As part of this year's Stewardship campaign, we are celebrating all the ways that we, as a parish, embody "Cheerful Giving." Outreach is a clear, tangible example of cheerful contribution of time, talent & treasure by many of us.
Here are some (not all) examples:
• Eliot Church Monthly Meal - over 1000 served this year by a enthusiastic crew and some of the best meatloaves in New England!
• Chocolate Festival - over the past decade we have contributed in excess of $15,000 to area food pantries through our highly attended event. We all know the amount of effort needed to pull this off...Cheerfully.
• Westford Food Pantry benefits from hundreds of pounds of food from our ongoing collections. Especially critical in last few years.
• Lowell Wish Project Christmas campaign - we have been able to make hundreds of families and individuals holiday's just a little brighter, and its a really fun to shop for "boy - 3 years old, needs hat & gloves and a puzzle".
• Trinity School in Haiti - we provide 100s of dollars a year to help provide education and a safe place for kids in Haiti.
• Merrimack Valley Project - an important social justice organization that has driven important reforms in foreclosure processing and housing availability. The organization recognized our own Fran Fletcher this year for her work on the Walk for Hunger.
This all happens because of the sacrifice, passion, and joy of the St. Mark's members.
Remember that the foundation for these programs is the Stewardship of supporting St. Mark's itself.
-- Scott Hilton
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