Designated Offering
Volunteer Interfaith Caregivers and Community Outreach
Each month, we designate a particular social service organization for financial support through special collections on Sundays. This October, our special offering goes to two organizations, Volunteer Interfaith Caregivers and Community Outreach, Inc.
Volunteer Interfaith Caregivers
Volunteer Interfaith Caregivers (VIC) helps elderly and younger disabled residents of Corvallis and Benton County, allowing them to remain living independently in their homes as long as possible.Volunteers assist with transportation, indoor and outdoor chores, shopping, building wheelchair ramps and providing much-needed respite for family caregivers.Friendly visiting by volunteers helps
home-bound people stay in touch with the world around them.Our dedicated volunteers have helped many hundreds of elderly and disabled, some for more than ten years!
Community Outreach, Inc
Community Outreach, Inc, (COI) uses a client-centered approach and cooperates with other agencies to provide a continuum of care.Thus, COI provides walk-in medical and dental clinics twice a week as well as providing mental health and substance abuse counseling. Housing for men, women and families continues to be available on-site and Mari’s
Place supports families in need of childcare.A veterans’ program, /Good2Go,/ aims to help each veteran gain employment, coping skills, income, and permanent housing.COI “helps 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!