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Habitat for Humanity
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Southeastern Ecumenical Ministry
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Inter-Parish Ministries
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Once Around Thrift Shop
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Greater Anderson Promotes
Peace
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Wernle Orphanage in Indiana
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First Lutheran Church,
Over-the-Rhine
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St. Peter Claver School,
Over-the-Rhine
Prayer Shawls
and Chemo Caps
Can you knit or crochet? Would you
like to learn?
If interested, please contact Pam (474-
1499) to discuss days and times to meet.
 Pastor
Zorn Honored for Work by ELCA
Read
all about it!
Earth Ministry Team
 By
now, I think everyone knows the big green and yellow box in the back of
our parking lot is for paper recycling. I am really hoping that most
folks are trying to help us put this to good use. For those who have
yet to remember to use this program, I thought this article might serve as
a reminder and whether you are using it yet or not, you might like a
little more information.
The Abitibi Paper Retriever Program is simple. It is a free paper
recycling service. We are not charged for the bin or for the pick-up
of paper. In fact, Abitibi Paper Retriever pays us for the paper
collected in the bin. Now, granted, the amount is not huge, but the
more we recycle the more money we raise. The amounts we are paid are
based on a monthly scale:
0 to 3.99 tons = $5 per ton
4 to 7.99 tons = $15 per ton
8 tons or more = $20 per ton
The bin, when it is full, will have between 1 and 2 tons of paper in it.
This means that if we can fill it once a week for pick-up, we have the
potential to make the maximum amount of money from this one simple
program. You do the math: 8 tons of paper in one month
would yield $160. If we can do this every month that’s almost $2,000
a year, just for being “Earth Friendly Folks.”
My challenge to you is to try to help us accomplish this goal. If
you live within a 3 to 5 mile radius of the church, chances are most of
your neighbors drive by our church on a regular basis. There are
several Abitibi Paper Retrievers in the Anderson area, and if your
neighbors are trying to be better recyclers, chances are they may be using
one of these bins. Why not ask them to use ours? If you don’t
live relatively close to church, I am hoping that you will at least bring
your own paper recyclables each week when you come to LCR for service,
meetings, events, etc. It’s only a matter of establishing the
“habit.” My husband and I have two bins we keep in the basement.
We put all of our paper in one and bring it to church. We put all of
our cardboard in the other and take it to the paper plant on Wooster Road
when we are headed in that direction -- usually about once a week.
So, you see, a little bit of thought, a tiny bit of effort and we are
putting much less into the landfill every week and helping the church with
extra income that doesn’t come out of our budget. WIN! WIN!
Thanks for giving consideration to helping us reach this goal.
 Learn
about our new relationship with the Lutheran Church in Guatemala.
Fair Trade
 Coffee
The second Sunday of each month we
will have Fair Trade coffee for sale for $6/bag in support of
Fair Trade.
We will also have other fair trade items, such as tea and hot chocolate.
Fair trade coffee will be served at our Fellowship time after service.
If you wish, you may sponsor the coffee by signing up on the board in the
Narthax.
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Bottled Water???
It’s getting warm and we are beginning to think more
about something to drink, particularly water. Before you reach for that
bottle of water think about some cold hard facts first.
Here’s a few citations from the ELCA’ s excellent
2008 Lenten Reflections on the
Living Earth.
“It’s outrageous to pay 1000 times more for water in
a bottle than from the tap. But that didn’t stop Americans from drinking
26 billion liters of bottled water in 2004, more than any other country in
the world.” (Citation from National Geographic News, 2004.)
“Consider the environmental costs. The plastic used
for the bottles is derived from crude oil. To meet U.S. demands, 17
million barrels of crude oil goes into water bottles, enough for 1 million
U.S. cars for a year!” (Citation from Newsweek, “Bottled Water Isn’t
Better Than Tap”).
“All these distressing facts still don’t address the
terrible problem of plastic bottles in our landfills which if not recycled
properly will last for 1000 years! Attempts to incinerate the plastic
results in producing chlorine and contaminated ash.”
At your next social gathering put out a pitcher of
ice cold tap water instead of bottled water. Then sit back and enjoy the
beauty of a summer’s day drinking what for many on our planet is an
unimaginable gift.
Miracles in a Box
Many of you probably
don’t know what
Operation Christmas Child (OCC)
is, but start saving up your
shoeboxes!
Next fall you will
have the opportunity to fill a shoebox or donate various items to help
send gift boxes to children around the world for Christmas.
OCC is run by
Samaritan’s Purse and you can go on the website for more information at
www.samaritanspurse.org.
I will be giving
you more information about this new outreach plan over the summer.
Also, Thrivent
Financial will be helping us support shipping costs for this wonderful
ministry.
We
will be collecting non-perishable goods for the
SEM Food Bank on the
second weekend of each month in conjunction with our Fair-Trade coffee
sale. Our goal is to encourage you to “think locally – think globally” as
we wrestle with the issue of hunger in the world.
We will be collecting these products each
month: cleaning products; baby products; personal care products; and
boxed cereal and jelly.
 A
grocery cart
will be positioned at the entrance to the church for collection. If you
have any questions, contact any members of the Outreach Committee.
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