Friends, please share our news and notes with your faith leaders, mission and outreach committees, and your congregation. And let us know your news, too. We're interested to hear about your social justice and mission work. We hope that you and your congregation are well, and continue to be in good health. |
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News & Notes for Your Bulletin |
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6th Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner |
Scarborough's 6th Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner, co-hosted by Scarborough School Nutrition, Public Safety, Community Services and Project GRACE, is preparing for another holiday dinner, curbside. While we still can't be gathering at Wentworth, we can still have dinner together. We'll just have to stretch a bit to pass the cranberry sauce, see our smiles through our masks. Please join us for a traditional roast turkey dinner to-go, with all the fixings. Call 730-4171 or RSVP ONLINE by Wednesday, November 17th for curbside pick-up on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day.
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The Scarborough Food Pantry has the turkeys (thank you, Scarborough Kiwanis!), but the pantry needs our help gathering the traditional fixings and sides. Project GRACE is hosting a food drive for the pantry: let us know what you can bring on November 4th or 11th (3:30-5:30), 167 Black Point Road. Or, make a monetary donation to help us buy what we need. Give a little, give a lot, it all adds up to helping our neighbors! Thank you! |
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A helping hand at the holidays is a welcome relief for parents struggling to make ends meet. So that kids (and parents!) will have a merry Christmas, soon we'll be inviting neighbors to sign up for holiday help like warm coats, pajamas, winter boots, and other essentials for kids. This year we're excited to be partnering with Scarborough Public Safety to give presents to boys and girls. We're looking for a few jolly 'elves' to sort toys and games and put them in festive gift bags. Timing would be early December (TBD). Interested? We'd love to hear from you! (883-5111) You wouldn't even have to travel to the North Pole! |
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What's under the tree? Special gifts to make the holidays brighter for kids, spices for the pantry, and supplies for area programs and agencies that are helping our neighbors, too. Would you like to host a giving tree with Project GRACE? We can provide tags, or you can get creative and make your own. We'll need: grocery gift cards, toys for boys and girls, festive gift bags & tissue paper, arts & crafts supplies, retail gift cards for teens, spices for the pantry, hats & mittens & new warm socks, soaps and shampoos. Please contact us to learn more or sign up below. |
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COMMUNITY HELPS KIDS GO BACK TO SCHOOL READY TO SUCCEED |
Extra supplies were shared with area programs helping kids, including Catholic Charities' Refugee Resettlement Program.
We missed being in the church hall at St. Max, but were thrilled to have so much support from the community! Thank you to everyone who donated so that a child could start the new school year ready to succeed.
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CARING FOR COMMUNITY DURING COVID |
Like so many in our town, we're still helping our community get through the pandemic. For example, every week we post disposable masks to the Oak Hill Post Office bulletin board - free to anyone who needs one. Meanwhile, makers from all over town, including the talented sewing club at St. Nicholas Church and several quilting groups, responded to our appeal for cloth masks. Thanks!
A few weeks ago we connected the Scarborough Food Pantry with the Falmouth-based Cap-Haitien Health Partnership, Konbit Sante, because the pantry had a huge surplus of several thousand cloth masks for adults and youths.The masks will soon be shared with the people of Cap-Haitien, a city on the northern coast of Haiti. |
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT & ACTION |
The "Food for Thought & Action" convenors sparked a number of great initiatives over the years, including the Community Thanksgiving Dinner serving 1,000+ free holiday meals, Community Gardens growing fresh and delicious produce for our neighbors, and strong partnerships bringing extra food to the hungry each month.
We will be reconvening after the holidays - stay tuned! If you'd like to help us host, let us know.
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WHAT'S NEW WITH YOU? KEEP IN TOUCH! |
Have you got ideas for how we can work together to help more of our neighbors? Got any news to share? Are you doing a project that needs a few more helping hands? What are your outreach mission and social action priorities for the coming year? We'd love to hear from you! |
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We're Neighbors Helping Neighbors |
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We're Here to Help
If you know of anyone in Scarborough struggling to meet basic needs, not sure of how to connect to resources, please share our contact info or make a confidential referral to a volunteer. Although we're often working remotely, our friendly and helpful volunteers check our messages regularly.
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