Casstown UMC 102 Center Street PO Box 203 Casstown, Ohio 45312 937.339.4828
Casstown United Methodist Church
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Current Activities

 

 

 

Troy First Food Pantry, 2019

 

FOOD PANTRY

          Casstown will be collecting items for Troy 1st Place Food Pantry in July & August.  Suggestions: Boxed Cereal, sugar, flour, salt, condiments, Canned Fruit or  vegetables, pasta, pasta sauce, canned meats, toiletries, bath tissue, Kleenex, hand soap, shampoos, toothpaste, laundry supplies, kitchen supplies, baby needs, peanut butter, jelly, salad dressing, any non-perishable food. 

 

Troy 1st Place does help families in the Casstown community because of our donations.

 

 

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM   2019 - 2020

          Casstown UMC will be hosting our sixth year of the After School Program during the school year.  This Free program will offer a snack, stories of hope, crafts, games, service projects, and more as well as an opportunity to work on homework with the help of local adults.  This After School Program is for students in grades Kindergarten to fifth grade.  The session dates are:  Sept. 4, Oct. 2, Nov. 6, Dec. 4, 2019; Jan. 8, Feb. 5, Mar. 4, Apr. 1, and May 6, 2020.

 

          This School Year’s Theme will be “Cooking with Jesus”.

 

If you know of any children in Grades K-6 in the Miami East School District, please invite them to join us this fall for our After School Program. We would love to have them join us. Our After School Program is the first Wednesday of each month during the school year from 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. They can call Diane at (937) 339-3677 or leave a message on the church answering machine at (937) 339-4828.

 

 


 

CASSTOWN COMMUNITY OUTREACH

  • We will take donations for FISH in June and for Chris and Lisa in October. Please put your donation in the pink envelope located in the pew and mark who the donation is for on envelope.  Thank you for your support.
  • Casstown Community Block Party is July 27 from 12:00 noon to 4:00 PM. We will set up tent of bake sale items  (in small packages to be consumed at the event). Please price your own items. Example two brownies might have a price of 50 cents.We need some help to sit in the tent from 12:00 noon to 2:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.
  • We will be partnering with Bethel to supply dinner for Miami East band camp 1 day July 30.

Casstown will serve again as a Festival of Sharing Depot Sept 4th and 11th from 4-6 PM.  Need volunteers to be at church to receive kits from other churches. The Festival of Sharing is Sept 14th this year. 

 

          Casstown will be collecting hygiene kits for Festival of Sharing.   Tens of thousands are shipped around the world (and US) each year.

Please include

one hand towel, approx. 15x28" to 16x32", no microfiber
one washcloth
one WIDE tooth comb removed from package  
one fingernail or toenail clipper removed from package
one bath size bar of soap in original package
one toothbrush in original package
10 standard bandaids
Place in 1 gallon zip lock bag
no extra items
Processing $2 per kit
(no need to wrap items in towel just put all items in bag)
Kits needs to be in by Sept 8th.
          If you want to participate in the Hygiene Kit project, but cannot do the shopping, you can donate and we will do the shopping for you.  $15 will cover the kit and the processing
  • If anyone wants to volunteer to be on task force for joint mission trip with Bethel to be in 2020 or 2021 they can let Linda Davidson know.
  • Dates to mark on your calendar:  Holiday bazaar-Nov 24th; Tree lighting-Dec 8th.