"where mercy triumphs over
judgment"
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MISSION NEWS Rail Offerings Communion
Rail Offerings for the third quarter of 2010 have been designated by
the Missions Committee for the Child Crisis Center being readied by La
Pinon Sexual Assault Recovery Services of Southern New Mexico. The
Center will serve infants and children who need crisis care due to
family emergencies or abusive situations. The center will be located in
an existing building on the Mesilla Valley Community of Hope campus.
Donations will be used to fix electrical and plumbing systems, provide new appliances, install appropriate flooring, etc. The organization hopes to have the center operational by the end of the year. For further information, please contact Donna Richmond at 526-3437. Your
second quarter communion rail offerings totaled nearly $500.
for UMCOR Chille Earthquake Feb. 27, 2010 Chile hurricane relief. As always, 100% of contributions through the United Methodist Committee on Relief go directly to the designated recipient. Thanks for supporting this cause. (Some History of our Rail Offerings From Judy Burnham A long time ago the Missions Committee decided to give the congregation an opportunity to
support a variety of organizations and projects by designating a
recipient for each quarter. Therefore, the recipient organization
receives the donations given during the three months of that quarter.
~Each year, we try to balance the recipients between local charities or groups and national or international causes. We vary recipients from year to year, although we often repeat over a period of years. We also try to support the Sunday School project of the year and special things like hurricane or flood relief. We find that this already generous congregation is ever-willing to support causes and this is a great way to help them learn and feel a part of a wide variety of worthy causes. We are open to suggestions from congregation members, although we do not necessarily support every project that is suggested! ) Window Rock, AZ UMC
The Window Rock mission team has 13 volunteers! We will depart from the church after the 8:30 service on July 18th. For those of you who are not going on the trip, please pray for the success of the mission and for the Navajo people in the Window Rock area. If you‟d like to make a financial contribution, please make checks payable to the Morning Star Missions Committee and indicate mission trip donation on the memo line. Thanks for your support! Are you interested in the Mission trip to Window Rock from July 18th to 23rd? We will be doing a variety of projects that will require skilled and unskilled workers. Contact Judy or Leah or the church office to learn more. Window Rock, AZ UMC ~ COMMUNITY
OUTREACH
If you know of someone in the community that needs assistance with minor home repairs, handicap access, or other projects that require help, or if you’d like to work on the next “Helping Hands” project, please speak to any member of the United Methodist Men or call the church office for more information. ~
 Albertson’s Community Partner’s Cards Community Partners
program has been discontinued. Albertsons is refocusing its efforts to
help tackle some of the biggest issues facing our communities, namely
hunger, health and nutrition.  LightHouse Food & Clothing Pantry ~
UPDATE
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THANK YOU all
for all of your help in so many ways to keep our LightHouse running and
helping so many people in need in our community. This makes such a big
difference.
FOOD AND CLOTHING PANTRYWe
have been well attended so far this year with many new clients
requiring our services. The need in our community is definitely there
for our pantry and clothing closet.
Our new space is ready for us. So please bring in any clothing and shoes that you would like to donate to help people in need. We have a bin in the storage space in the fellowship area (formerly the nursery). You can bring items in at any time the church is open. Just throw them in the bin. Thanks a lot. At this time we are in need of peanut butter, jelly and ramen noodles, laundry detergent and personal hygiene items. Lighthouse is open the first and third Tuesday of each month from 9:00-11:00 am. Come check us out any time. See our new space. Next LightHouse dates are July 6 and 20, 2010. Please stop by and see our “Pantry” in operation. Contact Gary & Nancy (522-5256) about volunteer opportunities or questions about LightHouse. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all… Galatians 6:10
Significantly,
the pantry WAS
housed in a room behind the altar in our worship space.
1 John 3:18 ~ Thaxton Grant Did you know that we have received a Thaxton Grant that will allow us to partner with Booker T. Washington School? We will be purchasing books throughout the coming school year. Our goal is to provide three or four grade appropriate books for every child in the school. These gifts will enable the students to have their own books to keep at home. P.A.W.S. Positive Actions for Wildcats Safety View NEWS RELEASE: Have you ever seen the Camino Real Middle School students roaming across Morning Star grounds at school dismissal time?
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-- Society
of Saint Andrew - About UsPAWS (Positive Actions for Wildcat Safety) is a community partnership between Morning Star and the Las Cruces Public Schools. As part of Morning Star‟s effort to reach out to the surrounding neighborhood, we‟ve agreed to make the upper parking lot available for after-school pick up. This fall, we will begin our fourth full year of PAWS. Students not only meet waiting parents and travel safely across church property as pedestrians, but they also receive treat sacks and other goodies throughout the year. This has been a wonderful opportunity to develop relationships with our neighbors. School Board Honors Morning Star Church: View NEWS RELEASE: Morning Star‟s insurer has requested that we over-see this ministry. Once a week, church volunteers spend from 3:30 to 4 pm monitoring the lot to ensure PAWS runs smoothly. Please consider serving as a volunteer to help continue this great neighborhood ministry. Speak with Krista Michael or JC Ortega for more information. ~
MOMS SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Once again this year, the MOMS Circle (Mothers of Morning Star) is helping to coordinate the distributions of school supplies to children coming to the Light-House food and clothing pantry. This year, the Youth have graciously agreed to help with this endeavor. We have 60+ backpacks ready to be filled with basic school supplies to provide to eager students. We plan to give backpacks on Tuesday, July 20th and Tuesday, August 3rd from 9:00 to 11:00 am. Please keep this ministry in your prayers as we help these children prepare for a new school year. We‟re ac-cepting donations in the container marked “school supplies” in classroom 106, (please write “school sup-plies” on the memo line of any check donations). Some needed items: #2 pencils, colored pencils, crayons, markers, notebook paper, spiral notebooks, and glue. Complete supply lists are available in room 106. Please speak to Krista Michael, J C Ortega or call the office if you have any questions. Thanks. (MOTHERS OF MORNING STAR) Beginning in 2005, a group of interested women here at Morning Star organized a Mothers of Morning Star (MOMS) small group focusing on the mission goals of providing support for the public schools and promot-ing literacy through a bilingual story time in conjunc-tion with the LightHouse food and clothing pantry. We read children‟s picture books in Spanish and Eng-lish from 8:30 to 9:30 am on the first and third Tues-day mornings of each month during LightHouse hours. The MOMS Circle support of public school children includes annual distribution of back-to-school supplies and support of Children‟s Sabbath, or similar campaign for children‟s welfare, through the distribu-tion of hygiene items. Please prayerfully consider joining us in this ministry to the young children of our community. Speak with Krista Michael or Lynda Smith for more information. ~
Morning Star works with the Society of Saint Andrew on Hunger Relief in two different ways. First, we participate in summer gleanings, chiefly through the New Mexico State University onion research fields. Second, we participate in a coin box and devotional program during Lent every Spring. We have also been the church home of SoSA's local Hunger Relief Advocate for the past several years. Currently, that position is transitioning to another person, and quite possibly the new HRA will also be a member of Morning Star.
Society of Saint Andrew Missions, Outreach, Service... these words have always been a key part of the way Morning Star has been living out its call as a church of Jesus Christ.
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