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Thank You to Community Meal Helpers Thank you to all the Emmaus members who pitched in to make casseroles, salads, and desserts for the February 4 Community Meal at St. Patrick’s.Our next turn to serve the Community Meal will be on April 1. Look for a sign-up sheet in the narthex. Recipes for the casseroles are near the sign-up sheet, and below. 9"x13" pans are available in the kitchen off the Sunset Room. Please tape your name to the pans (whether they are yours or were borrowed from the church) so they can be returned. Casserole ingredients:
Brown the beef, onion, salt and pepper and put them in the bottom of a 9"x13" pan. Sprinkle the green beans over the beef. Pour both cans of soup over the beans. Spread the tater tots over the top of the casserole.
Green Teams Tout Meatless Mondays
by John Berge
Did you know that "carnival" is derived from the Latin “carne vale” and means farewell to meat? At the most recent meeting of the Green Team Congregations, a program called Meatless Mondays was discussed. This is a program started in association with the Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health that does exactly as its name suggests -- urges people to go meatless on Mondays.
In place of beef, chicken, fish or pork, substitute protein from beans, other legumes, eggs, nuts and seeds. Why? Going meatless once a week can reduce your carbon footprint, save money and precious resources such as fresh water and fossil fuel (especially with corn-fed beef), and may reduce your risk of chronic, preventable conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity through better nutrition and lower saturated fats.
By reducing our meat consumption by one seventh, we each save up to 900 gallons of water per week to produce that meat. We reduce our personal calorie intake by 450 calories and the energy to produce 8 ounces of beef rather than soy by 23,668 calories.
Need more information or meatless recipes? Go to www.meatlessmonday.com. So why not say "Carne vale" to meat on Mondays starting in Lent and continuing on throughout the year?
Recycle Tech Products at Church We now recycle used computer ink cartridges. Look for the container on the table in the narthex. We also recycle batteries, cell phones and CFL light bulbs. Containers for these items are also in the narthex. By the back door is a receptacle for plastic bags which are used by the Northside Food Pantry.
Please save your aluminum cans. Next to the back door is a huge container for cans. The cans are taken to the recycling center on High Street for cash. The cash from recycled cans goes for designated projects at the church. Please, no tin foil. Remove cans from plastic bags and put the cans in the large trash bags in the cans. Thank you. Note: the green container by the back door is for plastic bags which are used by the Northside Food Pantry.
Trinity United Methodist Church, 3825 Erie Street, 1:30 to 4:00 p.m.
Northside Food Pantry Seeks Donations There is an on-going need this year for gifts of food or money to the Northside Food Pantry. Remember the hungry as you fill up the grocery cart in the narthex. Useful items include: Meat & protein (most needed)
Donations can be dropped off in the cart in the narthex. Cash donations should be designated “Food Pantry.”
Lutherans Work to Build Shelters in Anticipation of Haiti’s Rainy Season CHICAGO (ELCA) Feb. 17 -- With the rainy season expected to begin at the end of March, it is critical that the people of Haiti have some shelter to help preserve health, sanitation and dignity, according to a report from a Lutheran World Relief (LWR) assessment team in Haiti. To help “beat the clock,” Lutherans are working quickly to set up shelters for Haitians displaced from their homes since the January 12 earthquake.LWR is a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Providing shelter is also a top priority for the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Department for World Service (DWS) in Haiti. According to Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, DWS program coordinator, the LWF plans to provide shelters for 15,000 families in four rural communities, 35 kilometers west of Port-au-Prince. In the longer term, DWS Haiti will focus on building more permanent housing. More than 31,000 hygiene kits, some 4,500 baby care kits and about 4,000 blankets have been distributed in Haiti since the earthquake, reported CWS, a partner of the ELCA. Action by Churches Together (ACT) and its members like the LWF and CWS have also provided water, sanitation, shelter or food to more than 150,000 people in Haiti. ACT is a global alliance of churches and related agencies working together in disaster response and development. It is based in Geneva with the LWF. The ELCA is a member of the LWF. Since the earthquake, the ELCA has received more than $4.6 million to support humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti. Financial gifts from the ELCA are used to purchase and distribute medicine, drinking water, food, emergency shelter, sanitation and hygiene kits and other materials to aid survivors of the earthquake. Lutherans are also working to provide psychosocial serves and other support.
Financial contributions to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti can be made through the ELCA or by calling 800-638-3522.
Mt. Meru Farmers Say 'Asante Sana' by Diane Melander Asante Sana! These Tanzanian words mean thank you very much. Our friends there are so grateful for the help we give them when we purchase and drink Mt. Meru coffee. The average coffee farm is just one to three acres in size, and the average family income is $400 per year. It's amazing to see how the purchase of just one bag of coffee helps the farmers of Tanzania. Your purchase of just one twelve ounce bag of coffee for $9.00 is used as follows:
This season is a great time to purchase Mt. Meru coffee. Do you need a hostess gift or a Christmas gift? Holiday gift packs are also available. These include a tote bag and a package of coffee. Tote bags and gift packaging was done by Pan-African Community Asso-ciation of Milwaukee. Another great gift that helps the Meru farmers is your purchase of one square meter of land on the Makumira Estate in Tanzania. This farm project is working on developing a disease resistant strain of coffee trees. They work to try to make the coffee farmers small farms more productive.
If you have questions or want to special order coffee, gift packs or land, please stop by the Sunset Room on Sunday or call Diane Melander at 262-681-2796.
from HALO Newsletter Shelters Needs
THP Needs
For questions on the THP needs, please contact Rachel Burmm (633-3235, ext. 105) or Mark Weitkum (633-3235, ext. 109).
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