RESTORE ST. CHARLES

Volunteers,

 

We will be holding our next Restore St. Charles workday this Saturday, November 20th.   

 

 Scheduled work for Saturday includes the following:

1. YARD WORK:                             

We plan to support our friends at Emmaus Homes by conducting yard work at the site of one of their community homes.  

 

2.   DECK REPLACEMENT:                                     

We will address a safety issue with the front porch of a homeowner by dismantling an existing entry deck that poses safety concerns and replacing it with a new deck and stairs.

 

3.   DECK REMOVAL:

We will address a safety issue by dismantling an existing deck that is in poor condition.

 

4.   INTERNAL REPAIRS:

We will support a previous client by replacing a toilet and hanging external shutters.

 

5.   RAKE LEAVES:

We plan to support an elderly homeowner with raking leaves in her back yard.  We have been supporting this homeowner with this project for several years now.

 

Through the first ten months of this this year we have supported 52 worksites with 181 volunteers totaling nearly 1319 volunteer hours. We appreciate your dedication to helping your neighbors in need.

 

We gather at Dardenne Presbyterian Church (7400 South Outer 364, just east of Bryan Road). We begin at 8:00AM with safety instructions, continental breakfast, and work site selection.

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Thanks in advance for your contribution to our work. Without you, we can do nothing!

 

If your objective is to change the world, what better place to begin than to help your neighbor in need?!

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Restore St. Charles  is a faith based program that focuses on serving through restoring the community around us. Their mission is to restore lives, hope, and faith by restoring homes and properties. We organize volunteers, churches, and sponsors to make a real difference. Find more information on their website.

O.A.S.I.S. FOOD CHALLENGE

We missed our annual OASIS Food Drive Challenge this spring, so we'd like to encourage you to take the opportunity to support the OASIS Food Pantry through the following event.

SHRED Your PAPERS While We FILL the PANTRY!

Please ​join ​Cross Rivers Financial for a drive-thru paper shredding event while at the same time supporting our local OASIS Food Pantry. Let’s make a BIG impact and pass along some of our blessings to the local community!


We will be collecting non-perishable food items and/or monetary donations as a free-will donation for OASIS Food Pantry during the shred event!

DOUBLE YOUR DONATION - for every food item you donate Cross Rivers Financial will match it, doubling your donation. (Limit of $1000 of food items)

THIS IS A CONTACTLESS EVENT.
Please have all your food donations and documents to be shredded in your trunk or trunk bed. Limit of 3 legal sized boxes filled with documents to be shredded per car.

EVENT DETAILS:
Saturday, May 22, 2021
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Thrivent Office
1144 South Benton Avenue
Saint Charles, MO 63301

REGISTER AT: https://bit.ly/3xY8QUa

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The O.A.S.I.S. Food Challenge is an annual friendly competition held among some St. Charles County Churches in the spring. Its focus is to restock the pantry shelves in the post-holiday lull. The Challenge will be back in February, so be on the look out!

LINKS WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM​

​our MIssion:​​

WE WANT TO ensure that some of our neediest students have access to nutritious, kid-friendly, and easy to prepare food on the weekends throughout the school year.

 

BECAUSE students whose families rely on free breakfast and lunch served at school may struggle financially to provide healthy food for their students on the weekends.

 

CONSEQUENCES of hunger and poor nutrition can lead to:

  • Weaker immune system

  • Shorter attention span

  • Lower IQ

  • Lower academic achievement

 

HELP BY donating either food items or money (which is converted into food). Your donations are taken weekly to the schools' counselors who pack a variety of food items into a bag then, confidentially, pass these weekend bags to the identified students on Fridays, prior to dismissal.

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Your support, as always, is truly appreciated! Below are the items we consistently need. You can purchase them and drop them off at church, or order them at the links provided:

CAMP PENUEL

Camp Penuel in Ironton, MO, on Lake Killarney was established to bring joy, hope and the fulfillment of knowing the love of Jesus to under-privileged and at-risk children. They provide a free week of Christian summer camp to children 7-11 years old from cities as far away as Oklahoma City, Memphis, and Chicago. For more information on their mission, visit their website.

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