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Local Outreach
For more information or to become involved contact Co-chairs Lew Allen lewallen@uga.edu and JoBeth Allen jobethal@uga.edu
We invite all interested members and friends of Oconee to join in these outreach endeavors:
- Serving 6 times a year at Our Daily Bread, the second Monday of Janurary, March, May, July, September, and November
- Serving with Princeton United Methodist Interfaith Hospitality Network every 13 weeks to provide meals, transportation, and other hospitality to families in transition
- Supporting Run/Walk for Home with water stations
- Staffing a Benevolence Market booth
- Working at an Athens site on the MLK Day of Service
- Supporting monthly missions in the community and around the world, including a 4 th Sunday “Community Pantry” offerings of items such as diapers, medical supplies, hygiene items, or socks
- Being in faithful conversation and mission with Jubilee Partners, including 4 th Sunday evening meals and worship
- Talking and acting through SACRED - Social Action as Christians Responding and Encouraging Dialogue
- SACRED-environment (working for stewardship of the environment)
- SACRED-peace (working for just and lasting peace and against war)
- SACRED-poverty (working for affordable housing, fair pay, alleviating hunger, affordable health services)
- SACRED-women (working for women’s equity and welfare)
- SACRED-gay rights (working for civil rights for gay and lesbian families)
- SACRED-immigrants (working for human rights for immigrants)
- SACRED-beloved community (working for improved relationships in Athens among African American, European American, and Latino communities)
- SACRED-international (working for global justice in war-torn countries such as Darfur, and responding to natural disasters)
- SACRED-educational equity (working for increased educational equity in Clarke County Public Schools, closing the achievement gap in graduation)
- Note: each SACRED group is composed of interested individuals and does not represent an Oconee Street position on any of these social issues.
Projects under development include:
- Working with the Habitat for Humanity small-church project
- Participating in the Equal Exchange interfaith Coffee Program
- Working with the UMC Hispanic Ministry
Members of Ministry Outreach SO FAR in 2007– you can always join!
Lew Allen
JoBeth Allen
Enrique Alpaugh
Jamie Calkin
Katie Calkin
Drew Davis
Joe Dennis
Carla Dennis
Beth Gavrilles
Mikell Gleason
Angela Helwig
Steve Helwig
Barry Nelson
Greg Smith, II
Mary Weisenburg
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