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This week: An article on 1Day4Him assistance to four local ministries, a look at the donations for the OLL Hurricane Relief Truck and the results of last week's survey.

1Day4Him

articles and photos from Tristen and Jessica Hogue.

"Oak City Outreach: A group of parishioners volunteered at Oak City Outreach by setting up tables for people to pick up various hygiene items and basic necessities. This included socks, hair products, washcloths, toothbrushes and grab bags full of various items. Our parishioners also joined in in praying for some folks that were there, and people could take a wooden cross with them along with their goods.

A Place at the Table: (below) Parishioners volunteered their time at this unique restaurant. The helped serve food, bus tables, do dishes, cut up fruit, and helped with plating. A Place at the Table provides community and healthy food for all regardless of means. Anyone can come in for a meal and if they cannot pay the suggested price for their meal, they can volunteer to help out. You can also go in and pay it forward for someone else to enjoy a meal!

Catholic Parish Outreach: Catholic Parish Outreach provides emergency food assistance and children’s clothes and baby items to people who need it. OLL parishioners met at the Catholic Parish Outreach warehouse to help wherever they were needed. We helped bag rice, fill bags of food for people to take, and trim hundreds of heads of lettuce! They’re contributions will help this organization feed some of the 8,700 people that receive assistance from Catholic Parish Outreach every month!

Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina: With Hurricane Florence approaching the coast of North Carolina, a large group of OLL parishioners came together to make emergency kits that would be going out to families that were impacted. These kits included, water, veggies, fruits, grains, and proteins. One group was sorting the goods by type of food, and the other group was placing these into the kits. These kids and adults were working hard and filled tons of boxes to be sent all across North Carolina." by Tristan and Jessica Hogue

The OLL Hurricane Relief Truck

donations for the victims of Hurricane Florence was one of our ways of helping. Many of us remember vividly when Hurricane Fran devastated Raleigh and some of our homes. We were really hurting for quite a while. At least we could help out a little on this one. (Thanks for photos of the donations, Maria House.)

Our attention may have wandered on but thousands are still hurting and will be for quite some time. They still need our prayers!

The results are in.

"Yes, I'd like two emails per week" (1 announcements & 1 news) -- 34 votes
"No, I'd like to stay with one email per week" --15 votes
"Either choice is OK with me" -- 32 votes

So, I'm going to try two per week and see how it goes. Please give me your comments/feedback after you've seen it for a couple of weeks.

Pope Francis

reminds us, “we are not in this world by our own choice.” Each one of us, he says, is called to reflect on the fact that “I am a mission on this Earth,” which is why we are here in this world. In fact, the Pope says, ’every man and woman is a mission.” “To be attracted and to be sent are two movements” of the heart that “hold out promise for our future and give direction to our lives.”