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Our Hands - Gods Work!

 

 

Dennison Students Help Out on Community Dinner in January.

Community Dinner January 2011 Courtesy of Advocate

 When Denison student Melissa Cherry signed up to serve in Denison's Martin Luther King 48-hour challenge, she knew she would be assigned a service project, but it wasn't until Saturday that Cherry found out any of the details.

"There is a little bit of suspense and excitement to it because you don't know what you are going to do," Cherry said.

This year, Cherry and several other students were assigned to first collect warm clothing, such as hats and scarves, then bring the items to Christ's Lutheran Church in Heath, where they also would help serve a community dinner.

Fellow student Zack Goldman said the group knocked on doors on campus and in Granville, collecting hats, scarves and gloves.

Other students were assigned different projects such as collecting toys, blankets, teaching about Martin Luther King Jr. at Newark High School and collecting oral histories about the Civil War.

According to Kelly Ficker, with Ohio Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA, the challenge is for the students to complete several different service projects during a 48-hour period. Ficker said the competition, organized by the John W. Alford Center for Service Learning, is part of the campus's celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which occurs one week late to accommodate students' return to classes.

"We've always done service projects, but this is only the second year we've done the timed challenge," Ficker said.

In 2010, one of the challenges was for students to collect as many blankets as possible. In just a few hours, students collected $700 and 100 blankets, Ficker said.

This year, the number of students participating is significantly larger with closer to 90 students and faculty members. Students have been signing up for several weeks, Ficker said, but didn't know until Saturday which project they would be assigned.

The results of the service efforts will be tabulated today.

But it is more than numbers that the students delivered to Christ Lutheran Church, which serves dinner to about 200 people at the church, YES Clubhouse, New Beginnings Shelter, Flint Ridge Village Apartments and homebound seniors every four weeks.

Photo and write-up Ccntributed by Amy Hollon

who can be reached at (740) 328-8543 or ahollon@newarkadvocate.com.

 

 

A group of Christ Lutheran members  manned the Salvation Army Red Kettles Pots on December 18. We also provided toys and clothing to the Salvation Drive this year as usual.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a Gallery of Pictures of the Happy Christians from that day. Click for Full Size or Printing.

 

 

 

 

 

This project by our Christ Lutheran Youth, was a huge success as evidenced by the table of staples collected for needy families.  Great job team.

 

NEWARK -- Newark resident Carolyn Colburn ( a member of CLC)  loves to cook, and she has a big heart.

It is not uncommon for her to whip up some homemade chicken soup and fresh bread to take to sick friends or neighbors.

She doesn't only do it once in a while, though. For the past 15 years, she and her husband, David, have been making homemade soup and sandwiches and taking them to the Salvation Army on East Main Street.

About twice a month, Colburn cooks up a five-gallon pot of chicken soup and throws in noodles from her sister's noodle factory in Indiana.

Her sister donates the broken pieces she can't use and Colburn adds potatoes, onions, carrots, celery and rotisserie chicken. The latter ingredient sometimes is donated by Kroger; other times, she buys the chicken.

The food preparation is an all-day process. Oftentimes, the couple also takes bread and a pound of lunch meat and cheese for the people there to make sandwiches.

"It's good, homemade soup that sticks to the bones," Colburn said. "It isn't for myself; it's because I want to help all the people unemployed."

Colburn is one of several volunteers who help the organization fulfill its mission, Salvation Army Volunteer Coordinator Kaye Hartman said.

Colburn's soup, which feeds about 50, provides one if not two meals for the hungry. The Salvation Army provides three meals a day to the residents in the shelter and their soup kitchen is open to the public during the last two weeks of the month. The organization never turns anyone away.

"(Monday), we had 34 people for lunch, which is a big number being so early in the month," Hartman said. "During our soup kitchen, it's not uncommon to have 100-plus."

Colburn's soup accomplishes two things for the Salivation Army: It frees up the cook to concentrate on the numerous other meals she has to prepare, and it also helps stretch food supplies for another meal.

Hartman describes the mission of the Salvation Army as the three S's: soap, soup and salvation.

Her mother always told her that the way to help people is by letting them be clean, feeding them and leading them to God. At the shelter, they do all three of those things. One of the Majors or an officer is available to talk to people about salvation if they desire.

The Newark Eagles recently had a bean supper, and afterward brought their leftovers to the Salvation Army.

"These folks that take their time and do stuff for us, they are the backbone of the Salvation Army," Hartman said. "We can't do what we do here without volunteers. They make it work."

Hartman said the Salvation Army always could use more food donations.

Colburn, 67, plans on making soup for many, many more years.

"I'm retired, and I like to help the Salvation Army feed the people," Colburn said.

This article reprinted from the Advocate by permission. L.B. Whyde can be reached at (740) 328-8513 or lwhyde@newarkadvocate.com.

 

SPECIAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES

 

 

 

 

Jail Ministry

Several of our members are training for assisting with Licking County Jail ministry.  Contact Pastor if you would like to participate in this critical outreach group.

Welcome Bags

Carolyn Peterson heads the group that makes welcome bags available to each new guest visiting our church.  Call Carolyn if you would like to help in this activity.  This winter the group is making a welcome DVD with short video clips to add to the bag.  This can be a great way to help build our church and win new souls.

