Stephen Ministry: Might you be called?
All Saints Stephen Ministry wishes to expand its leadership team.
Stephen Leaders participate in a week of training in ways to plan and administer the program. They go on to recruit and train Stephen Ministers, link Stephen Ministers with those in need of care and lead peer-supervision sessions. Potential Stephen Leaders have an aptitude for teaching, communication and administrative and organizational abilities. Potential Stephen Leaders should also show insight and empathy, be committed All Saints’ members and feel God’s call to this ministry.
If you want more information about how your gifts might match the needs of this important program, please contact All Saints.
Wanted: Garage Sale help
All Saints Senior High Youth Group will raise funds for its activities with a garage sale July 26 at the church, and the teens need your help.
What: The youth will accept all household items except clothing for the sale.
To donate: If possible, we ask donators to store items in their homes until the week of July 19. Contact Dave Kivimaki, director of high school ministries, if you need to make arrangements to drop things off earlier or have items picked up.
Special needs
- Storage space (a spare garage or shed close to church).
- Volunteers to help price and sort items.
- Pick-ups or trailers to help collect items.
If you can help with these items, contact Dave.
Fair Trade Coffee Sundays
All Saints offers its community a chance to buy coffee through the Lutheran World Relief Fair Trade Coffee Project.
When: Between service times on the first Sunday of each month. Next up: July 6.
About the project: The LWR Fair Trade Coffee Project ensures that more of the money you spend on coffee reaches the farmers who actually grow it. Fair trade coffee is a simple solution that means the difference—quite literally—between surviving and not surviving for small-scale coffee farmers.
Canine encounters share God’s love
All Saints’ Monday Night Small Group has a big goal: Raising $10,000 to sponsor a service dog through Canine Companions for Independence. The group was moved by the Holy Spirit to take on this project to share God’s love and blessings with those who can lead more fulfilling and independent lives through the work of these highly trained companions.
To donate: Checks should be payable to All Saints and identified as a Special Gift/Canine Companions in the memo line.
Pups in training: Those puppies sporting yellow capes that you’ve seen around All Saints have a special destiny: Each will assist a person with a disability in leading a more fulfilling and independent life. For the puppies to reach their potential, they need the loving environment and stimulating experiences they find here.
Laurels of Worthington worship services
Teams of at least three volunteers plan and lead worship at The Laurels of Worthington nursing home, including hymn selection, Scripture readings and a message.
The planning for each service usually takes more than two hours, and volunteers are called upon to serve three to four times per year. The worship services are conducted from 10:30 to 10:50 a.m. Sundays, with volunteers asked to arrive 15 minutes before the start of service to prepare.
Volunteers of various skills are needed, including instrumentalists and those willing to lead hymns as well as those who will conduct readings, but the only requirements are a love of worship and compassion for the residents who otherwise might not get the opportunity to attend a worship service.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Kay Labosky, director of lay ministry.
Members helping members
All Saints members are encouraged to show Christ's love to those who need help with household projects in every season. For jobs from spring cleaning to lawn mowing to leaf raking and snow removal, along with many other tasks that make a house more homey inside and out, volunteers are needed. Contact All Saints to volunteer or to request assistance.
Ongoing donation collections at All Saints
Eye Glasses: Lions Club
Toner Cartridges: Benefits Mid-Ohio Food Bank
Campbell Soup Labels: Benefits Oesterlen Services for Youth. A Campbell's soup can shaped receptacle is on the bulletin board shelf outside the conference room. In addition to all Campbell products, Pepperidge Farm, Franco-American, V8, Swanson, Market Day, and Prego products are also eligible. Please see the information sheet at the bulletin board outside the conference room or visit www.labelsforeducation.com for details.
Pop Can Tabs: Benefits Ronald McDonald House at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
