and, before the thought grows cold, pick up the telephone and call Cora Mueller at 766 5441. Tell her that you would love to be a “back-up”.