Designated Offering
Community Outreach, Inc
Each month, we designate a particular social service organization for financial support through special collections on Sundays. This December, our special offering goes to Community Outreach, Inc.
Community Outreach, Inc, (COI) has served basic human needs in the Mid-Willamette Valley since 1971. And they continue to serve, with some changes, during this time of anxiety and stress for so many.
COI has a can-do attitude, and a wide range of programs to support it. It is in the business of inclusion, not exclusion: “service to,” not “screening out.” They want people to find solutions and obtain services.
Thus, COI continues to provide walk-in medical clinics twice a week as well as providing mental health and substance abuse counseling via telehealth technology. Housing continues to be available, but with reduced capacity due to requirements for physical distancing. Mari’s Place Childcare has been approved to operate as emergency childcare, with priority given to frontline workers and those in the essential workforce. Importantly, by using an intercom, COI has been able to continue to provide food boxes, mail and message pick-ups even though their building doors are closed.
COI believes that everybody deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their personal circumstances, and offered the skills, knowledge and assistance they need to help themselves lead healthy and productive lives.
A donation this month will help Community Outreach continue their mission: “Helping people help themselves.”
Make a designated offering
Please give prayerful consideration to this month’s designated offering. To participate, make out a check to Church of the Good Samaritan, write “designated offering” on the memo line, and place it in the plate during the Sunday services offertory (or mail it to our office). You can also use the “designated offering” envelope found in the back of each pew.
At the end of each month, we write a single check from Good Sam to the organization we’ve designated for our support. Thank you for helping to ensure that this valuable service can continue!