Prayer Shawl Ministry

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Please come!  Visit with us and see for yourself.  We meet the second Tuesday of each month in the Parish Hall at 7 p.m. 

·        We are few in number and the need for prayer shawls is great

·        If you are not already a knitter or crotchetier, we have people who will be happy to teach you

·        We have the yarn and the knitting needles or crochet hooks but…..

·        We need YOU

 



 

Photo by Eric George, The Advocate
 


Janice Schulz, of Granville, and other Christ Lutheran Prayer Shawl Ministry members work on  prayer shawls. The prayer shawl ministry has made and distributed more than 300 prayer shawls around the world.


HEATH -- Her voice still wells up with emotions when Marguerite Cooley recalls the two pocket prayer shawls she and her husband received just before he passed away more than two years ago.

The mini shawls, which actually fit in the palm of the hand, were gifts from the Prayer Shawl Ministry of their church, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 732 Hebron Road, Heath. The shawls brought Cooley and her husband comfort in their time of need.

Since that time, Cooley, 84, of Heath, has become involved in the ministry by becoming a prolific maker of the mini shawls, which also can be pinned to pillows for people in intensive care units where larger shawls are not practical. She also named the shawls that were developed by Janice Schulz, the organizer of the ministry at the church.  

"I always kept mine in my pocket," Cooley said of the time her husband was in the hospital. "It made me feel better, so I named it pocket shawl. I just hope people get a piece of mind."

Since her husband's death, Cooley has become part of the church's ministry. Her specialty is knitting the mini shawls, and she has made more than 24 so far this month. The ministry has given away more than 277 of the pocket shawls and 300 of regular-sized shawls since the group started three years ago. The shawls have been distributed to people in 12 states as well as Canada and Germany.

Schulz was inspired by the prayer shawl ministry begun in 1998 by two women from Hartford, Conn. The shawls are knitted and crocheted with compassion and spirituality to reach out to those in need of comfort and solace. The handmade shawls are blessed once a month by Pastor Christine Santiago and also prayed over by their makers.

"Now it's the fastest growing ministry in our church," Schulz said. "They are meant to give comfort and to let people know they are prayed for, that there are people out there who care for them. We want them to feel comfort in it."

The Prayer Shawl Ministry church meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m., to pray together while making the shawls. In the beginning, the cost of making the shawls was borne entirely by the individual maker. But a fund has been established to help defray costs.

"They are given out as fast as we can make them," Schulz said. "I get a sense of doing something for someone else. Helping someone who is in need at the time. It's a very rewarding experience. We get a great deal out of it."

Joyce Williams, of Newark, also is a member of the ministry. She does not make many of the shawls because of the arthritis in her hands, but she delivers a lot of them to people in hospitals, nursing homes or people who are grieving.

She had been the coordinator of the Care Committee at the church, which coordinates visits of sick parishioners, sending cards and taking people to their doctor's appointments when needed. She decided to merge the committee into the Prayer Shawl Ministry. She finds out the general need of the shawl and then attaches a prayer card, made by other women at the church.

"When you see the reaction of the people to the shawls, including men, it's awesome," Williams said. "What a fantastic group of women that not only help make the shawls, but also the cards. Without them, it wouldn't exist. I might have 12 shawls on Monday and within a week, they are all gone. Then sometimes in three days, I will have more. It is a powerful ministry."

 

This article reprinted from the Advocate by permission. L.B. Whyde can be reached at (740) 328-8513 or lwhyde@newarkadvocate.com.

 


 

Senior Citizens Care Donations


Regular Donations of Canned Goods can be dropped off at the church in the Food Pantry Box. These items are delivered to area Senior Citizens in need of food assistance.
 

Direct Missionary Support ( Above our synod support)

  • We support and correspond with missionaries from the ELCA Missionary efforts along the coast of Alaska.
  • We support and correspond with the Smyrna Church in Galle, Sri Lanka.


 
Here is a  photo sent to us from Rev. Christi Kohomban of the Smyrna Church in Galle, Sri Lanka.  It is a photo of a Sunday School gathering of several congregations there. We correspond with this church and send them financial support from our congregation to this mission in Sri Lanka.

 
  • We are also grateful to share occasional worship services and fellowship with our brothers and sisters of the Oromo Lutheran Church which is an ELCA mission congregation in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.  In 2004, Christ Lutheran began  to share occasional, once per year, worship and meal with the Oromo Congregation.  The Oromo Lutherans are from areas of Ethiopia and Kenya.  They are Lutherans in background and are of the Oromian people who speak Oromian language.  They worship in Oromian.  We are grateful to know them and to share even once per year opportunities for worship and service with them.  We try to help this mission church, also about once per year, with a financial gift from our congregation. 

    Electronic Ministry

    This website and audio visual media support is provided by our e-team.  We are always looking for volunteers to bring the love of Christ to those outside the physical boundaries of our congregation. The team added a 46 inch high definition monitor in the Hallway for announcements and another means to spread word of the Lord's activities.

     

    Community Dinners

    Christ Lutheran has responded to needs generated by the economic slowdown and the thousands out of work.  A core group of volunteers has established a once a month Community Dinner to share in God's Love.  The response has been increasing each month and now several teams have formed to share in the preparation and support for these meals open to anyone who asks.  Check the Calendar for next event and sign up in hallway for one of the teams.

    This year like last, we have been able to package several holiday meal packages to worthy recipients.