The entire congregation is invited to donate household items for this project, which is a fundraiser for our 40th anniversary celebration. Savers pays us for our donated items! People who sign up for this project will sort items and box or bag them for delivery to Savers. This team is limited to 15 people.

We’ll make mats from plastic grocery bags. This is a good project for those who need a project that can be done sitting down. Project Starfish distributes these mats to unhoused individuals to ensure they won’t have to sleep on the bare ground. No experience is necessary! Please start saving clean, dry plastic bags. Only the type of bag given at Walmart is useful for this project - please don’t bring any bags that are not that size and shape. Bags can be left in the big barrel outside the sanctuary any time before October 6. Learn more at: https://starfishproject21.org/

With the help of Facilities team, we’ll do many tasks to tidy up and make improvements in and around our own building: washing windows, cleaning under pews, sweeping, dusting, clearing fallen sticks and other chores. Bring a pair of work gloves if you want to work outside!

Help tie and bind a quilt for homeless relief, or make tactile quilts for nursing home residents with dementia. No sewing experience or supplies are necessary; we’ll teach you what to do for either project. (If you have a sewing machine and want to bring it to make tactile quilts, that’s great! But you don’t have to bring a sewing machine to do either project.)

Shalom House (at 2601 Ridge Avenue in KCK) operates a Transitional Living Program that offers support and resources to help vulnerable men find stability, permanent housing, self-sufficiency and hope for the future. We’ll prepare lunch for about a dozen residents and staff (Mission team will fund the cost of the food). *** Volunteers for this project must be at least 18, and can choose whether to stay and eat with the residents or return to church for lunch. The team for this project is limited to 5 people.

Hungry people are going to come back from their Workship projects and need lunch! Join this project to help prepare and serve lunch, set up Heartland Hall, and clean up afterwards. Everybody on this team (which is limited to 6 people) gets lunch for free!