United Methodist Church of Anoka
Saturday, May 25, 2013
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These are the weeks that Anoka United Methodist is responsible for delivering meals:
 
April 15-19, 2013
May 28-31, 2013
July 8-12, 2013
August 19-23, 2013
September 30-October 4, 2013
November 11-15, 2013
December 23-27, 2013
February 3-7, 2014
March 17-21, 2014
April 28-May 2, 2014
June 8-13, 2014
 
Look for the sign-up sheet for drivers prior to that week by the church office or contact our coordinator, Edna at 763-323-9356.
 
Ministry of the Month

Your Outreach Committee identifies a Ministry to focus on each month. They provide information through the web, newsletter and bulletins about how you can participate. Please place your contribution (make your check out to Anoka UMC)  in an envelope found in the pews, or your offering envelope and mark it for:   Annual Love Offering

 

 The Annual Love Offering For Missions
Each year, Minnesota Annual Conference churches take a Love Offering for missions. The offering benefits international, national, and local mission projects, and helps fund Volunteer in Mission scholarships. Donations in past years have been a tremendous help for the recipients who are different each year. This year the donations will be used as follows.
 
International Projects:
Women & Community Association in Nicaragua (25%)
This is an ecumenical ministry that serves approximately 12,000 people in a large, impoverished, rural county in Nicaragua. United Methodist missionaries Nan McCurdy and Miguel Mairena serve at this mission site.
Funds will be used to support youth scholarships, Youth Network Against Violence, and women’s economic development (business training and small loans).
National Projects:
Red Bird Missionary Conference (20%)
Help pay the conference’s pastors in impoverished areas in Appalachia.
Emma Norton Services (20%)
Emma Norton Services is the only United Methodist National Mission Institution in Minnesota. At Emma Norton Services, women receive help they need to maintain sobriety, manage their mental health, finish their education, enroll in job training programs or college, get jobs, and build a healthy social support network.
Minnesota Projects:
Native American Ministries (25%) This will support programs in the Cass Lake and St. Paul areas
 
For first-time Volunteers In Mission (VIM) participants from Minnesota
 


 

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UMCA supports these organizations both financially and through volunteerism:

(To learn more just click on the link of your area of interest.) 
 
 

Alexandra House: Providing emergency shelter for abused women in the area.

Community Emergency Assistance Program:  The local food shelf in Anoka.

CROP Walk:  Annual fund raiser for hunger relief. Hosted by our church each October.

Family Table: Area churches furnishing an evening meal each Saturday to those in need.  Four times a year at UMCA. (Check with our church office for the next one!)

Feed My Starving Children:  Packing food for shipment to several developing countries.

Free 2B!:  Accepts cars, repairs them and then donates them to eligible Anoka County residents.

Habitat-for-Humanity: Building low income homes in the area. 1-2 weeks each summer.

Lincoln School Families:  Offering assistance to families living close to the church.

Meals-On-Wheels:  Delivery of meals to senior citizens.  Several weeks a year.

Red Cross Bloodmobile

Salvation Army bell ringers

Stepping Stones: Homeless shelter in Anoka

Toys for Tots:  Collects toys for needy children in Anoka County

O. C. Ministries:  Building and supplying UM-related classrooms, clinics and churches in Jamaica, Liberia and Sierra Leone.  Collections twice a year.  Work team trips once or twice a year.

Disaster relief teams to Fargo, Iowa, New Orleans, etc.  As needed.

United Methodist Committee On Relief:  Disaster relief throughout the world.

Paul Webster:  United Methodist missionary in Zambia specializing in agriculture.

Sierra Leone Annual Conference of the UMC District Superintendent funding:  Providing assistance for effective church and district administration. 

Our next week of hosting families is coming up. 

We need volunteers for set-up/take down, overnight hosts, drivers, activity and food prep/serving/clean-up. Call the office to let us know you can help. Overnight hosts are required to attend an orientation, if you’ve not done so in the past. The next orientation is at the FPAC Day Center, 14515 Nowthen Blvd., Ramsey on Monday, May 13, 6-7:30 p.m.