St. Andrew's Outreach Activities to the Community and to the Wider Community for 2008

Activities: Lenten soup suppers, new member Sunday, church picnic with VBS kickoff , ISU welcome fair, MICA donation blitz, pet blessing day, Christmas service postcards, Christmas remembrances to families of deceased over the past year, bread bags to visitors, compassion meals, follow-up with new members, Kidzdayz, annual talent show, fellowship time after church service, Lutheran World Relief, Crop Walk, S.A.G.G, men's bible study, and woman's circles.

All year-advertising and community awareness of St. Andrew including: CyRide ad, yard signs, window decals, newspaper ads and articles.

Music outreach: GNEA concert.

Facilities: for funerals, Art Class, Ames Coral Society, Good Company, ACA, rummage sale site for the Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and weddings.

Ministries: Puppet, Pine Ridge, Low Income Housing, Tanzania.

Budgeted benevolences: GNEAC, Ames Emergency Residence, MICA, Healthy Food Voucher Program, ACCESS, Heifer Project, Drs. W/O Borders, U. of I. Hospital Lutheran Chaplaincy Program, 20/20 for new congregations in the southeast synod, University Lutheran Roof Fund.