Childcare for children under 6 is available for all worship services.
Outreach
Outreach - Right Now!
EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI RELIEF EFFORTS
UMCOR (the United Methodist Committee on Relief) is on the ground in Haiti coordinating relief efforts. Click here
for information on how you can help. Mount Olivet is forwarding the
contributions we receive to UMCOR. Make your check to Mount Olivet UMC
and write "Haiti" in the memo line.
Our first shipment of health kits for Haiti has gone out. If you missed making one and would like to help, you can bring them in for our June collection that goes to Annual Conference. UMCOR estimates that hundreds of thousands of kits will be needed in the months and years to come. For a list of items for health kits, click here.
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE = COMMUNION OFFERING
On the third Saturday of each month at 4:30 pm, over 100 laity and staff from Mount Olivet welcome and assist people in our immediate community with basic needs including food and transportation and a home cooked dinner. Mostly, however, we distribute hospitality and caring, each person getting some kind of help, all in the name of Jesus. Each month, more than 200 households are represented by the people who come for assistance. The need is great, and so we “give until it’s gone.”
Support for this ministry comes through our Communion Offering on the first Sunday of each month.
Our praise band, JC Reigns, has released a new CD entitled "What If?" Use the media player below to listen to a track. Like what you hear? CDs are $10, and all proceeds go to our Youth Missions Fund that supports our summer mission trips with middle school and high school youth. We have four trips planned in 2010: Habitat for Humanity International in El Salvador, Project SPY in Christiansburg, VA, English Camp in the Czech Republic, and the Jeremiah Project in Winchester, VA. To order a CD, call our church office at 703.527.3934 or email Kevin.
HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF
It has been years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. Across Mississippi, families still live in FEMA trailers. In New Orleans, much of the population still has not returned, causing a labor shortage that is depressing efforts to rebuild.
We are committed to continue to serve our neighbors in need. Interested in being a part of a future team? Contact Cindy Huber.
Come join other members of Mount Olivet as we provide bagged meals for the homeless through the Arlington Street People's Area Network. We need 6-8 volunteers for preparation.
Our scheduled delivery day is the fourth Tuesday of the month. We generally make the meals the night before in the church kitchen.
We are booking groups to make sandwiches now. Check the schedule below. If you'd like to book a date, contact Pauline Meehan at 703.522.3582.
To see what's involved in making the meals, click here.
Blood Drive
GIVE SOMEONE A SECOND CHANCE......GIVE BLOOD AT
MOUNT OLIVET'S BLOOD DRIVE
Together we can save lives!
Mount Olivet’s next blood drive will be Monday, April 19, 2010 from 2:30-8:30 pm here at Mount Olivet UMC. Look for the signup table in the Gathering Space a few weeks before the drive, or call the church office at 703.527.3934 to set up an appointment.
Top ten reasons to give blood
10. You’ll get free juice and homemade cookies.
9. You’ll weigh less—one pint less when you leave than when you came in.
8. It’s easy and convenient. It only takes about an hour and you can make the donation close to your home.
7. It’s something you can spare—most people have blood to spare... yet there’s still not enough to go around.
6. Nobody can ask you to do any heavy lifting as long as you have the bandage on. You can wear it for as long as you like. It’s your badge of honor.
5. You will walk a little taller afterwards—you’ll feel good about yourself.
4. You’ll be helping to ensure that blood is there when you or someone close to you may need it. (Right now, a member of the Mount Olivet congregation requires regular blood transfusions to live.)
3. It’s something you can do on equal footing with the rich and famous—blood is something money can’t buy. And, there’s no other substitute for it.
2. You’ll be someone’s hero—you may give a newborn, a child, a mother or a father, a brother, or a sister another chance at life. In fact, you may help save up to three lives with just one donation.
And, the No. 1 reason to give blood… By the time you finish reading this list, at least three people will need blood.
The time is now. Be a blood donor.
Community Ministries
Mount Olivet financially supports these organizations. If you'd like to learn more about a particular organization, click on the link. You will be leaving Mount Olivet's website.
All United Methodist apportionments
Arlington-Alexandria Coalition for the Homeless (Sullivan House) www.aachhomeless.org
Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) www.afac.org
More than 854 million people go to bed hungry every night. They are people just like you. But because of problems like poverty, war, and natural disasters, they face severe food shortages.
The motto of CROP Hunger Walks is: “We walk because they walk.” That’s because the majority of the world’s poor and hungry must walk to accomplish the most basic tasks.
They walk for food.
They walk for water.
They walk for firewood.
They walk to escape violence.
They walk to seek shelter.
They walk to farm their fields.
They walk to find employment.
They walk to go to school.
Every day, millions of people walk just to survive. So when you walk in a CROP Hunger Walk, you walk with the world.
February is Food Kit Month
February is Food Kit
Month
This year we're distributing EFK boxes on February 28 and March 7. We're collecting filled boxes on March 7 and 14.
ESL Ministries began in 1990 at Mount Olivet with a few students and a handful of dedicated volunteers. Today the program, which teaches the English language to immigrants, encompasses 17 churches in the Arlington District with 100 volunteers assisting 500 students. Additionally, the Arlington District provides pastoral care to Spanish-speaking persons in local area hospitals and prisons. For more information, click on http://www.eslim.org
Mount Olivet is committed to sending regular mission teams to the Gulf region. To date we have sent twelve teams and we anticipate new teams will be forming soon. For more information, please contact the church office.
The English Camp is a partnership of the United Methodist Church in the Czech Republic and Mount Olivet United Methodist Church. Teaching English with the Czech people is an effective form of evangelism that we highly recommend as a way of reaching the people for Christ. Please be in prayer for this ministry.
Would you like to be a part of this ministry and be in mission in the Czech Republic?
The dates for camp this year are July 25-31! We welcome former teachers as well as others interested in participating. Rising 11th and 12th grades are also invited.
Costs are expected to be approximately $1500 for round trip air fare and $1000 for hotel, food and transportation. Limited scholarship funds are available from the Outreach team budget for those called to participate.
Questions? Interested? Contact Cindy Huber, Team Leader.
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HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF
February is Food Kit
Month
