Monthly Focus
December
December Outreach: Supporting The Road Home--Connie Crosby Family Resource Center
This December, our Outreach program is partnering with The Road Home: Connie Crosby Family Resource Center to support families in need. Contributions will include both monetary donations and essential items for the Share the Warmth Tree.
Decorate the Share the Warmth Tree with Your Generosity
This December, we invite you to help transform the Share the Warmth Tree into a vibrant display of compassion and care. Your donations of essential items will not only support local families in need but will also serve as beautiful decorations for the tree, symbolizing the warmth of the season.
Urgent Needs
We are especially seeking the following items:
•NEW Men’s and Women’s Underwear
•Towels
•Ethnic Hair and Skin Products
•Laundry Detergent (Pods or Liquid Preferred)
•Deodorant
Clothing Donations
We are accepting casual clothing for men, women, and children that is:
•New or gently used
•Freshly laundered
•Free of rips, holes, stains, or missing/broken parts
•Seasonally appropriate due to limited storage space
Suggested clothing items include:
•Shirts and Pajamas
•Shower Shoes and Walking Shoes
•Pants
•Socks (Black preferred for men)
•Coats and Winter Boots
•Hats, Gloves, and Scarves
December Outreach: Supporting The Road Home--Connie Crosby Family Resource Center
This December, our Outreach program is partnering with The Road Home: Connie Crosby Family Resource Center to support families in need. Contributions will include both monetary donations and essential items for the Share the Warmth Tree.
Decorate the Share the Warmth Tree with Your Generosity
This December, we invite you to help transform the Share the Warmth Tree into a vibrant display of compassion and care. Your donations of essential items will not only support local families in need but will also serve as beautiful decorations for the tree, symbolizing the warmth of the season.
Urgent Needs
We are especially seeking the following items:
•NEW Men’s and Women’s Underwear
•Towels
•Ethnic Hair and Skin Products
•Laundry Detergent (Pods or Liquid Preferred)
•Deodorant
Clothing Donations
We are accepting casual clothing for men, women, and children that is:
•New or gently used
•Freshly laundered
•Free of rips, holes, stains, or missing/broken parts
•Seasonally appropriate due to limited storage space
Suggested clothing items include:
•Shirts and Pajamas
•Shower Shoes and Walking Shoes
•Pants
•Socks (Black preferred for men)
•Coats and Winter Boots
•Hats, Gloves, and Scarves
Sandwich Making: All Saints Episcopal Church makes sandwiches for St. Vincent de Paul Dining Hall on the third Sunday of every month. Sandwiches are made upstairs immediately following our service. Please plan on joining us in this very worthwhile endeavor and for a wonderful time of fellowship. Won't you join us for this gathering and opportunity to serve others?
Thank you so much for participating in this ministry; it is an important part of All Saints'/FCC outreach!
Sandwich Making: All Saints Episcopal Church makes sandwiches for St. Vincent de Paul Dining Hall on the third Sunday of every month. Sandwiches are made upstairs immediately following our service. Please plan on joining us in this very worthwhile endeavor and for a wonderful time of fellowship. Won't you join us for this gathering and opportunity to serve others?
Thank you so much for participating in this ministry; it is an important part of All Saints'/FCC outreach!
Check it out:
Local faith leaders gathered at the Utah State Capitol on January 18th in honor of Hunger and Homelessness Day at the legislature.They spoke in support of proposals that might further the goals of reducing homelessness. Our own pastor, Rev. Doug Gray, participated in the event.
Check out the article written by Hanna Seariac for the Deseret News using this link:
https://www.deseret.com/2024/1/18/24042574/utah-homelessness-intiatives-faith-leaders
Local faith leaders gathered at the Utah State Capitol on January 18th in honor of Hunger and Homelessness Day at the legislature.They spoke in support of proposals that might further the goals of reducing homelessness. Our own pastor, Rev. Doug Gray, participated in the event.
Check out the article written by Hanna Seariac for the Deseret News using this link:
https://www.deseret.com/2024/1/18/24042574/utah-homelessness-intiatives-faith-leaders
Gloria Lee (on the left), from the Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Doug Gray (on the right),
from the First Congregational Church of Salt Lake City
photo credit: Scott G. Winterton, Deseret News
from the First Congregational Church of Salt Lake City
photo credit: Scott G. Winterton, Deseret News
Faith, Hunger and Homelessness Day
Rev. Gray’s Remarks
Good morning! I am the Rev. Doug Gray, from the First Congregational Church of Salt Lake City. We were founded in 1865, the first faith community in Utah outside of the LDS church, and from the beginning we recognized the importance of radical hospitality. We shared our building with more than 70 of the longest-serving faith communities and service groups of Salt Lake City—including the Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the Jewish faith community—as they were beginning or growing their lives and service. In our tradition, we remember that as Jesus was starting his ministry, he went to synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth and was given the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. From it Jesus read, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (Luke 4:18–19 NIV)
We are here today as faith communities to proclaim this is the year of the Lord’s favor, when we will be mindful of the oppressed, concerned for the hungry, and dedicated to sheltering the housing insecure. We are people of prayer. We pray that our legislators and all Utahns would have hearts filled with compassion, and treat each human being with the dignity they deserve for being created in the image of God. But we also believe prayer and actions must go together—strong faith must find expression in caring for those in most need. The question is not whether there is need, but whether we have the political will to truly make a difference. Today, we call on the legislators and faith communities to turn their compassion into the will to make a difference with hunger and homelessness. With God’s help and our hard work, let us open the deep wells of grace and providence, and make this year the year of the Lord’s favor.
Rev. Gray’s Remarks
Good morning! I am the Rev. Doug Gray, from the First Congregational Church of Salt Lake City. We were founded in 1865, the first faith community in Utah outside of the LDS church, and from the beginning we recognized the importance of radical hospitality. We shared our building with more than 70 of the longest-serving faith communities and service groups of Salt Lake City—including the Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the Jewish faith community—as they were beginning or growing their lives and service. In our tradition, we remember that as Jesus was starting his ministry, he went to synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth and was given the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. From it Jesus read, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (Luke 4:18–19 NIV)
We are here today as faith communities to proclaim this is the year of the Lord’s favor, when we will be mindful of the oppressed, concerned for the hungry, and dedicated to sheltering the housing insecure. We are people of prayer. We pray that our legislators and all Utahns would have hearts filled with compassion, and treat each human being with the dignity they deserve for being created in the image of God. But we also believe prayer and actions must go together—strong faith must find expression in caring for those in most need. The question is not whether there is need, but whether we have the political will to truly make a difference. Today, we call on the legislators and faith communities to turn their compassion into the will to make a difference with hunger and homelessness. With God’s help and our hard work, let us open the deep wells of grace and providence, and make this year the year of the Lord’s favor.