Each year we mail shoe boxes to the active duty military and college students that are apart of our church family. These shoe boxes are filled with items that they may not have available to them or necessities like school supplies, stamps or quarters for laundry or even just little things that you find that you think would be nice to receive if you were away from home and on a shoestring budget. The gathering and mailing of these shoe boxes has proven to be the challenging part over the years. Please call the church office with the addresses for these young people so that we have up to date and accurate information. We certainly do not want the boxes not to be received. The following are the dates to pay attention to:
-- Military shoe boxes are TBD.
-- The college shoe boxes will be available on
or
about late January and will be due back on or about late February.
This is a fun ministry that our college students and military alike have come to look forward to. If you have any questions please contact Laura Morrison or the church office.
P.S. Please send the address of this page or the corresponding newsletter to someone in college or the military to keep them up to date and encourage them to send us their address! :)
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NOTE FROM CAMPUS MINISTRIES
Shoe box Greetings
For many years CAMPUS MINISTRIES was a "line item" on our list of church ministries. Several years ago we decided to kick it up a notch and determined that if Hallmark could have shoe box greetings so could we. Therefore, the shoe box ministry for our college students was born. We mail these boxes out in late February - after they have returned to school after the holidays with their families to give them a little lift and encouragement.
A shoe box with each and every one of these college students names on it was made available for adoption last week. It is our fervent prayer that if you adopt a shoe box that you will have fun putting thought and care into filling it - you may have selected a student that you know very well and can make your shoe box very personal or you may have a shoe box for a student that you do not know as well and this is a great opportunity for you to get to know them or their family much better. It is our hope that if we maintain contact with our youth that they will remember that and return to our church when they are home as well as after college when they are starting families of their own. Salem United Methodist Church is a family, please take this opportunity to reach out to our college students and have some fun in the process. There is something exciting and uplifting about getting mail (that is not a bill) that just lets you know that someone has you in their thoughts and prayers.
It is very important that all boxes be here at that time since anyone who took the time to include baked goods would like them to arrive fresh.
Shoe box Greetings
For many years CAMPUS MINISTRIES was a "line item" on our list of church ministries. Several years ago we decided to kick it up a notch and determined that if Hallmark could have shoe box greetings so could we. Therefore, the shoe box ministry for our college students was born. We mail these boxes out in late February - after they have returned to school after the holidays with their families to give them a little lift and encouragement.
A shoe box with each and every one of these college students names on it was made available for adoption last week. It is our fervent prayer that if you adopt a shoe box that you will have fun putting thought and care into filling it - you may have selected a student that you know very well and can make your shoe box very personal or you may have a shoe box for a student that you do not know as well and this is a great opportunity for you to get to know them or their family much better. It is our hope that if we maintain contact with our youth that they will remember that and return to our church when they are home as well as after college when they are starting families of their own. Salem United Methodist Church is a family, please take this opportunity to reach out to our college students and have some fun in the process. There is something exciting and uplifting about getting mail (that is not a bill) that just lets you know that someone has you in their thoughts and prayers.
It is very important that all boxes be here at that time since anyone who took the time to include baked goods would like them to arrive fresh.
Thank you for the time, effort and love
that you show our college
students & military!
Laura Morrison - Chairperson of Campus Ministries
Laura Morrison - Chairperson of Campus Ministries
