Social Action

FOOD MINISTRY SUNDAY IS SEPTEMBER 14: Thank you for your continued help with our food ministries! Our next Food Ministry Sunday is September 14 (this is moving  from the first Sunday of the month for September because of our worship and picnic at Porter Township Recreation Park on September 7). The Howard Food Bank accepts food donations that help keep families fed in our area. Our outdoor food pantry continues to be a great service to the community. Monetary and/or food donations of all kinds are appreciated. Checks for the Howard Food Bank may be made out to Howard Food Bank. Checks to help our food pantry may be made out to St. Mark Lutheran and on the memo line write, “Outdoor Pantry.” You also can give online using our online giving platform Tithely. Visit https://bit.ly/3bhr907. Thank you again for your ongoing generosity!

DONATIONS FOR “COME-BACK BACKPACKS”: When people in prison are released after serving their time in prison, they start their new life with virtually nothing. The Center for Alternatives in Community Justice is trying to help this situation by providing a released prisoner with a backpack full of personal supplies to help them through this new phase of life. They are first starting this effort with female prisoners released from Centre County Prison and later will attempt to also help male prisoners who are released. 

During the month of September, St. Mark’s Social Action Committee is collecting items for the “Come-Back Backpacks.” We are asking for your help by purchasing one or more of these items and placing them in the backpack box that will be in the narthex. Among the items needed are: stick deodorant, notepads, rolls of toilet paper, small boxes of cotton swabs, packages of sanitary napkins, packages of tampons, and small boxes of Band-Aids. They are hoping to have 10 of each of the items. Thank you for your support. If you have any questions or would like to help with ministry, contact Pastor David.

CHRISTMAS IS COMING!: St. Mark is bringing back the Holiday Open House event on December 6. More details will be coming.