Serving Others: Sharing the Love

The Mission of St. John's Outreach

We believe our hands on work and our financial contributions are making a meaningful impact on those less fortunate. We look forward to continuing to share God’s love and blessings abundantly and joyfully in the years ahead!

Outreach Activities

Hands on work as a congregation:

• Beautified Robeson Harrington Park in September with over 40 people participating
• Raised over $27,000 from the Tour de Noel
• Provided over 80 gifts with our Christmas Giving Tree program
• Donated over 100 coats in January to the homeless
• Raised over $1,200 from over 100 people as part of our UTO in March
• Donated 18 pints of blood from 30 donors during our two Blood Drive’s in March and June
• Delivered 80 beautiful overflowing Easter Baskets to the needy
• Painted the entire Canal Alliance facility with other churches and local organizations (90 gallons of paint, 25 offices, 90 people- 10 from  St John’s)
• Donated  $27,000 to charities (so far this year from Tour proceeds)
• Raised $21,000 for charities from the Rummage Sale
• Donated over 250 pounds of nutritious food to the Marin Community Food Bank during our Feed a Family Month in May
• Improved the lives of Mexican Orphans as 25 members of the parish went on the Family Mission Trip.  These families also raised $1,400 from the Fiesta Luncheon to buy school supplies and St John’s made an additional $1,000 grant to the orphanage for supplies.
• Delivered monthly meals to a local homeless shelter                

For more information on how you can ''Share the Love,'' please see the links below, come by the Outreach bulletin board in Hallet Hall at church, contact one of the outreach team members, or come to our outreach meetings.

Help us make a difference!

Outreach Calendar
Ongoing Outreach Activities

Outreach Beneficiaries

Financial support we provided to local, national and global organizations in 2007:

For more information on outreach, email outreach@stjohnsross.org

TO DO INSTEAD OF JUST TO PRAY

We cannot merely pray to you, O God, to end war; for we know that you have made the world in a way that humans must find their own path to peace
within themselves and with their neighbors.

We cannot merely pray to you, O God, to end starvation; for you have already given us the resources with which
to feed the entire world if only we would use them wisely.

We cannot merely pray to you, O God, to root out prejudice; for you have given us eyes with which to see the good in
all people if only we would use them rightly.

We cannot merely pray to you, O God, to end despair; for you have given us the power to end hopelessness and
poverty and to give hope if only we would use our power justly.
We cannot merely pray to you, O God, to end disease; for you have already given us great minds with which to search out cures and healing, if only we would use them constructively.
Therefore, we pray to you instead, O God, for strength, determination and will power to DO instead of just to pray, to BECOME instead of just to wish. AMEN.

-Jack Riemer, former chaplain to the Homeless

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