 Can You Help?
St Rose Outreach Committee
This rewarding ministry coordinates various projects including Shelter Meals, Holiday food baskets, Gifts from the Heart, The Gifting Tree, the Fair Trade Sale and Food Drives. Volunteer help: Individuals, families and small faith groups are welcome to help with planning or to sign up with specific activities.
Many Thanks to All
Thank you for your joyous generosity of time, talent and treasure during the past six months. As always, there has been wonderful support for our many ministries including: the School Supply collection, the Community Based Homeless Shelter Meal Week, our four food collections to support St Martin's food pantry, the Fair Trade Sale, Gifts from the Heart and the Giving Tree. It is a pleasure and inspiration to work and serve with such loving fellow parishioners. Blessings, Teresa
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 St. Rose Outreach Ministry"Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion is to look out to the earth, yours are the feet by which He is to go about doing good and yours are the hands by which He is to bless us now." --St Teresa of Avila
Upcoming ministries and opportunities to serve:
Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless (MCCH) – On Monday, March 26, 2012, St. Rose has committed to bringing dinner for 200 men at the men's emergency shelter on East Gude Drive in Rockville. This facility is sponsored by MCCH. How can you help? Sign up to bring ingredients needed to prepare the meal, bring baked brownies or cookies, or sign up to cook with us on Sunday, March 25 beginning 3pm in the Parish Center kitchen. Click the logo below and enter password MCCH, to access the online sign up site. Any questions, call Janine Joyce at (301) 926-0526.
Food collections - We will be part of the Share the Hope archdiocesan wide collection on March 3-4th followed by our Pentecost collection, on May 26-27th. All donations will be given to St Martin's food pantry in Gaithersburg. Suggested food items include: dried rice, dried beans, pasta/ pasta sauce, canned beef stew, canned tuna, cereal, canned fruit & vegetables, peanut butter & jelly, boxed macaroni and cheese, Infant formula – 1 lb packages, diapers. As always, thank you for your generosity!
Community Based Homeless Shelter Meals - Week of March 4-10th. St Rose provides weekly meals twice a year for the women's community based shelter in Rockville. Everything is needed: main courses, vegetables, salads, desserts, drinks, paper goods, breakfast foods and bag lunches. If you have never been able to go to the shelter to serve the meal, I encourage you to try to do so some time this year. It is a true blessing to meet the women and be a part of their lives, even if only for a few hours. Our second collection will be the week of July 15-21st.
Operation Rice Bowl - What do you do with your pocket change? This is an excellent Lenten ministry that benefits the poor throughout the world. It is a wonderful activity to teach children that they too can help, one penny at a time. Rice bowls are available in the church foyer. For more information and resources go online: http://orb.crs.org
The Senior Connection - New to Montgomery County and in need of volunteers. The mission of The Senior Connection of Montgomery County, Inc. is to provide mobility by linking older adults to services and resources so they can live as independently as possible while remaining integral members of our community.
Volunteers help adults, ages 60 and older, maintain their independence and stay in their own homes for as long as it is safe to do so. Primary services include:
Places to donate clothing, household items, etc.
Interfaith Clothing Center
751 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, MD 301-424-3796
Mon. & Th 9-7pm Tu, W, Fr, Sat. 9-5pm
Accepts: clothing, hosehold items, toys, books, no furniture
* call if unsure --- they will take almost anything
Goodwill Industries
Drop off electronics, household items, or furniture at a donation centeror bin near you, or arrange for a home pickup. www.goodwill.org
Salvation Army
Organization will pick up household goods or clothing at your home. It also
Habitat ReStore
Check the Web site for a list of Restore locations that accept building
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