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Ways to Serve in Denton - Summer 2010Summer Lunch Program To volunteer, please complete the volunteer form and bring it to the church office. Please also notify Leslie Kregel of your interest. On the day you’re to serve, you need to arrive around 11:45, receive the lunch supplies and then smile and hand the lunches to the children. Complete some simple paperwork for the program and you’ll be through no later than 1:00pm or so. Contact: Leslie Kregel, 940.390.2873, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Apple Tree Project You are invited to participate in any of the following ways: St. Andrew Contact: Cindy Howell, 940.591.9758, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Hearts for Homes St. Andrew Contact: Leslie Kregel, 940.390.2873, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it For more information about Hearts for Homes, visit their website: www.heartsforhomes.org St. Andrew Tote Bags Ongoing Ways to Serve Denton
Our Daily Bread is a community soup kitchen that serves a noon meal M-F in St. Andrew’s Fellowship Hall. This broadly based ecumenical endeavor reaches out in Christ's name with volunteers from diverse churches—Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, ELCA Lutherans, Missouri Synod Lutherans, non-denominational Christians, members of the Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, Baptists, and Episcopalians. The Children's Place preschool program is another form of outreach to children at St. Andrew. TCP runs concurrently with the Denton ISD schedule, which means that it is closed during the summer months. The Treehouse is our after-school program for elementary aged students from two Denton elementary schools. On each school day, 25 children come to St. Andrew for a healthy snack, recreation, help with homework, and the support of adults who care about them. Two paid staff persons are assisted each day by members of the church who volunteer their time for this outreach ministry of the church. Those parents who are able (and not everyone is) are asked to pay $10 per semester to help defray the cost of supplies. Other than that, the church makes possible the salaries and program expenses of this ministry in action. Give-a-Meal is the monthly food drive coordinated by the diaconate's Community Outreach committee. They provide us with a menu for a nutritious meal and we bring the staples to the collection box by the Coke machine near Fellowship Hall. The committee members take the food we donate to the Denton Community Food Bank at the end of the month. Presbyterian Women provides a variety of mission efforts, from sewing and handwork for newborns on the fourth Tuesday morning of the month, to collecting cancelled stamps for mission work in the Congo and BoxTops for Education for the Menaul School in New Mexico.
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Various groups at St. Andrew work with community agencies and organizations to help meet the needs of others in our city. We partner with Interfaith Ministries on the Apple Tree project, which helps provide low income children with much-needed new clothing and school supplies. We participate in the Summer Lunch Program, which is spearheaded by the City of Denton Parks & Recreation department; we help serve a sack lunch to the children at the Fairway apartments M-F during June, July, and early August. We help HOPE, Inc., provide Mother's Day Gift Bags for their clients in May each year. And the Community Outreach committee organizes and collects food for the Denton Community Food Bank in their ongoing food drive called Give-A-Meal every month.
Habitat for Humanity of Denton County and St. Andrew partnered last fall on a house building venture in Sanger, Texas. Last summer women from St. Andrew participated in a Women Build at 612 Wilson Street in Denton.