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April 14, Maundy Thursday
OUTREACH REPORT Service, 7:00p

April 14, Gethsemane Watch
BY CATHY DALTON, OUTREACH CHAIR Starts, 8:00p

The Outreach Committee is committed to more community engagement. April 15, Good Friday
Four times a year we will meet and plan activities where we get involved in Service, 3:00p
our city. The winter project was the Fill the Freezer at the Miller Home event,
and the spring project was April 2 at Lynchburg Grows. We are planning a April 16, Easter Vigil
Miller Home Refresh on June 18. The fall project will be our Day of Sharing in Saturday, 8:00p
September or October (depending on the college football schedule).
April 17, Easter Sunday
In between these projects, please check out the bulletin board for the Services, 8:00a and 10:30a
multiple thank you notes from many agencies we have helped in the past few
months.

Along with Interfaith Outreach, St. John’s has supported the 4 $ucce$$
program at Fairview Community Center. In December we distributed funds
to Miller Home, Bear Mountain, Community Connected, Habitat for
Humanity, Interfaith Outreach, Lynchburg Grows, Meals on Wheels, Miriam's
House, Parkview Mission, Rivermont Area Emergency Food Pantry, Salvation
Army, Society of St Andrews, Tinbridge Hill Yoder Center, Boys Home, Daily
Bread.

Our Easter plate offering is dedicated to summer camp scholarships to Camp
Kum-Ba-Yah, Phoebe Needles Center Camp, and Lynchburg Area Youth
Sports Initiative Clinics.

In the fall we will be preparing for the One Community, One Voice Coat
Drive, followed by the Salvation Army Bell Ringing, and Bear Mountain
Children’s Clothing Bear Tree and the Tinbridge Hill Yoder Center Children’s
Clothing and toys Angel Tree. The Christmas Plate Offering will be dedicated
to feeding our community through Daily Bread, Meals on Wheels, and the
Rivermont Area Emergency Food Pantry.
St. John’s Day School
We have plans for a Habitat Build in the future and receive requests and Fundraiser, April 29
suggestions from many groups. Help our community by joining us for our big
projects, supporting our many ministries, and join us when we meet again as We are excited to announce the
a committee June 7 in the Chapter Room. return of the Great Story Book
Escape! As the Day School’s largest

Current request from the Boys Home of Virginia: AAA, AA, & 9-volt batteries, fundraiser, we hope you can join us
jump drives, composition notebooks, pencils, pens, 3-ring binders, EXPO for a night “In the Garden” with

markers, shampoo, conditioner, gel, moisturizer, combs, picks, body wash, dinner, drinks, live music, and
lotion, deodorant, shaving cream, toothpaste, hand soap, nail clippers, kitchen awesome auction items! Tickets are
towels, hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, disinfectant spray, laundry available at $75 per person. For
detergent, dryer sheets, and a 70.8” life-size human skeleton model. Some of more information, or RSVP, contact
the boys will be visiting us this summer. We would like to send them home Amy Panzer at the Day School
with some important supplies! amy@stjohnslynchburg.org. or
434-846-1914.

TIDINGS | APRIL 2022 | STJOHNSLYNCHBURG.O R G