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SOCIAL OUTREACH

Advent's Social Outreach Committee organizes events that benefit the local community, and national and international efforts in humanitarian support. Throughout the calendar year, the team leads and participates in various fundraisers and "drives" which allow Advent members to share in giving, along with operating a food bank for the surrounding area.

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Our Projects​

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SOCIAL OUTREACH NEWS

Community Food Drive collects literal ton of food

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Advent Lutheran delivered — literally — more than a ton of food (2196 pounds) to the Growing Home Food Pantry in May!

 

THANK YOU to everyone who helped by spreading the word and collecting, sorting, and delivering the food. It took 2 pickup trucks and 2 SUVs to load it all.

 

Growing Home was impressed and very appreciative that Advent had already sorted and labeled items. Many items were immediately put out on the shelves because the food pantry was out of those items. Thank you for supporting another way of living into Advent's mission: "So All May Know Christ's Love."​

Community Food Drive

Hope House Meals

 

Advent members provide a lunch or dinner monthly to the clients and staff at Hope House. We can always use help! If you would like to help, contact Karen Trinidad or Joan LaRose.

Hope House Meals

School Supply Drive - 7/19 - 8/19

 

Please support our annual School Supply Drive for Gregory Hills Learning Center! Donations from the supply list, below, should be dropped off in the brightly colored bus in the narthex.

 

If you’d rather make a monetary donation, please indicate "School Supply Drive" on your check or envelope. One of the Social Outreach Committee members will be happy to shop the sales.

 

Supplies needed:

  • washable markers

  • watercolor paints

  • playdough

  • pencil boxes

  • bottles of glue

  • glue sticks

  • dry erase markers (thin)

  • safety scissors

  • colored pencils

  • crayons

  • facial tissue

  • hand sanitizer

  • paper towels

  • Ziploc bags (quart and gallon)

  • child size backpacks

School Supply Drive

Social Outreach Mission Statement

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Advent’s Social Outreach team strives to share the hospitality and warmth of Advent with others so “All May Know Christ’s Love." The team organizes events throughout the year to so members of our congregation can share their blessings with others.


Our team is always looking to do more for our local neighbors in need. Through programs like Advent's Food Bank, the annual school supply drive, the coat drive, the cap and mitten tree tree, and providing gifts for children who might not have any on Christmas, we hope we are making life a little easier for our immediate community.    


We also strive to care for our brothers and sisters in the Rocky Mountain Synod and throughout the world who are served by the ELCA. We hold an annual fundraiser to support ELCA global gifts, and encourage Advent members to contribute to Lutheran World Relief. Christ tells us to take care of our brothers and sisters. The Social Outreach team provides the opportunities for members of Advent to give to those who need to know that Christ and their neighbors care for them.

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