The St Peters mission team shown here—Ken Pogue, Johnny and Cookie Davis, Laura Carey, Jan Saylor and not pictured, Andrea Pogue and Catherine Hicks, along with members of Andrea’s family, spent Friday unpacking supplies and getting the bookbags stuffed and ready for the distribution. This photograph was taken in one of the classrooms for the older children.
Outreach
FredCamp Lunches, June 29-July 3, 2015
Thanks to Barbara Segar, Nancy Long, Cherry Everett, Becky Fisher, Betty Kunstmann, Elizabeth Heimbach and Catherine Hicks for their help in providing FredCamp lunches from June 29-July 3. We have supported FredCamp with lunches for the past four years. A great outreach project! This year one of the sites was right in Port Royal- 7213 Royal Street. These pictures were taken by Catherine on the last day, July 3. Kentucky Fried Chicken and all of the fixings plus pizza was served and devoured.
Cooking for the Team, October 17, 2014
|Roger, Eunice, Cookie, Johnny, Betty, Clarence, Charles and Catherine for their help in feeding a bunch of hungry guys in “Cooking for the Team”, Caroline High School football team. They partnered with Second Mount Zion, Dawn, including Beverly Baylor, Elnora Smithers, Dorothy Tolliver and Stanley Quash. St. Peter’s fixed the chicken and macaroni and Second Mount Zion the String beans, fruit and rolls
7th Community Dinner, March 30, 2013
We had our 7th Community Dinner on the Saturday before Easter. As with Christmas we partnered with Parks and Rec and Caroline’s Promise. Parks and Rec provided the publicity and decorations. Caroline’s Promise the easter baskets and crafts. St. Peter’s donated 880 plastic eggs plus 43 bags/boxes of candy, individually wrapped. We had slightly lower numbers than Christmas and estimates ranged from 80-120
Return to Staten Island Dec. 1-6, 2012
Catherine, Roger, Lamar and Travis left St. Peter’s after church on Dec. 1, 2012 to journey back to Staten Island. Another clothes distribution was getting organized but not one for school children, but for the entire island devastated by Hurricane Sandy a month earlier. Catherine’s sister Lynnette, pictured with the group above, worked with a local Congressman to have clothes from Idaho and other places delivered. St. Peter’s group along with others, including Moravians from Bethlehem, washed them at a local laundry, carried them in and worked on sorting the clothes.
Morning Prayer, July 31, 2011 – Outreach
A sermon of outreach and tales of outreach going on now and in the next month at St. Peter’s.
Mission Trip to Staten Island Aug 22-28, 2012
These are Catherine’s pictures from the Staten Island trip, Aug 22-28, 2012. With the Moravians and other churches they helped over 1,000 people obtain clothing for the next school year. We had 13 participate in the trip. The Fishers, Wendy Gayle, Elizabeth and Jim Heimbach, Johnny and Cookie Davis, Eunice and Roger Key and Catherine.
Community Dinner #6, Dec. 14, 2012
This was our 6th and final community dinner, begun in mid-2011 and sponsored in part by a Mustard Seed Grant. We went out in style – 100 + people, not counting Santa and the workers. We partnered with Parks and Rec. and Caroline’s Promise which was an idea from Nancy. Workers from the Evening ECW included Barabara, Phyllis Sue, Catherine, Elizabeth, Andrea and also Nancy with the beverages and cake. Thanks for Barbara and Nancy for their planning. A beautiful evening as you will see in the pictures.
Community Dinner Dec. 13, 2013
We partnered again with Caroline’s Promise, Parks and Recreation, Town of Port Royal, Memorial Baptist to provide a Christmas experience on Dec. 13, 2013 for the children and families. We probably had 150+ people, larger than 2012. St. Peter’s provided the food – two kinds of soup, bread and vegetables. The Fishers did the face and hand painting. Numerous crafts and games were setup. After 6pm, we moved outside for caroling led by Nancy, culminating in the lighting of the tree and the arrival of Santa Claus. The line was long for Santa. After sitting on Santa’s lap, each child received a gift. St. Peter’s also donated the $50 Sheetz gas card for the raffle. Barbara Wisdom and the Evening ECW did an excellent job in organizing this wonderful evening
Community Dinner #4 – March 10, 2012
We had 28 to dinner on our fourth community dinner on March 10, 2012 at the Firehouse. Thanks to the Evening ECW and particularly Barbara Wisdom, Cynthia Fields and Elizabeth Heimbach, and ECW member Cookie Davis as well as those from the ECM, Stanley Fields and Boyd Wisdom. Stanley cooked 3 pots of wonderful chile and others contributed the salad, brownies and corn bread. Also thanks to the Diocese of Va. for the Mustard Seed grant.
