Community Service in Austin
Freeze Night Shelter
St. Martin's is a Freeze Night Shelter on Fridays.
On Friday Evening when the temperature is freezing, St. Martin's will be called on to house 25 or more homeless men for the evening to keep them out of the cold.
We always need volunteers who can:
- make and serve dinner AND/OR
- spend a few hours over night OR/AND
- make and serve breakfast
If you would like to be a volunteer, please contact Pr. June at jwilkins@saintmartins.org and let her know what job you would like to do.
This will probably happen once or twice this winter. If you sign up now, you are not committing to be there every Friday, just to be on the call list of willing volunteers when we do have a Friday freeze. We will be notified by noon of that day. A volunteer orientation will be scheduled. Sign up for one or more things!
UPDATE: Our first Freeze Night was a great success! For future freezes, we are in need of blankets for our guests and also funds for the food costs. If you have any blankets or money that you are not using, please bring them to pastor June's office! (Checks can be put in the collection plate and made to St. Martin's with freeze night in the memo line.)
On Friday Evening when the temperature is freezing, St. Martin's will be called on to house 25 or more homeless men for the evening to keep them out of the cold.
We always need volunteers who can:
- make and serve dinner AND/OR
- spend a few hours over night OR/AND
- make and serve breakfast
If you would like to be a volunteer, please contact Pr. June at jwilkins@saintmartins.org and let her know what job you would like to do.
This will probably happen once or twice this winter. If you sign up now, you are not committing to be there every Friday, just to be on the call list of willing volunteers when we do have a Friday freeze. We will be notified by noon of that day. A volunteer orientation will be scheduled. Sign up for one or more things!
UPDATE: Our first Freeze Night was a great success! For future freezes, we are in need of blankets for our guests and also funds for the food costs. If you have any blankets or money that you are not using, please bring them to pastor June's office! (Checks can be put in the collection plate and made to St. Martin's with freeze night in the memo line.)
Mobile Loaves and Fishes
St. Martin's has been working with MLF since 2004 along with the other downtown churches, preparing sandwiches in our own downtown kitchen at First United Methodist Church at 12th and Lavaca.
Mobile Loaves and Fishes needs donations of small toiletries and bite-size candies! Bring your travel shampoo, soaps, toothpastes and bags of candy to St. Martin's for our Mobile Loaves and Fishes runs for homeless and hungry people. You can put them in the collection box in the narthex.
"Bringing food, clothing and dignity to our brothers and sisters in need."
www.mobileloavesandfishes.org
Mobile Loaves and Fishes needs donations of small toiletries and bite-size candies! Bring your travel shampoo, soaps, toothpastes and bags of candy to St. Martin's for our Mobile Loaves and Fishes runs for homeless and hungry people. You can put them in the collection box in the narthex.
"Bringing food, clothing and dignity to our brothers and sisters in need."
www.mobileloavesandfishes.org
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity welcomes volunteers of all faiths to transform houses and whole neighborhoods from unlivable and in disrepair into livable--yet still affordable. A three-month building project builds and renovates decent housing for low-income families in Austin. Volunteers of all kinds are needed. Lutheran building projects are scheduled once a year. www.austinhabitat.org
Saturday, April 19, 2008 was the Habitat Ecumenical Build when St. Martin's joined with other Austin-area churches to work at 6905 Frontera Trail. The build was in the Montopolis area--right around the corner from last year's build in a neighborhood of all new Habitat homes. Homeowner Alice Rendon has a 19-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son.
Saturday, April 19, 2008 was the Habitat Ecumenical Build when St. Martin's joined with other Austin-area churches to work at 6905 Frontera Trail. The build was in the Montopolis area--right around the corner from last year's build in a neighborhood of all new Habitat homes. Homeowner Alice Rendon has a 19-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son.
Hands on Housing
St. Martin's works several times a year with Austin Area Interreligious Ministries (AAIM) to help low-income people make their homes safer and more livable. Work days are in the Spring and Fall.
Learn more about AAIM by visiting their website: www.aaimaustin.org
Learn more about AAIM by visiting their website: www.aaimaustin.org
CROP Walk
CROP Walk for Hunger is an annual nationwide event sponsored locally by AAIM. On Saturday, March 1, five St. Martin's members participated in the 30th Annual CROP Walk: Judy Seymore, Donna Cordes, Jim Volkema, Kent Mickelson, and Bob Gibbons. Thanks to the generosity of St. Martin's members, $1745 was raised to meet hunger and health needs of the needy around the world. Our CROP Walk team would like to thank those members who helped support this worthy cause.
To learn more, visit the AAIM site.
To learn more, visit the AAIM site.
The Care Communities
The mission of The Care Communities (formerly Interfaith Care Alliance) is to provide practical and compassionate support through care teams for people living with serious illness. Our vision is to have a caring community where no one will face a serious illness alone. For more information, please contact The Care Communities at 459-5883 or thecarecommunities.org.
