St. James - Bellevue UMC Outreach Committee

05/04/2022

I am the author on this page. Could someone please help me change it so I can give it to Mike W now ?

03/25/2020

No doubt you’ve seen the commercials for ABCMouse, the online learning software for kids from Glendale-based Age of Learning. They are giving now away free access to their educational software to students affected by school closures. Recently, they invited me to their offices for a behind the scen...

03/18/2020

We wrote and delivered 46 letters to our Members of Congress, about equally divided between requests for summer lunch funding and global maternal and child nutrition. It was fewer than we have done before, but we had a low turnout for church and a couple distractions!! Thanks and blessings to all who wrote! And I know some of you sent letters on your own. Thanks for those too!

03/08/2020

It's Bread for the World Offering of Letters time again.

This year letters are focused on either a) global nutrition, specifically maternal and child nutrition in that precious first 1000 days of life (conception till second birthday) and /or b) summer lunches for U.S. kids and families. You can get LOTS of information on the Bread website: www.bread.org/ol

We are asking you to actively participate in this process:

1) Go to the bread.org/ol website and download the attached sample letters file.

2) Personalize your letter (once you figure out how you want to begin and end, you can copy that to your other letters). Form letters carry little weight, and may not be counted at all. Make it YOUR letter! Say why funding for nutrition is important to you.

A great option is to do a short hand-written (legible) letter, including just the most salient points.

3) Address them to Rep. Fortenberry OR Rep. Bacon... AND to Senators Deb Fischer and Ben Sasse. Don't worry about inside addresses.
Be sure you put YOUR name AND ADDRESS on them for verification that you are their constituent. Add your email if you like.

4) Print them and SIGN them.

5) Bring them to church on Sunday March 15th.

6) Put them in the BREAD for the World OFFERING of LETTERS envelope on the information tables.

7) Join in a prayer of dedication for the offering of letters sent in from our church.

I will sort, count, and deliver (or mail) all letters to each of these local/NE offices. (Mailing to the DC office slows them down too much, as they have to pass the "sniff" test.)

Your voice is powerful. You can help prevent HALF of the under age 5 deaths in poor countries, as they are related to malnutrition. And/or you can urge more funding for feeding our school kids during summers when they don't eat at school.
--
Frances C Moore -- on behalf of Outreach and Bread for the World
402-415-7705 cell/rext

Bread for the World’s Offering of Letters to Congress engages churches, campuses, and other faith communities in writing personalized letters to Congress. Each year, for the focus of the campaign, we choose specific legislation or a legislative emphasis that can make a real difference to people st...

03/03/2020

Look who's helping this year at Stephen's Center!
Jan. 5 Chancel Choir
Feb. 2 Outreach Committee
Mar. 1 UMW Volunteers
Apr. 5 Susanna Circle
May 3 UMM
June 7 St James Youth
July 5 Lorence-Newton Families
August 2 -- STILL NEED A GROUP
Sept. 6 UMW Volunteers
Oct. 4 UMM
Nov. 1 Lorence-Newton Families
Dec. 6 St James Youth

We thank all these volunteers for their time, contributions, and effort!

03/26/2019

This year, we had 49 responses to our environmental stewardship survey.
Our average was 70%, higher than 2 years ago, when it was 65%! Yaa!
We are best at general recycling and less furnace and AC use.
We are pretty good at limiting single-use plastics and limiting food waste.
We need to learn more about using the "Orange" bags to re-cycle the difficult plastics.
Some might want to learn more about food choices, such as buying local and eating less meat.

03/26/2019

Amidst all the focus on flooding, we still wrote/signed 69 letters to Members of Congress for our annual Bread for the World Offering of Letters, asking them to advance global nutrition, especially for mothers and children.

03/11/2019

Blood Drive on April 4th: The American Red Cross will be at St James West on Thursday, April 4th for a blood drive. As Christians, we work for mercy and justice. Giving blood is high up on the mercy list! Please go to the Red Cross website to sign up. http://www.redcrossblood.org/rcbmobile/drive/chooseDonationTime.jsp Mark Hjelle and Craig Nordaker are the contact persons for this drive. Invite your neighbors to also sign up and come see our great new building!

Here's information about our upcoming American Red Cross blood drive. Schedule an appointment.

02/06/2019

Outreach (plus Jane Palmer) had a good time doing goulash (again!) at Stephen;s Center on Super Bowl Sunday!