Hope will be serving dinner on Thursday, July 2, for the clients and staff of CITA Rescue Mission. Our dinner will be a summertime meal provided by Beth Hazley (2chicksandapot) and Thrivent. We also plan to be a part of their evening service with a patriotic theme to follow. We can use meal servers from 4:45 to 6 p.m. to assist in this Hands on Hope activity, and you may sign up to help on the sign-up sheet in the narthex. The CITA Mission is located at 2330 Johnny Ellison Dr., Melbourne. Please contact Dave Roberts (dlrobertsfl@gmail.com or 804-512-1496) if you have questions.

This month’s cookies will go to the Melbourne Police Department and will be due on July 26. The sign-up sheet is in the Narthex. We are asking for 2 ½ dozen cookies to be bagged two to a bag in Ziplock Baggies. Please take a bag of “Baker’s Blessings” labels and put one on each bag of cookies. When you deliver your cookies, please put a check mark in the “Cookies Delivered” box. Should you have any questions, please contact Nancy Sutter at (321) 537-2717. Thank you!

Sign Up for Sherwood Backpacks and supplies will be provided on July 12th with a drop off date of July 28^th.  Again, please do not return items during VBS July 13-17^th as we will be using the Narthex and will not have room to store items. We will be using Thrivent cards to  purchase the children’s backpacks.  You will only need to purchase the items listed on the provided school supplies list. More information to come. 

There will be a Thrivent card used to purchase Men’s white T-shirts.  Our Hope members may donate shampoo/ conditioner. As always, any items donated are greatly appreciated. 

Thrivent Cards- In addition, if you are NOT a Thrivent member and would like more information, please contact Linda Miller or Tori Cooper.  If you a NEW Hope member and ARE a Thrivent member please inform us so that we can get you on our supporters list. In the last two years, due to those who have passed on to the Lord or those who have or will be moving we have lost roughly 20 Thrivent cards which makes a big impact on our outreach missions balance each year. Thank You for your continued support!

Hope Cares Hope Cares is a program that takes care of our Hope family. There is a lot that all of us can do to be of help to others here at Hope Lutheran. It may be donating food items for funeral and memorial services or sending out sending greeting cards to the homebound or those celebrating birthdays and anniversaries. Perhaps you would like to bless someone by bringing a meal to them in their time of need, due to injury or surgery, or by giving someone a ride to church. We serve our Lord and share our blessings.

Getting involved is easy. Just pick up a goldenrod (yellow/gold) colored half-sheet that lists all the activities we offer and simply choose your interests. Be sure to add your contact information to be added to email lists for chosen activities. You will receive an email to let you know you are added. If you have any questions, my contact information is below. If you ever need to change your list of activities for the program, it’s no problem, just let me know. Deaconess Lois Diebel 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