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The St. Nicholas Community Outreach Team Needs Your Help

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From this week’s News from Nick, an important request from the Outreach Team:

As many of you know, the St. Nicholas Community Outreach Team was recently formed, and has been working toward increasing our visibility within the community at large. Our ultimate goal is to increase membership and attendance both from without and within. We are encouraged to continue growing the energy of the congregation, involving all of you in strengthening and improving our wonderful St.Nick’s.

Welcome To St Nicholas

We hope you were as excited about the Welcome Table (our first undertaking) as we were to get it off the ground. Please wear those beautiful badges proudly. It’s a great way to get to know one another better! Even our children were anxious to wear theirs’ last weekend.

Newcomers will be wearing a handwritten badge in RED for a visit or two. Please make them welcome by showing them around, answering any questions they may have, and generally just being your cordial selves. Let them know this is their home too!

Additionally, we are asking you to keep your eyes and ears open to any venues (fairs, conferences, speaking occasions, parade opportunities, etc.) in which St. Nick’s can participate.

Occasionally, we will seek volunteers to post flyers in visible locations, inviting the public to worship with us or informing them of special events. One of the major goals you have verbalized is to increase membership. We will do all we can on our end, but we really need your support and physical help.

Thanks in advance!!!

We look forward to working with all of you.

(Contact the Outreach Team: Bob De Haven, Paul Swanson, Ginny Gibbs, Hal Stratton, and Jan Tossman)

Fannie May Chocolate: Orders Due Nov. 13

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Please return your Fannie May orders no later than Sunday, November 13. Place them in the provided basket on the table in the gathering space, or give them to Pat Kalicki. The orders will be processed and all of the orders you sold will be delivered directly to your home the week of December 5 (you do not need to be home).

Remember: Saint Nicholas receives a percentage of every order sold, and our friends and family get a 10% discount on candy (and no tax)!

Food Pantry Now Open 1st, 3rd, 4th Wedesday Evenings

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The St Nicholas Food Pantry is now open the first, third, and fourth Wednesday of the month from 430pm to 630pm. We’re grateful for the assistance we get with food donations from other area repositories, and also from area food service companies. We’re also thankful for the gift of time and care from our group of volunteers, who sort cans and greet guests.

Demand for food across the Chicago suburbs is on the rise, placing more of a burden on local and regional food providers trying to do more with less.

Many food banks and pantries dependent on donations to stock shelves and buy groceries are barely getting by, while others are expanding to reach more hungry mouths.

via Suburban Chicago food pantries feeling the pinch – chicagotribune.com.