5th Community Dinner, June 9, 2012
We held the 5th community dinner on June 9, 2012 at the Fire house on a beautiful summer evening with relatively mild temperatures. It was the one year anniversary and it featured Stanley’s new grill with Kirkland’s hamburgers and hotdogs. We served 25 at the dinner with 12 people helping from St. Peter’s. We also gave away a $50 gas card.
Community Dinner for Port Royal, June 4, 2011
The first Community Dinner sponsored by the ECW and ECM on was held June 4 besides the fire house. The weather was perfect – mid 80’s under blue skies. We had 25 people outside the Church attend and the consensus was it was a good start for these dinners.
Community Dinner #2, Sept 3, 2011
Our second dinner was smaller than the first, possibly due to the scheduling on Labor Day weekend. Nevertheless we had 16 guests and gave out 14 bookbags and other supplies.
School Dressing Days Coming in July – Fredericksburg
Benefits – Every child who attends Dressing Days will get a new outfit — shirt, pants, underwear and socks — as well as toiletries and personal hygiene items, a backpack with school supplies and their pick of “gently used” coats, hoodies and shoes
When – 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, July 26-27, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints, 1710 Bragg Road in Fredericksburg.
Coverage – City of Fredericksburg and the counties of Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford.
ID required- On the day of event Adults must bring proof of residence such as a driver’s license or a letter from social services. Head Start students need proof of acceptance into the program.
Preregistation required by July 13. All families who plan to attend must pre-register by July 13. They can do so online at interfaithcommunitycouncil.org/home. In-person registration will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 13, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints.
Signup! – 200 volunteers needed for setup and working the event
1. Setup July 25
2. Work the event – July 26-27
Virginia SunBucks program
1 What is it? $120 grocery benefit for each eligible school-aged child this summer. Program active as July 1 with benefits to be distributed in August on a rolling basis. Benefits will be issued either on your family’s SNAP EBT card or a pre-loaded Virginia Summer EBT card that looks just like a debit or credit card and can be used to purchase groceries.
Automatic enrollment
Or,
Enrollment by Application
2. You can use SUN Bucks to pay
- fruits and vegetables
- meat, poultry, and fish
- dairy products
- breads and cereals
- snack foods and non-alcoholic drinks
You cannot use SUN Bucks to purchase:
- hot foods
- pet foods
- cleaning or household supplies
- personal hygiene items
- medicine
3. Where buy ? Examples – Many grocery stores, farmers’ markets, convenience stores, and online retailers accept SUN Bucks. Often, these are the same places that accept SNAP and WIC. Use the SNAP retail locator to find stores near you.
4. More information:
A. Main site
B. FAQs
C. Apply or opt out
D. Eligibility
E. Resources
Jamaican Scholarship winners
St. Peter’s John Whitfield and Andrea Pogue Educational fund was used to award money for the top three students who will be graduating this year at Victoria Primary School in Jamaica. The certificate is been presented by Rogel Reid on behalf of Laura Carey.
The awards are in Jamaican dollars and together total about $500. From left to right, top to bottom:
1st place, Teshan Duncan $25,000
2nd place, Deshenae Alveranga $20,000
3rd place, Kris-Annie Stanigar $15,000
Congratulations to all winners!
World Refugee Day, June 20
“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.” – Hebrews 13:2
World Refugee Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 to celebrate the strength and courage of those around the world who have been forced to flee their home country to escape prosecution or conflict. World Refugee Day helps to raise awareness about the growing refugee crisis in places like Syria and Central Africa and to focus on ways to improve the lives of refugees.
“ Refugee” is a legal term used to define an individual who:
“…owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.” (1951 Geneva Refugee Convention.)
The Connection – Juneteenth (June 19) and World Refugee Day (June 20)
Juneteenth is related to World Refugee Day.
Juneteenth and World Refugee Day are times to celebrate what has been done to make our world better for all and reminds us to recommit ourselves to the healing work we need to do before we can all truly be free. It also reminds us to attend to the systemic forces that prevent change, keep oppression in place, and distract us with the falsehood that one person’s freedom must be another person’s loss. As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”—Ruth Frey
Jesus disturbed the comforted and comforted the disturbed – Ryan W. Clayton
Junetenth is about personal freedom. World Refugee Day also proclaims the value of each person as a unique child of God and commit ourselves to the healing and wholeness of all persons.
There is a community element as well. As the Bishop of Atlanta writes “God rejoices when we celebrate the truth-that we were made for each other and for God’s glory. “How good and how pleasant it is for brothers and sisters and siblings to dwell together in unity.”
Juneteenth also preserved the integrity of the family by allowing families to stick together without the possibility of being sold. World Refugee Day remembers and honors the families and individuals made homeless by disasters, wars, poverty, and intolerance around the world.