Feeding Friends, Growing Givers

 

This year our outreach efforts will all focus on feeding friends who are in need. Four projects are slated for the 2011-2012 year with a local, state, national and international focus.

 


 

 If you are planning to attend the Luncheon, please RSVP to ajohnson@stjamesbr.org.

 

Plan to come to eat lunch - the community soup, sandwiches and fruit salad - with your child.  We will be eating out on the new playground area weather permitting.

 

Go and view the Empty Bowls Art Show in the Parish Hall.

See the beautiful bowls that each child has made and you can also see and bid on the class platters.

You will also have the chance to pack We Care Bags. These are the brown bag lunches that we share with the homeless men and women in the downtown area.

 

If you wish you can make a donation to help support Share our Strength, a national non-profit organization that is seeking to end childhood hunger in America while at the Art Show.

 

Want to learn more about what Share our Strength does to help feed kids across America? Visit their website here http://shareourstrength.org/

 

Watch a short video http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ6MnixNlk4

 

 

 

Thank you for your support of Watering Malawi!

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Watering Malawi

The second project in our Feeding Friends, Growing Givers outreach initiative is underway! This week all students were given a cup. Inside you will find an Advent Giving Calendar,a blue reminder bracelet and information about "in honor of" gifts for our Watering Malawi Project.

 

For the next three weeks we will be raising funds to help provide fresh water wells and proper sanitation for the people of Malawi through the organization, Watering

Malawi. It is way to help us all keep the true gift of Christmas, the love of Jesus, at the center of our celebrations and preparations. You can learn more about it at wateringmalawi.org.

 

To make a donation on line to the St. James Watering Malawi project CLICK HERE. You will be taken to the donation page for Passport, Inc. the parent organization of Watering Malawi. Please be sure to DESIGNATE your gift for “St. James Watering Malawi Project”.

If you would like to send a card to the people your honored with your donation., Click Here for a form to print and send to school.

How St. James Kids are helping this Advent…

The children are asked to bring in their cups each Thursday to be a part of Friday’s offering. For the three Fridays in December that we will worship together we will be offering up the coins collected.

Click here for a link to the Advent Calendar.

Click here for a link to Watering Malawi’s homepage.

Click here to hear the song that we are singing throughout Advent to remind of the living river of God’s never ending love.                                              

 

 

 

 


Food Bank Drive

In September we held our first outreach initiative; a two week drive for the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank.

 
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Feeding Friends Growing Givers
Outreach 2011-2012