Be sure to mark your calendar for Saturday, August 2 for the work day at Trinity Lutheran School. This will be a time of yard work outside and preparing the interior for the start of school. Complete details are on the sign up sheet in the narthex, and you may contact Leslie Heumann if you have questions or need more details. This is another opportunity to support the only LCMS Lutheran elementary school in our county—and another way to be Hope in our community!

Our Sherwood Elementary backpack and teacher supply donations drive was a hit yet again this year. We were able to fill 14 backpacks with an additional grade level bag of supplies this year. In addition, we were able to supply well over $300 in teacher only supplies via Thrivent cards which included Clorox wipes, tissues, paper towels, dry erase markers, sanitizer, permanent markers and most importantly copy paper for the many teachers who bless our communities’ children here in Melbourne. It is thanks to you, Hope, for valuing the need to help our teachers give their all each year.  Your generosity is appreciated!

For August, food items will not be due until August 10th. Any non-expired non-perishable items are appreciated. Some of the most needed items are peanut butter, jelly, pasta, pasta sauce, rice, cereal, macaroni and cheese, and granola bars. Should you have any questions, please speak with Nancy Sutter. You can reach her at 321-537-2717. Thank you for your support.

Items are always welcomed year-round.  We are purchasing underwear using Outreach funds this month.  Hope members can help by supplying socks unisex, men’s or woman’s. We plan to alternant Outreach funds and Thrivent funds to allow for more Thrivent activities throughout the church. As always, if you have any questions please contact Tori Cooper.

We will be taking the month of August off and will resume in September. Should you have any questions, please speak to Nancy Sutter. You can reach her at 321-537-2717. Thank you for your support.

Hope Cares is a program that matches needs with resources all within our Hope family community. Here are just a few of the categories we could use help in providing:

              -Greeting cards to shut-ins and emails

              -Meals to homes – mostly after surgery, births, and so on

              -Transportation – mostly to church, appointments, important errands

              -Contribute food to funeral lunches, as per the family’s request

If you would like to be a resource providing these activities, please fill out a gold half-sheet which is on table in the narthex then check off your choices.  Next, please give the form to Deaconess Lois or drop off in the church office. You will receive an email, or phone call, when a request for these items comes up.

Hope Cares is truly a blessing to our Hope family.  Thank you for your help.

If you would like more information, please contact Deaconess Lois Diebel at 321-536-0430 or deaconess.lois@hope-brevard.org

• Operation Christmas Child
• Gifts from the Heart
• Guardian ad Litem Angel Tree
• Children's Hunger Project
• New Life Mission
• CITA Mission
• The Haven for Children
• Trinity Lutheran School
• Sherwood Elementary School
• Daily Bread, The Sharing Center, Genesis Food Pantry
  
• Family Promise of Brevard
  
• Habitat for Humanity
• LCMS and LWML
• Seven AA Groups