Designated Offering
Meals on Wheels and Stone Soup Corvallis
Each month, we designate a particular social service organization for financial support through special collections on Sundays. This May, our special offering goes to Meals on Wheels and Stone Soup.
For nearly 40 years, Meals on Wheels has provided hot meals delivered by volunteers to homebound seniors and younger disabled people, as well as to the Corvallis Senior Center, where those who are able to travel can enjoy the company of others as they eat lunch together. More than the meal, the organization offers its clients the assurance that someone will be there to greet them with a smile and check on them each day.
Meanwhile, Stone Soup Corvallis provides one full meal per day at one of four meal sites in Corvallis: St. Mary’s Catholic Church, First Christian Church, First Congregational United Church of Christ, and Hygiene Center. It is a volunteer organization, and volunteer help is always needed!
Your generous gifts will help ensure that these services can continue to care for our neighbors.
How to help
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!
Be a volunteer
Meals on Wheels is always looking for volunteers, whether you’re interested in packaging meals for home delivery, delivering meals or spending time at Senior Meals with our most vulnerable population. Visit their website to learn more.