Marshalltown First Friends Church

Missions  - Helen Settle, Coordinator

First Friends Church of Marshalltown -- a faithful church with a heart for missions.

LOCAL MISSION PROJECTS

  • Emergency Food Box      
  • Camp Quaker Heights  , Elorda, Iowa    
  • Habitat for Humanity      
  • Mesquakie Friends Center      
  • Youth mission trips
  • Mesquakie Friends Center, Tama, Iowa

Quaker Missions in Iowa:

FRIENDS UNITED MEETING MISSIONS

  • Lugulu Hospital, Africa
  • Cuba      
  • Belize Boys School     
  • Turkana-Samburu      
  • Jamaica      
  • Ramallah      
  • Associated Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs

OTHER Missions:

The Mary Anna Circle-United Soceity of Friends Women

USFW is a gathering of women who have a heart for missions. They meet the 1st Thursday of each month at 1:30 p.m. They support the many mission activities of Friends United Meeting based in Richmond, Indiana, as well as particpate in a number of other projects. All women are invited to this gathering.



The House of Compassion Supply Closet Team

is beginning to plan for the 2008 Back to School Program. Last year assistance was given to 750 students in Marshall County. Let’s jump on board and make it possible to help even more this year. Simply clip the shopping list below and take it to the store with you. You may deliver your school supplies to the shopping car in our church Narthex anytime between now and August 10th. We will collect all the supplies and cash donations and deliver them to the collection center the week of August 12th.

House of Compassion Back to School Shopping List

Items needed by August 10

Large Boxes of Facial Tissue

Glossy Pocket Folders

Wide Line loose-leaf Notebook Paper

3-Ring Notebook

Pencils

Gallon size Ziploc bags

Colored Pencils

Wide Line Washable Markers

Scissors

Plastic School Boxes

Cash donations to help someone else do the shopping are also accepted.

Make checks payable to The House of Compassion—memo: school supply



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