Volunteers Needed! St. Paul’s assists families without homes through Family Promise of Wake County (formerly WIHN). Our week is April 30-May 7, 2017. This is a wonderful “hands-on” outreach opportunity, both for adults and for families, to serve the homeless. Click HERE to sign up. Continue reading for more.
Photos of Welcome Party for Refugee Family, held February 26, 2017 are posted HERE.
Even though the toilet paper collection for January, 2017 was snowed out, parishioners still managed to donate 360 rolls of toilet paper during the first 3 weeks. This is important to the Dorcas Ministry Food Pantry since it is one item that can’t be purchased with Food Stamps. For this reason, we will do the toilet paper collection on the 2nd Sunday every month. The next collection will be February 12. Continue reading for more on Dorcas Ministries.
We can use your old mobile phones! If you have recently upgraded to a new phone, or are planning to do so soon, please consider donating your old mobile phone to our Refuge for Refugees (R4R) Ministry. You can leave them in the R4R box in the church office. Questions or need a receipt? Email…
Wheels4Hope thanks St. Paul’s for helping to successfully achieve very aggressive vehicle placement and sales goals in 2016! Wheels4Hope Raleigh placed 154 vehicles with local families last year, which is its primary mission. One of those placements occurred at the Wheels4Hope Car Blessing held at St. Paul’s in October. Continue reading for more.
St. Paul’s has half of a shelf in the Dorcas Ministry Food Pantry. That half shelf is our commitment to provide half of the toilet paper needed for the Food Pantry to give 1 roll per family member per month to the families identified through the Crisis Ministry. The Food Pantry helps about 400 families each month. Our next toilet paper drive will be Jan 15, 2017 (moved out from Jan 8 due to weather). Continue reading for more….
Photos are posted of the Arts and Crafts Festival for Outreach, held Nov 12, 2016. Click HERE for pictures. We were able to raise $5964 for outreach. Our single largest contribution was from Prayer Stitchers, who raised $1638. Thanks to you all!
Heifer International invites us to give Christmas donations to help struggling families around the world lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. Our donations placed in the Heifer Ark on Sunday mornings buy working animals for families in need. Continue reading for more….
Thanks to the Cary Ten Thousand Villages Store, friends of St. Paul’s Outreach ministries can shop once for the holidays and see their gift multiplied. This Friday, December 2 from 5 to 8 p.m., St. Paul’s Outreach will receive a percentage of all sales made at the store. Continue reading for more.
The St. Nicholas Advent tree is up and is decorated with over 400 tags identifying needy children served by local agencies that support seasonal farmworker families, orphans and vulnerable children, homeless families, families of recovering addicts, and families in need of reasonable housing. Please take one or more of the tags from the tree. Continue Reading for more….