MILWAUKIE (SENIOR) CENTER
MLC members help to prepare and serve meals for
seniors; drive for 'Meals on
Wheels'; and support the Milwaukie Center
with volunteer receptionist support.
ANNIE ROSS HOUSE
Collections of household supplies, food, clothing
and toys are donated year around.
The Annie Ross House is a Milwaukie shelter for
women and children. MLC participates in conjunction with local
inter-denominational churches in our community.
HOUSE OF ZION
Clothing is collected year around for the low
income (primarily migrant farm workers) in the Woodburn, Oregon
area. Each December MLC participates with other churches
in Clackamas county in a toy and food drive to support the House
of Zion Christmas Party.
LOVE INC
Love In the Name of Christ, helps families in
Clackamas County that are in need. It is a cooperative
effort by a group of churches and service agencies to more
affectively help the disadvantaged. Coordinator for MLC is
Lisaana Morley, please contact her at
503-513-0237 for more information.
Members of MLC routinely donate items to the
various mission kits for Lutheran World Relief, including
layettes, school kits, and health kits. These items are
assembled at the church and shipped to LWR.
PIECEMAKERS - QUILTING
MLC is blessed with a group of quilters who sew
and tie passage quilts for hospice patients at Milwaukie
Providence Hospital, baby quilts for Dorenbecker Children's
Hospital, and quilts for all children baptized at MLC.
PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY
Prayer Shawls (or lab robes) are knit or
crocheted for those in need of prayer, love and warmth in the
congregation.
WILLAMETTE HOSPITAL LAYETTES
Layettes are assembled for low income mothers and
newborns at Willamette Hospital. A group of women from one of
the MLC women's circles shop sales, (and garage sales), to
support this needy project.
JANUS YOUTH PROGRAM
Monthly a dinner is cooked and delivered to
the Janus Youth Program to support the hungry street kids of
Portland. Collections of hygiene items, sox's, hats and
gloves is also conducted throughout the year.
PROJECT START RIGHT
A late summer school supply drive is conducted
yearly to gather school supplies for low income and foster
families in the Clackamas county area.
SMART READING PROGRAMS
Volunteers from MLC support children in several
area schools through reading programs and other mentoring.
LOCAL PREGNANCY CLINIC MENTORING
Volunteer opportunities are available to work
with clinic staff to mentor pregnant teens and young adults in
the Milwaukie area.
OREGON FAITH ROUNDTABLE AGAINST HUNGER
Several members of MLC participate in Clackamas
county hunger awareness roundtables. A critical need
is present locally, nationally, and internationally to feed the
hungry.
RONALD
McDonald HOUSE
MLC, along with other local churches and
organizations, help families of critically ill children by
collecting pull tabs for the Ronald McDonald House of Portland.
The simple task of collecting 'pull tabs' off of soda,
juice or beer cans, help the
operations of the Ronald McDonald House in
Portland. Two bear shaped collection
containers are located in the hallway by the
choir room. BACKPACK BUDDIES
"Because Hunger Doesn't Take the Weekend off"
MLC and King of Kings Lutheran Churches provide weekend
lunches for 48 children at Milwaukie Elementary School as a
commitment to help end hunger in our own backyard. Each
Friday two nonperishable "kid-friendly" lunches are placed in
the backpack of the children. Your help would be
appreciated. Contact the church for further details.
MEN'S CLOTHING NEEDED
All kinds, all sizes are needed for the Volunteer's of America
Men's Residential Center. This program provides clothing
to addicted felons on parole and probation who cannot work for 4
months due to intensive treatment schedules. Therefore
your help is needed. Contact the church for the details of
this program.
SISTER CHURCH IN JASTRZEBIE, POLAND
The parishioners of
Milwaukie Lutheran Church, Milwaukie, Oregon, wish the
parishioners of our sister church in Jastrzebie, Poland, a
very happy Easter.
We
would like to share some pictures of a few things that
have happened since the first of the year and some that are on
going. This Lenten season, we have done something different
with our Lenten cross. We have strung beads on it to represent
the 24,000 people who die each day from hunger related
diseases. We now have about 11,000 beads on it. For our Lenten
services, Pastor Mantey has been sharing stories of Lutheran
missionaries in different parts of the world.
Our
youth have been busy raising money for their summer mission trip
to a large city to
work
with homeless people. To help with that, they held a Valentine
Day dinner. Adults
cooked the food but the youth served it and helped clean up
afterwards. At the same time
there
was a silent auction of items to purchase …another way for them
to earn money.
SERVERS
FOR VALENTINES
SILENT AUCTION
The
Sunday School’s Lenten project has been to collect money to buy
chickens and rabbits to send to Lutheran Relief. They have a
basket of
empty
plastic eggs in the narthex. Everyone is encouraged to fill an
egg
with money to help buy the animals.
At
the beginning of the year, an all church project was buying
goats
for
Ethiopia.
One
of the ways Milwaukie Lutheran Church reaches out to the
community is through our preschool for children 3 and 4 years of
age. This has been an ongoing outreach for many years. One of
the pictures below shows the brightly painted hallway in the
preschool area.
There is a picture
bulletin board of outreach activities and volunteers pictures in
hallway next to choir room.
EDUCATIONAL AND
SPIRITUAL GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES (Click the word
Educational to see the opportunities that exist.)
