Great Day of Service

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What if you could make a difference in one weekend? You can and it’s easier than you might think.

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Jump in and give back to our community by joining us this year at Great Day of Service on Saturday, May 5, 2012.  We’ll get started at 7:00 a.m. in the Franklin First UMC Fellowship Hall with a light breakfast and communion.  Then we’ll venture out into the community and serve throughout the day. Project descriptions are from 2011, but should be close to what we’ll be doing this year.

Some of you may not be familiar with the Great Day of Service. The first Saturday of May will be the Great Day of Service.  On this day we offer many opportunities for you and your family to be involved in the ongoing mission work of this congregation. This article is to “prepare the way” for you to be involved. Beginning in mid March, you will find a list of all the projects online and can sign up for the project of your choice! Project chairs will be actively seeking volunteers within the next few months. We need at least 600 to 700 volunteers in order to complete all the projects we’ve committed to! That’s always a huge leap of faith, but this congregation has been incredibly faithful every year, and, indeed, we have “gathered to worship and scattered to serve.”

We gather in the Fellowship Hall at 7:30 a.m. for a light breakfast. There are some projects that don’t start until 9 or 10 and some are in the afternoon only. Just check out the sign up sheet for details. If times aren’t mentioned, then they will start right after breakfast and serve until you drop. Just kidding…you don’t have to work all day or even all morning. We are happy to have you work all day or a few hours. It is such a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of folks in our church family and become the hands and feet of our Lord as we humbly serve.

If you know of someone in the community who needs home repairs, a ramp built, a yard mowed or simply a visit on that day, please call me and we will add them to the list. Sarah McGinley 794-1276 or 337-6059 or email at sarahbmcginley@gmail.com.

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This project prepares about 120 meals and delivers them to the elderly in our community.  We will also match many of the Meals on Wheels recipients with families who will do home repairs, yard work or visit with each person who requests assistance.

  • Help with cooking from 9-11 a.m.
  • Help with Delivery from 11-12 p.m.
  • Work day at the homes of people receiving Meals on Wheels

This is our partnership church in northeast Nashville.  We will be doing repairs to the church and landscaping.

  • WAVES—We have a number of projects with these special needs adults:
  • Bingo lunch 11-2 p.m.—Dana Wesson 791-9911or danawesson@comcast.net
  • Cannon Street for yard work—Edd Ingram eingram@att.blackberry.net or 599-4910
  • Skylark for yard work & painting—Randy Mauldin randy.mauldin@trane.com or 790-1277
  • Chestnut Street for painting—Phil Rutledge pcrutledge@bellsouth.net or 967-8015
  • Fairview for landscaping and mowing—Mark Lovan mlovan@polyair.com or 791-7633
  • Construction and Clean-up Projects—Contact: Angela Overstreet at tozonian@charter.net or 614-1205
  • Work at the Graceworks store organizing and stocking
  • Help with the postal food drive and collect household items on May 12

Create a more comfortable and organized “home” for a family in need in our community which will involve cleaning, donating furniture and accessories for the house, decorating and creating a “new” home for a family to get a fresh start in life.

  • Nursing Home/Assisted Living Visitation
  • Belvedere Commons:  10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Karen Feamster at goldenridge@mindspring.com or 791-6588
  • Morningside Assisted Living: 3 p.m. – 5 p.m., Jennifer Jannetty at jenjannetty@bellsouth.net 268-4082
  • Beacon Point: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Naomi Norman at normannao@fssd.org or 791-6220

Making Pillowcase dresses for Uganda, walker bags and alterations and sewing buttons for WAVES.

Working with the special needs clients through an afternoon of dancing and fun at a sock hope for them and their families.

Paint the offices for Project Transformation at Tulip Street UMC in Nashville.

Cedar Crest United Methodist Campground in Lyles, Tn (about 45 minutes from the church).  Clearing the trails and general clean-up to get the camp ready for summer.

  • Prayer Team – Project Captain Needed

This team will set aside time from 8 a.m.—4 p.m. to pray specifically for each person and project at The Great Day of Service.  We will have a space designated at the church to pray or you can pray from home.

Host a baby shower at Franklin First UMC to provide diapers, new clothing and other items for the “store” at Hope Clinic where the mothers who go through Hope Clinic’s spiritual mentoring and educational classes can redeem their points for items for their new baby.

Faith House (offices and counseling center of Community Outreach):  Major cleaning of kitchen and bathrooms, painting, landscaping, cutting wood, general cleanup

  • Strahl Park—11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., Contact:  Katie Burt at kburt@comcast.net or 927-1332

Cookout and games at Strahl Park