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Focus on Local Service and Mission Opportunities

“Use your freedom to serve one another in love.” (Galatians 5:13, New Living Translation)

Focusing on Local Service and Mission is a refinement and continuation of a 2011 goal in which we recognize the passion that St. Philip’s has for causes that serve the community. In 2012, we will look for opportunities to use our skills/talents/experience to meet the needs of the community by offering four opportunities for the church to serve the community as the hands and feet of Christ.

Austin Disaster Relief Network is one of our Missions Outreach partners. The needs listed below offer opportunities for St. Philip's to live our 2012 Goal to "Focus on Local Service and Mission." Thanks for prayerfully considering how you can help. Please, share with us - by comment on this blog, or contacting our Church Office - how you will participate.

Thanks!

JANUARY CLEAN-UP OPPORTUNITIES in BASTROP NEW VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Dear Bastrop/Spicewood Volunteers, Officials are projecting that Bastrop Relief efforts like most likely take 3-4 years to rebuild every home.   In Spicewood, most likely over 1 year.  Unfortunately, 790 families did not have insurance and FEMA  only provided a maximum of $30,400 (minus any other relief expenses already given to a family).   This leaves the church, ministries, and local community to come up with the remaining dollars to  rebuild every families home (an additional $40k in materials per home with volunteer labor) and  volunteer labor force to keep costs down. In order to accomplish this God-sized task (all things  are possible with God!), ADRN is asking every volunteer to commit in this new year, minimally  one day over the next two months to the following clean-up efforts (love in action!): 1. Debris & Ash Clean-up: We will be cleaning up approx. 2-3 homes per weekend until the  end of January. Please click here to sign up for one or more Saturdays in January, to help us clean up debris and ash from a home in Bastrop. 2. Chainsaw Clean-up: ADRN is establishing a team to do tree cutting and general brush removal  tasks, starting sometime in mid-late January. We will need volunteers that can operate chainsaws as well as general laborers who can assist the chainsaw operators in removing and transporting  small trees and limbs. To volunteer, please email ADRN Bastrop/Spicewood Project Coordinator,  John Banks at banksjg01@yahoo.com. 3. Home Construction: If you have some building skills or are interested in learning construction  skills, you are perfect for this task!  ADRN is joining with the Bastrop/Spicewood Long-Term  Commities tasks force of professional builders who are commited to help supervise/teach basic  construction skills so general volunteers will have an opportunity to serve in Bastrop and learn valuable new skills. Every home will be built from the ground up so so every phase of construction  is needed (and can be taught). Help us build a resource base by contacting ADRN soon to inventory  what skills we have to offer those in need. Most likely, home construction will begin sometime in  February.  To volunteer, please email ADRN Bastrop/Spicewood Project Coordinator, John Banks at banksjg01@yahoo.com.