Christmas Mission Projects
The holiday season is approaching fast! This year we have three different choices on how we can help our community in need.
1.
Prologue Inc. is collecting donations of new toys (If your toy requires batteries, please include them with your gift.) and fast-food gift cards for children/teens who are experiencing homelessness. Prologue often falls short on gifts for preteens and teens. One suggestion is small denomination gift cards to fast food places. Favorites include Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s, and Subway. Please bring in your new unwrapped gift or gift cards by December 10th. We will deliver them to Prologue for distribution. Thank you!
2.
Araminta is asking for Visa or MasterCard gift cards to be given to survivors of human trafficking. Visa and MasterCard gift cards allow them to shop for their children at many different stores. You can either bring in gift cards or make a monetary donation and we will buy the cards. Please indicate Araminta on the memo line. Donations and/or cards should be in by December 17th.
3. Our Sunday School kids will be conducting a food drive to support the Cockeysville Food Pantry. The holiday season is a busy time and supplies often run low. The food pantry needs donations of non-perishable food. Items that often-run low are canned soup, canned fruit, mac and cheese and jelly. Check out the Sunday School’s display for a complete list. (Please no food with expired dates.)
Thanksgiving Meals
We will be partnering with ACTC (Assistance Center of Towson Churches) again this year to provide Thanksgiving meals to many in need in our community. Monetary donations will be used to purchase prepacked bags of food and perishables to make the Thanksgiving holiday meal special. The due date for donations for thanksgiving baskets is November 12th.
FELT – Feeding Empty Little Tummies
Since 2015 we have been providing children in need from Mays Chapel Elementary School with weekly backpacks of food so they have enough to eat over the weekends and breaks. This year we started out with 10 children. That number will fluctuate throughout the year as circumstances change or families relocate. These past few years have been especially hard for many families in our community. Making sure the children have nutritious meals when they aren’t in school enables them to concentrate in school and succeed in life. Thank you for your support in helping us with this very important mission. For monetary donations please mark your donation FELT. For food donations, please check with Dawn for a list of appropriate items.
Church World Service (CWS) was founded in 1946 and is a cooperative ministry of 37 Christian denominations and communions, providing sustainable self-help, development, disaster relief and refugee assistance around the world. The CWS mission is to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice at the national and international level through collaboration with partners abroad and in the US.
The Northern Baltimore County CROP Walk helps to end hunger by raising funds for programs locally and in over 30 countries around the world. 25% of the funds we raise will go directly to the Baltimore North Cluster Food Bank.
Please consider walking with us on September 24th at 2pm at Leister Park in Hampstead, MD. Donations can be made to CWS/CROP or online at https:/crophungerwalk.org/parktonmd
Thank you
78 Homeless Students (PreK-Community College) Need Our Help! They are from families that Prologue Inc. assist. Below is a breakdown of Students and also a list of School Supplies needed. Please bring your donations or check to church by August 6.
If you write a check, please include school supplies on the memo line and we’ll do the shopping! Thank you!!
Preschool-8, Lower Elem-18, Upper Elem–14, Middle School–15, High School-18, Comm College-5 students
School Supplies
Backpacks, Composition Books–Wide Rule, Crayons, Erasers–Cap,
Folders–2 Pocket Plastic/Poly with Prongs, Glue Sticks, Highlighters–Wide & Thin Tips, Markers–Dry Erase, Markers–Washable Wide Tip, Markers–Wide Tip, Notebook Paper–Wide Rule, Notebook Paper–College Rule, Pens, Pencils, Pencils–Color, Pencil Boxes,
Pencil Large Zipper Pouches, Pencil Sharpeners, Scissors, Spiral Notebooks–Wide Rule, Spiral Notebooks–College Rule
Manna House started out informally, handing out food bags to the poor and needy in the community. And grew from there.
In 1966 the Midtown Churches Community Association was incorporated.
In 1973 their soup kitchen was opened in a row house on St Paul St.
In 1986, through a grant, they were able to obtain additional resources for their clients.
In 1989 the soup kitchen and administrative offices moved to the current location at 435 E 25th St.
Over time they have added literacy programs and (MEET) mentoring, education, employability training. Midtown churches community association became Manna House Inc in 1994. They continually add resources for their clients. Health care for the homeless brings their van weekly to 25th St. case workers help clients obtain valid identification, transportation to health care appointments, case management, showers and clean clothes and much much more.
Mays Chapel has been a part of the breakfast club for many years. Manna house has been providing meals for those in need for over 50 years. This year they were able to obtain the restaurant next door and are close to completing a major renovation. Instead of a crammed 20 seat dining room there will be space for 50 people at a time. A greatly needed new kitchen facility will be available.
We are looking forward to serving breakfast again soon. At this time, they are still serving just Monday-Fridays. Volunteers are always needed to pack hygiene kits, sort clothes, and organize storage of donated items. There are other ways your time and talents can be used as shown on the website.mannahouseinc.org.
Mays Chapel collects travel size toiletries to donate for their hygiene kits.
Monetary donations are always needed. Please mark your donation “Manna House”.
Examples:
$10 donation purchases one Maryland Birth Certificate
$20 donation purchases a Maryland State ID
$50 purchases a pair of steel toed work boots.
Larger donations are used to purchase bus passes for clients to go to medical appointments or work. Also, for security deposits for housing.
As always, thank you for your faithful and generous support of Mays Chapel missions.
Our mission is to improve the quality of life and provide equal opportunities to people of all abilities through community development and employment services while raising public awareness.
Inspired by the success of our Expressive Arts Therapy program, we launched our Meaningful Day program in 2019. This is a Monday-Friday program that aims to provide an elevated experience for young adults with disabilities after they exit the educational system. Karina Association offers the Meaningful Day program via our approval as a Service Provider for DDA and DORS.
We provide Community Development Services to our participants, where they are immersed in their community via volunteering and hands-on learning opportunities. CDS fosters personal growth and development of new skills through engagement in community-based activities with people without disabilities. CDS provides the social support necessary to foster lasting relationships and a path to discover each individual’s niche for employment opportunities within the community. With encouragement and support, young adults identify their skills, interests, and needs, and work toward improving their ability to self-advocate. This journey of self-education is an ongoing process, as individual needs change over time.
We are also approved to provide Employment Services, including a variety of support to help Karina’s participants identify career and employment interests, as well as to find a niche for self-employment.
For enrollment information, please contact office@karinaassociation.org.