Pioneer’s Day of Mission 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
What an AMAZING Day!!!
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What an amazing day it was! 164 volunteers from Pioneer Church helping people in need throughout the community! Painting, yard work, food pantry sorting, cookie baking, card making, and all of the support to make it happen -- wow, what a lot of work that got done!
We started the day at 8:30am with a bountiful breakfast and a time of devotion, then headed out in teams of 6—25 people to be the hands and feet of Christ. Wearing our new-for-the-occasion red "Pioneer's Day of Mission" t-shirts, we went out like the red sea to make a difference in the community. Listed below are the mission sites for this, our first Day of Mission.
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Mission Sites
Chagrin Falls Park Community Center
Team Leader: June Bolenbaugh
Pioneer has a long relationship with this center that provides a food pantry, day care, senior adult services, and recreation programs for the Chagrin Falls Park community. Projects: Organizing and cleaning the food pantry, painting parking lot stripes.
City Church & Bridge of Hope Center Team Leader: Tom McClure
City Church is a congregation in the inner-city that has extensive community outreach providing both a food pantry and activities for children and youth in Cleveland. Project: Clean pantry area, pre-pack grocery bags for families who will visit the center, assist elderly and disabled clients get their food bags to their cars, yard work.
City Mission
Team Leader: Caroline McClendon
The City Mission is one of Cleveland’s oldest ministries providing care for the city’s poorest and most marginalized citizens. They serve over 11,000 people annually with shelter, food, clothing, after school programs, and spiritual support. Project: Details to be announced.
The Emergency Assistance Center
Team Leader: Lindsey & Bruce May
This food pantry provides canned foods and staple items for families in need in the Macedonia area. Project: Clean, organize, and sort food in pantry.
The Gathering Place
Team Leader: Lindsay Fallert
The Gathering Place is a caring community that supports, educates and empowers individuals and families touched by cancer through programs and services provided free of charge. They are just moving into their new facility in Westlake and need our help! Projects: Yard cleanup, setting up shelving in a storage closet, organizing games, toys and supplies, setting up library.
New Life Fellowship
Team Leaders: Sara & Kevin Hill, Sandy Newberry, Tom Traylor
Our good friends at New Life Fellowship, a Presbyterian new church development, do so much in their community from providing a worshipping community to food baskets to summer youth basketball program. Project: They have a whole floor of classrooms that need to be prepped and painted, and will be working alongside our group to get it done.
North Presbyterian Church
Team Leader: Don Shook
North Church carries out an active ministry through a vibrant worship community, community meals, and an outreach to homeless and street people and those experiencing mental illness. Projects: Yard clean-up, cleaning balcony inside sanctuary, clean van interior.
Recovering Women Half-Way House
Team Leader: Christa Acker
We’ve met folks from this organization when Taste Catering provided dinner for Wednesday Night Live last year. They provide supportive services and help women in recovery from substance abuse get on their feet again. Project: Prep and paint two bathrooms.
Mission Projects at Pioneer
On-Site Mission Activity Center
Team Leader: Jamie Traylor, Amy & Patrick Wilson
For those who prefer to not go “off-site” we will have a multi-faceted activity center here at Pioneer to do mission projects benefiting a variety of groups. Projects: Card making for at-home members, cookie baking, care package assembly for military personnel, and staffing child care for the day.
Breakfast & Hospitality Crew
Team Leader: Sherrie Reynolds
Pioneer’s Day of Mission will start off with breakfast together and a brief devotional. This crew will organize and prepare breakfast for the rest of us, including set up and clean up. This crew will be done early in the day.