Volunteers from Caregiving and Youth working together on a project.
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SOS Soup Kitchen Completes 3rd Year of Feeding the Hungry
The Soup Kitchen completed its 3rd year of feeding the hungry in our community with a fabulous meal of grilled burgers and hot dogs with barbeque appropriate sides served by Holy Cross. The 104 patrons served that evening were very complimentary. During this past year a total of 2,421.5 volunteer hours were logs by volunteers […]
Read More Caregiving, Community, SOS Soup Kitchen, Thank you!, VolunteersHonoring our Military!

In our May Messenger we would like to honor all of our members who are currently serving in our United States Military. Please provide a photo along with title, name, and where they are stationed. You may bring the photos to the office and we can scan them for you or you can email them […]
Read More Caregiving, MilitaryThank you to everyone who donated and served!

Thanks to everyone who donated blood or who served as a volunteer at our Blood Drive. 20 units were collected and will be used to help the sick and injured! Remember, Holy Cross usually hosts Blood Drives in September and March!
Read More Caregiving, Community, Thank you!, VolunteersCard Patrol

Our next Card Patrol Meeting is Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. in the library. We are looking for more people to get involved with this ministry. If you serve on Card Patrol, you send 2 cards per week to families in our church to remind them Holy Cross cares. We will provide you with […]
Read More Card Patrol, Caregiving, VolunteersComfort Dog Ministry

Looking for Caregivers and Handlers We are now in the process of selecting the caregivers and handlers for our Comfort Dog. The caregiver is who the dog lives with and is the person responsible for feeding and grooming the dog and taking the dog to the vet. In addition to a primary caregiver, we need […]
Read More Caregiving, Comfort Dog, VolunteersComfort Dog Ministry

There is more good news as Comfort Dog Ministry continues to move forward at Holy Cross! St. Paul Troy wanted to support Comfort Dog Ministry as a mission and was going to send money to Lutheran Church Charities, but upon finding out we had applied for a Comfort Dog, they decided they wanted to support […]
Read More Caregiving, Comfort Dog, Fundraising, Thank you!Blood Drive

BLOOD DRIVE TUESDAY, MARCH 11 2:00-6:30 p.m. Fellowship Center Please contact the church office to sign up for an appointment to donate blood or sign up online by visiting redcrossblood.org and entering Sponsor Code: HolyCrossLC You may also call the office to sign up to serve as a volunteer for an hour or so during the […]
Read More Caregiving, Red Cross Blood Drive, VolunteersComfort Dog Ministry

You can make a donation to our Comfort Dog Ministry Fund at any time! We are looking to build up our fund so that we can cover costs of the dog and of outreach we will be doing. You may use the Comfort Dog Ministry envelopes available in the racks as you come in and […]
Read More Caregiving, Comfort Dog, Fundraising, VolunteersCollecting Food for the Soup Kitchen

In addition to serving a hot meal every week, the S.O.S. Soup Kitchen also sends a sack lunch home with each patron for the next day. To support this effort, the Care Giving Board will be collecting peanut butter, jelly and fruit cups through the month of February. Please help support this ministry to those […]
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