Outreach

The Committee is composed of the following members: Linda Sexton, Vestry Liaison; Michael Lodico, chair; Elizabeth Stecher, Sue Shirley, Edwina Costley, Vicky Gribble, Maureen Hunt, Les Taylor, Madison Owen,  and Deacon Ray Escott. 

The Outreach Committee uses funds appropriated by the vestry to steward in the community. This year we have assisted in several programs.

• Meals on Wheels
• Pathways Meals reimbursements
• Backpack for Central High Students who take home Manna food.
• Shoes for the homeless students at Tuscola and Waynesville Middle
• Supplies for the Summer Program at the Pigeon Center​
• Open Door Emergency Housing Coalition for Homeless Women and Children
• 30th Judicial Alliance Hispanic Program
• Mountain Projects New building refurbishing
• Senior Center Christmas boxes

We conduct Item Collections and Drives throughout the year.

• May - Pigeon Community Multicultural Center - a drive for items needed for the summer children’s program
• August -  collected school items for homeless school children and the Alternative School children
• October - collected new underwear for the Clothes to Kids Organization
• Spring & Fall – conducted the United Thank Offering gathering monies used for mission nationally and internationally
• December- sponsored the Angel Tree that provides Christmas presents for children and youth in need; sponsored the Warming Tree that provides warm clothing items for our food pantry clients; conducted the Christmas Cards for Veterans projects

Other Outreach Projects include providing hot lunches for the Alternative School on the second Tuesday of every month and cooking and serving ​meals at Haywood Pathways on the second Sunday of each month and fifth Mondays.
Our largest and most profitable project is the The Annual Parish Fair which raised $17,175.00 this year. Local non-profits were invited to submit grants and the following groups received funding based on those grant proposals.

• Big Brothers/Big Sisters
• Clothes to Kids
• Community Kitchen 
• Fines Creek Community Association
• Good Samaritan Clinic 
• Haywood Christian Ministries
• Haywood Pathways Center
• KARE 
• Mountain Mediation Center
• Mountain Projects - Self Sufficiency Fund
• Mountain Projects - Senior Resource Center