Service opportunities across town for all ages and abilities! Have fun, meet new people, and go home tired knowing you’ve made a difference in our community!
Breakfast/sign in at 8:00am South Church at 41 Central St.
Projects are usually from (approximately) 9:00 -2:00pm or 12:00-3:00pm.
All are invited to dinner at 5:30pm at South Church.
CALLING FOR DONATIONS!
Food Donations
Basic Food
Shelf Stable Milk (e.g. Parmelat)
Canned Beans, especially Pink Beans, Green Pigeon Peas, red, black, pinto beans
Canned Vegetables—All Kinds
Canned Fruit—All Kinds (preferably no added sugar)
Peanut Butter
Tuna
Canned Ham & Chicken
Pasta Sauce
Cereal—NOT sweetened
Rice—Goya, Canilla or Carolina—NOT Uncle Ben’s or Minute Rice
Pasta—All Kinds
Holiday Food
Stuffing Mix and/or Stuffing Ingredients
Cranberry Sauce and/or Cranberries
Gravy
Nuts and other holiday treats
Pie ingredients—Apples, Squash, Pumpkin, Pie Crust Mix, Evaporated Milk
Cake mix, bread mixes—corn, banana, cranberry, etc.
Baking supplies—Butter, Sugar, Flour
Festive drinks – Coffee, tea or sparkling cider
Holiday Paper products or other other table decorations
Infant Needs
Similac Advance formula—Powder in cans with light blue labels
Baby Food in jars or pouches
Baby cereal
Diapers—size 3,4, 5, 6
Baby wipes
Infant clothing and supplies new born through size 5T
Pine Needles
Save your pine needles! If your neighborhood’s driveways and sidewalks are strewn with freshly fallen pine needles, don’t let them go to waste! Fill a paper leaf bag (or two) and drop it off at South Church on Day of Service and the Giving Garden work crew will put them to good use mulching the blueberries planted last summer. Pine cones, small twigs, and some regular leaves are fine to leave in the mix. Questions? mark.aude@gmail.com
Unused/Outgrown/Broken Bikes
The Board of World Service has hosted Bikes Not Bombs for many years as part of our annual Day of Service, and each year we have collected bikes, in some years as many as 118 bikes. Please consider dropping off your outgrown, broken, and unused bikes to the front of the church on November 2, from 9 am to 1 pm.
Bikes Not Bombs serves many purposes: Annually, they collect roughly 5000 bikes and used parts from supporters around Greater Boston and ship them to economic development projects in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In their Youth Programs, teens learn bicycle safety and mechanics skills, while earning a bike to keep for themselves. Their Bike Shop reconditions and sells some of the donated bikes, while employing many graduates of the programs.
Your donated bikes should be free of rust. We do not accept scooters or tricycles, or electric assist bikes or exercise equipment. We are asked to request a voluntary donation of $20 per bike, to cover shipping expenses, since it costs BNB over $8000 to ship bikes overseas in a container. We provide tax deductible receipts for the bikes and shipping donation.
It’s times like these we learn a fundamental truth: The Church isn’t a building.
While we long for the day we can return to our sanctuary and welcome back our AA meetings and food pantry, we remember that despite the privilege of having a building to share, the Church was never about a building. It’s about the connections we make with one another and with God, and the ties that bind us together in service to the world.
Whether you are young or old – or a little bit of each, queer or straight – or a little bit of each, male or female – or a little bit of each, calm or nervous – or a little bit of each, we will continue to be faithful in finding ways to be Church for one another.
Worship
Until we are able to gather again in person, worship will be available via live-stream every Sunday at 10 AM on our YouTube and Facebook pages.
Digital Gatherings and Offerings
Just because we can’t gather in person, doesn’t mean we can’t gather together and grow in faith. From storytime to bible study featuring the staff and members of the congregation, our online opportunities to gather together are listed here.
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We are in unprecedented days. Our prayer is that each of you might find moments of peace, beauty and love in the midst of the worry and fear. And that through connecting with one another, and with God, we might lift each other up until we gather together again in body. If there are additional things you would like to share or ask, please don’t hesitate to reach out.