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Feb 2025: How have your almsgiving donations been shared in our community?
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Outreach Mission Team Goals:
- Applying the parish’s call of radical generosity through action.
- Through our action, we proactively bring Jesus to people in need.
You may recall, this past year seven lives of a parish member’s refugee family fleeing persecution were saved by providing airfare to a country where they could seek temporary asylum. Your generosity has helped to fill gaps with the Back-to-School Fair, our Christmas Giving Tree and providing supplies for the WIT/WIN Academy Pantry. And in the last two months of 2024 alone, seven families received help with rent which prevented eviction and homelessness. Thank you for your continued support of those in our community who need help, especially those with children and those facing homelessness. God bless each of you!
Below is a short summary of how your funds have been used over the past two years.
Beginning Balance - $17,998.60- Rental Assistance - $4,097.45
- Household needs (parishioner) - $49.70
- Children’s items (parishioner and refugee family) $167.37
- Past due bills/auto insurance (parishioner) $423.16
- Gas - $47.00
- Groceries - $150.00
- Advent/Christmas Giving Tree – Tags not taken (2023) - $50.42
- Clothing (parishioner and homeless) $177.14
- Refugee Family fleeing Sri Lanka (Family of Parish Members) - $5,325.89
- WIT/WIN Academy Pantry Program – $1,926.20
- Supplies for Helping Hands bags for homeless at our door - $402.36
- Oshkosh Community Back to School Fair 2023 – $525.00 (2023)
- Oshkosh Community Back to School Fair 2024 - $1,100.00 (2024) (These amounts cover the tags on our Giving Trees that were not taken by parishioners)
- Farmer’s Market Care Packages for Homeless - $181.21 (Cost split with Evangelization Mission Team)
- Other Almsgiving Fund donations received in 2024 - $1,550.00