Outreach

Hunter Presbyterian Church will visit Lexington Friends Meeting Quakers and will host St. Paul Catholic Church.
The Downtown Christian Unity Task Force (DCUTF) is an association of churches which seeks to serve the downtown area of Lexington and enhance existing ministries of member churches by providing opportunities for members to share in education, fellowship, worship, service and assistance with unmet needs in the downtown area.
For the past eighteen years, the DCUTF has sponsored a worship exchange in which each church sends some of its members to visit another church for the main worship service and on the same Sunday receives worshippers from another DCUTF congregation. This fall Hunter will visit the Lexington Friends Meeting and will host St. Paul Catholic Church.
A luncheon and the annual meeting of DCUTF will be held at Good Shepherd Episcopal at 1:30. It is optional for those involved in the exchange, but all are welcome.
Ann Freytag and Kriis Zeps will welcome our guests. Anyone wishing to be part of the group visiting the Quaker meeting can sign up on the bulletin board outside the Kitchen or in the hall outside the Flower Guild. Those signing up will be contacted before October 31 with information about the visit and about car pooling.

Pentecost is May 23rd. On that day a special offering provides a way to contribute toward Presbyterian programs to meet the needs of children at risk, youth, and young adults. There will be inserts in the bulletin to give more details about some of these programs.
The Pentecost Offering supports a new generation of leadership for the church through the Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) program. YAVs spend a year in service either here or abroad.  They raise funds for their own support during that year, but the Pentecost Offering funds training programs and pays travel expenses for their year of mission involvement. These Young Adult Volunteers serve in communities of need and explore their call to the work of Jesus Christ. Many go on to become pastors or mission workers.
The offering also supports General Assembly ministries with youth through Presbyterian youth workers. It also funds advocacy on issues of child poverty and health and education.  Forty percent of the Pentecost Offering can be designated by Hunter to local programs for children at risk.  Past offerings have been shared with Bellewood and with Kids Café. Last year, the flooding in Jackson and Breathitt Counties created urgent need. Hunter’s Pentecost Offering was used by the Interfaith Alliance in Jackson to provide things needed by the children whose lives were disrupted by the flooding.

On July 20th, Lexington Project C.U.R.E sent off more medical supplies than ever before. The 26-foot truck that came from Nashville went home without room for another box. Donated supplies that had accumulated in Hunter’s basement storeroom reached the Project C.U.R.E. warehouse and were sorted and prepared for shipment to hospitals and clinics in countries were they are badly needed.
July 20th is on record as the hottest day Lexington Project C.U.R.E. has ever loaded a truck. Fortunately, the fire brigade method of passing boxes up from the storeroom helped avoid heat exhaustion.
The record for driving the furthest to help load was set by Sallie and Lawrence Monroe from Hull Presbyterian near Hazard. They got up very early and brought us a truck full of medical supplies and stayed to do a lot of lifting until we finished.
A record number of volunteers came to help: Thanks to Jean Covert, Carolyn Holmes, Jim Scott, Anne Chesnut, Nora Chesnut, Jacob Abbott, Joyce Abbott, Randy Daniel, Frankie Daniel, Ben Durant, James Bush, Kelly Telech, Tery Ackerman, Linda Crawford, Phyllis & Charles Hanna, Carol Hulse, Betty Wright, Lawrence & Sally Monroe, Skip Kifer, and Ann Freytag for a record setting loading day. Special thanks to Carolyn Holmes who provided snacks to keep loaders loading.
Thanks to all who kept the donations flowing all year, especially Mary Nuckols, Carolyn Barbera, Susan Byars, Stan & Lois Clark, Jackie Graves, and Andrea Stendel.
And, of course, a big THANKS to Cecil Woolums, the Master Packer, without whom, Project C.U.R.E. couldn’t function.
So, it’s time to begin collecting for the next load. When you have empty medium sized boxes (12’’ x 16” x 10” or slightly larger) drop them off outside the storeroom door.

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