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Dinner for 84 at Coast House: Contact Ruth Ann Wrucke at 650-851-8435 or cwrucke@mindspring.com to volunteer for food prep on Friday May 9th and more cooking and container filling on Saturday May 10th. Bakers, sous chefs and container fillers are needed for the yummy Ham Dinner. Ruth Ann regaled me with the menu: Baked ham, scalloped potatos, baked beans, fruit salad, Cole slaw, green salad and lemon cupcakes. Yum! Coast House is one of the newest of the Life Moves shelters and houses 84 adults, couples, plus a few families (with 12 kids) in a converted Coast side motel. It is the only interim shelter (with support services) for those experiencing homelessness on the San Mateo Coast; help is provided regardless of immigration status.
SpiritCare Visits: Contact Angela Hey at amhey@heymash.com or 650-796-2377 to volunteer on Sunday May 19th, 1:30 at Silver Oaks Memory Care in Menlo Park. Readers, singers and senior hand-holders are needed. We also need flower arrangers during coffee hour since we will be making small flower arrangements for each room for a belated Mother’s Day. On Sunday April 21st we celebrated Earth Day with the seniors while also singing our praise to God. We talked about the history of Earth Day (which began on April 22, 1970) and our responsibility to be good stewards to the Earth. The Tom Lehrer song Pollution was featured as a sing-along. Thanks to Nora Bevan, Angela Hey (pianist), Pam Kaufman, Kathy Kennedy (presenter) and the Christ Church kids who decorated Earth Day cookies for the seniors. They loved them! SpiritCare provides spiritual and emotional support for “forgotten” elderly and disabled residents at over 60 care centers in the Bay Area. Christ Church has partnered in this important ministry with Silver Oaks Memory Care in Menlo Park which houses 46 seniors.
Beginning Sunday May 19th, 4PM at The Sequoias (Portola Valley) in Haddon Hall we will visit with the 300 residents. Many of our parishioners live there and their on-site Vespers program is kaput. In May we will visit with residents in independent and assisted living. We also hope to add a regular visit to the memory care unit this summer. We will be singing hymns "Powered by Connection" that embrace all on Earth. Slides will be shown about “Three Biblical Gardens” talking about the art and archaeology of the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane and the Garden Tomb. The last two are real places and the first one might be. Singers and readers are needed. Since this is our first time at The Sequoias we also expect to do some listening so we gear the program to their needs. Contact Pam Kaufmann. 619-885-0885. Thank you Barbara Creed, Angela Hey, Pam Kaufman and Kathy Kennedy for helping put this program together. To volunteer, contact Pam Kaufmann at pamkaufmann@gmail.com
Delivering Socks & Underwear for Redwood Family House - During April and very early May we collected NEW socks, underwear and diapers for the 10 families including 31 kids and 15 adults staying at Life Moves Redwood Family Shelter in Redwood City. We made deliveries on April 18th and again on Friday May 10th. Thank you Betsy Alexander, Barbara Creed, Louise Delafield, Karen Fisher, Katja Gagen, Sarah Halsey, Claiborne Jones, Pam Kaufmann, Kathy Kennedy, Lenore Lovoi, Erin Miller, Denise Moriarty, the Outreach Committee and Carol Wentworth for covering bottoms and toes. Redwood Family House is one of four family shelters in San Mateo County operated by Life Moves. It provides interim housing in a small apartment with a kitchen and provides the support services to get otherwise homeless families back on their feet and into permanent housing. Redwood Family House has a 100% success rate in achieving that goal.
Collecting Used Children’s Clothes - Until Sunday June 2nd we will continue to collect any new or clean gently used children’s spring/summer clothing your children have outgrown. Or your next door neighbors kids have outgrown. Just toss them in the marked box in the breezeway and Outreach will deliver them. Kids at Redwood Family House range in age from 3 months to 16. There are 12 girls (ages 3 months to 16) and 19 boys (ages 2 to 16). Questions, contact Kathy Kennedy at kennedyiti@aol.com or call/text her at 650-291-9678.
Seeking Hotel-sized Toiletries: Are you on vacation or going on one soon? If you picked up any travel size shampoo, conditioner, soap or lotion during your last hotel stay, you can donate them. Bring them to the box in the breezeway. And if you have a toothbrush or toothpaste your dentist gave you on your last visit that you have no use for, they could use that too. Children’s toiletries will be delivered to Redwood Family House in Redwood City. In May toiletries will be delivered to the Hoptel, a Life Moves short term shelter in East Palo Alto for low income veterans visiting the Veterans Hospital in Menlo Park for care.
Zoom Outreach Planning Meeting, 9:30. Join us on Tuesday May 14th as we begin summer planning. Joining us at 10:00 is Lynnelle Bilsey, Life Moves Volunteer Coordinator. To join click on
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88576256347?pwd=yyJgN9m6tVGj7byvOFqrhTlc1W3UVL.1 or use meeting id 885 7625 6347 with passcode 276581
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