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Mission Team Update for January 2024

December and January have been extremely busy months for our missions team:

1. We provided over 50 Christmas gifts to 3 EO Young families in need.
   

2. We provided monthly food boxes in Dec. and Jan for 7 needy families.
   

3. We helped a needy family leaving an abusive situation with a couch, 2 beds, end tables, dishes, blankets, sheets, and clothing along with a food box and a $200 gift card to food lion, to help her and her 4 children get started again.
   

4. We continue to volunteer at the NC Food bank distribution site off Drewry Manson Rd 2 times a month.
   

5. We provided blankets, a bed, and winter coats to the “Hotel”. This is the old Norlina Hotel at the stop light; beside the Roost Crossroads Antiques and across from the Blue Waves Exxon. This “Hotel” provides a room for those trying to get there feet on the ground. There is a lot more work that needs to be done. They currently house 17 residents with 46 more rooms to be renovated. Work days will be announced when it warms up.
   

6. We are also working with “Shade Tree Ministries”. This ministry provides hot meals to 2 homeless camps in Norlina 2 times a week. We have provided silverware, and To-Go boxes for 500 meals, as well as coats, hats, gloves, blankets, cots, a tent, and camping store.
   

7. We continue to support the 10 elementary schools in Vance County and 3 in Warren County. This month we restocked the 13 schools with sanitary products, belts, undies, sweatpants, leggings, deodorant, socks, gloves, hats, coats, ChapStick, toothbrushes, toothpaste.
   
   

These missions are only possible because of YOUR GENEROUS DONATIONS, be it monetary or donation of above items.

I am asking each of you to please continue collecting children’s coat gloves and hats, as well as underwear and socks. The need is so GREAT in our area that these items go out as quick as they are received. -- THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Our Mission Team Delivering Support Supplies to Schools: 2023

Bulletin Boards our Mission Team Created for
EO Young Elementary School

Our Mission Team Working at the Food Bank

August 2023: Our Missions Team has been hard at work to get ready for the new school year!

The June 2023 Report from Our Mission Coordinator

The last 4 weeks have been busy for Our OUTREACH MISSIONS. We finished 38 dresses for “Little Children of Africa, Provided 6 monthly food boxes for E.O. Young school, provided hygiene kits (toothpaste, tooth brush, floss, shampoo, soap, deodorant and conditioner for a family of 9 burnt out of their home. We also provided an end of year “brunch” for the teachers and staff of E.O. Young, and proctored End of grade testing. We donated food to Shady Grove Methodist “Fill the pew” food drive. We have received many blessings this month. 60 jars of peanut butter were donated to us from Asbury Methodist in Raleigh, along with Macaroni and cheese from Guiding Star church, and cereal from Shilo Ministries. $200 has been received from a non- member. This money will be used to buy beads for weighted blankets. We also received 100 sets of ear buds from Delta Airlines.

We will continue to meet the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month from 1 to 4. We will be working on 25 more weighted lap blankets, and 75 more Seat Sacks, along with working on a sign for the outside prayer garden.

Our current needs are:
Jelly for the food pantry AND
School supplies- Pencils, markers, school paper, Band-Aids, and chapstick.

THERE IS A BOX IN THE BACK OF THE CHURCH TO COLLECT THESE SUPPLIES.

Please mark your calendar for October 31st. As we will be providing games for Trunk or Treat at Middleburg Baptist Church.

IF you have any questions or a project you would like to see us participate In, just let me know. 

Your Friend in Christ, Julie Brown, Mission Coordinator

Food Box Mission!

We Are the Peanut Butter & Jelly Church

Our Church has committed to providing the Peanut Butter & Jelly for the Food Box Mission in 2023. Please be generous in helping to feed our local needy children.

You may leave your jars in the donation bag on the back pew, or put them in the Food Pantry Room.

If you would like to donate cash, please write "Food Box Mission" on your offering envelope.

Update On Our Outreach Missions! From Julie Brown

January 6, 2023

2023 Outreach MIssions is beginning with a flurry of activities. We started with a meeting with Principal McKoon at E.O. Young Elementary. We will continue to provide ready made snacks for the children. The pantry has been set up in the counselor's office. It is accessible to any school employee that sees, hears, or observes a child in need of a quick snack.(instant oatmeal, granola bars, crackers and cheese, Mac and cheese, fruit cups, etc).

The 2nd part of this mission is providing monthly meal kits to food insecure families. We are currently providing 8 families with food each month. The boxes include spaghetti, noodles, Mac and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, tuna, chicken, milk, eggs, bread, butter, vegetables and fruit.

The 3rd part is helping the school nurse with the health needs of children by donating deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, chapstick, baby wipes, bandades, Vaseline and lotion. We are also collecting children's underwear sizes 4 through 10 and youth socks size 10-3. Earbuds with cords are being collected for the computer labs.

The 4th part will be providing Teacher gifts for monthly door prize drawings at staff meetings, and lastly we will be providing funding for pizza parties for student math and reading incentives, popcorn for their popcorn machine, as well as an ice cream social for end of year testing.

MIddleburg Methodist will begin a weekly "Stitches For Christ" group. Every Tuesday, beginning February 7th, from 1 to 4 in the Fellowship Hall. Bring your "UFO" (UnFinished Objects) or join us as we fellowship while sewing adult bibs for the Home for Senior Citizens, or weighted lap blankets for E.O.Young Elementary School.

Missions Accomplished In 2022

• EO Young Elementary School Student and Teacher Missions

• Food Box Mission

• Senior Citizen's Home of Henderson Mission

• Christmas Angel Mission

• Pastor's Discretionary Fund Mission