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Additional Fundraisers, Mission Trips, and Giving Opportunities happen throughout the year.  Contact the church office for information or check out the church calendar for special dates.  Below are current outreach ministries to reflect some of the many ways the Carroll United Methodist Church reaches out locally and to the world.

1. Bidwell Riverside
2. CROP WALK
3. Food Pantry
4. Garage Sale for Haiti
5. Haiti and other Global Missions (T-Shirt Sleeping mats, etc)  
6. Ingathering Relief Kits or see Information on Relief Kits
7. Nothing But Nets 
8. UM Giving Sundays  

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  Haiti & Chili has suffered greatly from the 2010 earthquake.  United Methodist have had a long-standing relationship with the United Methodist Churches in these countries.  UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) is offering a variety of assistance packages to families, including long-term access to potable water, cash for work activities to help clean up affected areas, school kits, cook stoves, and building materials. 

Gifts to support UMCOR's Haiti relief efforts can be made on-line at Haiti Emergency Advance #418325 or to Chile Emergency Advance #3021178. Checks can be placed in the offering plate or mailed to UMCOR, PO Box 9068, New York, NY 10087 with "Advance #__" in the memo line.  100% of gifts are given to help the people.

 

Be sure to check out the information page for additional UMCOR ministries.  

 

It takes approximately 72 regular sized T-shirts to make one crocheted sleeping mat.

Got old t-shirts? Bring new-old-used to the Church Sanctuary (overflow room) or drop off at the Church Office.  T-shirts will be crocheted into mats for the people of Haiti to sleep on. Such an easy mission, thanks for your help! For more information contact Donna Evans 794-0029.   Click here for how to turn T-shirts into crocheted mats.

 

 

 

 

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Our church & youth support the missions of Bidwell Riverside Center.  Bidwell has been in Des Moines since 1893.  In addition to a childcare center, they also have a food and clothing pantry.  Every year they help about 30,000 people.   At this time they need assistance with #1 money, #2 supplies, and #3 volunteers, in that order.

The charity is hoping their strong presence in the Des Moines community will help them ride out this latest storm that flooded them for the fourth time with sewer water.  Their pipes are 50-60 years old, and every time a 3 inch rain or heavier comes in a day's time, problems occur. 

If you would like to support Bidwell you can send a check to them through Carroll FUMC (memo "Bidwell") or go online to 'give' at Bidwell's website.

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CROP WALK

Carroll Community CROP Walk   Sunday, October 3   1:30 PM   Empower our churches to reach out to the world and also to our own neighbors.  A CROP walk is a 3 mile walk around the community. It stands for C-Communities R-Responding to O-Overcome P-Poverty. Crop Hunger Walks are the largest fund-raising event for Church World Service. The first walk was in 1960!   Want to reach out and do something? Donate or walk in this event and be a part of the first step to change.

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"Let the closet cleaning begin"

 

   Mission commission held a freewill donation on June 19.  Sold congregational donations of children's clothes, toys, household items, and etc...  (Not included adult clothing or furniture). 

Education Committee offered a bakesale, with proceeds  to VBS.

 

A big thank you to all who donated and/or attended the Garage Sale for Haiti!!  We made $612 toward Haiti relief by getting rid of our unused "treasures."   -- Mission Committee

 

 

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March Madness = Nothing But Nets    

Every 30 seconds someone dies from Malaria! 

       The month of March, members of the Mission Commission accepted your $10.00 donations and a tally of 137 nets were purchased!  Nothing But Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to raise awareness and funding to combat malaria, one of the largest killers of children in Africa. The United Methodist Church is one of four main sponsors of this campaign. 

 

   

 

 

 

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Carroll Community of Concern is the local food pantry.   

 "Feeding the 5,000" (sponsored by W.E. Team) a church/community collection of non-perishable items for the local food pantry.  Goal was to reach at least 5,000 donations.  Started in January of 2010 the church ministries reach almost 4,000 items by end of April.  Way to go FUMC... let's see if we can exceed our goal next year.

 

Photo of the UM Kids helping count the many items.   

 

 

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United Methodist Giving Sundays

Human Relations Day	(Sunday before the national observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday) strengthens United Methodist outreach to communities in the United States and Puerto Rico, encouraging social justice and work with at-risk youth. More
One Great Hour of Sharing	(Fourth Sunday in Lent) enables the United Methodist Committee on Relief to reach out through worldwide ministries of food, shelter, health and peace. More
Native American Ministries Sunday	(Third Sunday of Easter) nurtures mission with Native Americans and provides scholarships for United Methodist Native American seminarians. More
Peace with Justice Sunday	(First Sunday after Pentecost) enables The United Methodist Church to have a voice in advocating for peace and justice through a broad spectrum of global programs. More
World Communion Sunday	(First Sunday of October) provides scholarships for U.S. (racial- and ethnic-minority) students and international students, on both undergraduate and graduate levels. More
United Methodist Student Day	(Last Sunday of November) furnishes scholarships and loans for students attending United Methodist-related and other accredited colleges and universities. More

    

      The Six Annual Giving Sundays enable United Methodists to offer refuge in times of disaster, promote peace and justice, provide scholarships and student loans, reach out to the community, teach skills to encourage self-sufficiency and share the love of Jesus Christ with God's people everywhere.  Connected together with our gifts, we can do big things.

 

 

 

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Ingathering Kits

Ingathering happens yearly the first Saturday of November.  Kit items need to be collected by the weekend prior for delivery and packaging.  Check out the Kit needs or view the Iowa United Methodist Conference website [http://www.iaumc.org/] for details. 

"It is time again to begin "gathering" for Ingathering!! Please see lists at 'kit needs'.  All supplies need to be dropped off to the church by October 31st, but many of the school kit materials are on sale now, so its never too early to start!  If you would prefer to have the Mission Commission do the shopping for you...we would be glad to do so! Just mark your donations as such.  Please feel free to call (792-1136) or email (dnbaack@gmail.com) Nancy Baack if you have questions. 

Thank you for your continuing support!!"

Nancy Baack, Missions Chair 

P.S.  If you subscribe to National Geographic, we can use those as a credit toward our shipping charges, so please save them for us.   

 

 

 

 

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