Hands on Hope will be at work at New Life Mission’s Fall Festival which was rescheduled for  Saturday, November 16. As far as we know at this time, the basic details of the event remain the same. A new signup sheet is in the narthex so that you may indicate how to help with this activity. If you have questions, please see Nancy or Dave Roberts (804-513-5375, 804-512-1496). We will wear our Hope t-shirts and share Hope in our community!

Once again, Hope’s Thanksgiving baskets will be going to The South Brevard Sharing Center. You can purchase the items off the shopping list for a basket or provide a cash donation to purchase gift cards for turkeys as well as baskets. (Grocery bags work well as "baskets) A $20 donation will buy a turkey and a $32.00 donation will provide a basket. The sign-up sheet, shopping list, and envelopes are in the Narthex. Cash donations/Baskets are due at Hope by Sun., Nov. 10th.  Should you have any questions, please contact Nancy Sutter at (321) 537-2717. Thank you for helping those less fortunate to enjoy a holiday meal!

If you are looking for a project, we would like to suggest fleece blankets. Our plan is to have kits always available in the narthex for this year-round activity to benefit the homeless clients at Daily Bread. Illustrated directions are included in the kits, but you may contact Nancy Sutter, Alison Hatch, or Nancy Roberts if you have questions. There are no due dates to return the completed blankets, but we would suggest 2-3 weeks as a good time frame. This is a great activity for all members of the family and yet another way to be Hope in our community.

We will be using a Thrivent card to purchase hoodies/ jackets for November. Hope members can donate men’s and women’s socks. We are heading into the “Florida cold season” which means Daily Bread is in need of warm/ layering clothing including sweat pants, jackets, hoodies, sweaters, long sleeve shirts, blankets and thick socks. These items can be dropped off any time. I encourage you to clean out your closets for a good cause. Thank you again to all those who have continued to tie all the  donated fleece together into wonderful warm blankets for those in our community. We have donated well over 60 blankets since we started this program and every one of them have been given directly to members of the community. They do not spend any time at all on the shelves. Another item that flies off the shelves quickly are men’s medium size boxes. If you have any questions, be sure to contact Tori Cooper. 

Food on the First/B.L.A.S.T. Food Pantry at Eau Gallie High School will be collected this coming Sunday, November 3rd. For November, BLAST is requesting pasta, pasta sauce, and soups. For the pasta sauce, canned sauce is preferred. Hunts makes a nice canned sauce and it is typically less expensive than the jarred sauce. The glass jars are harder for the students to handle so please try to avoid them. If necessary, plastic jars should be fine. Be sure to sign the Thrivent sheet when you bring in your food. As always thank you for continuing to help provide items for needy children at Eau Gallie High. These food donations help students who would otherwise not have enough food to survive the weekend when their daily breakfast and lunches are not provided by the school. If you have questions, please contact Nancy Sutter at 321-537-2717. 

This month's cookies will be going to the Melbourne Police Department and will be due on November 17. If you haven’t been involved before, it involves baking 30 cookies,  bagging them 2 to a Ziplock bag, placing a Hope label on each bag, and bringing them to Hope. The Hope labels are available in the Narthex Bakers’ Blessings box, and you may return the cookies to that same box by November  17th. A sign-up sheet is on the Narthex table. Nancy Sutter (321-537-2717) is the contact person for this ministry. ***Please note, If you need to drop off your cookies early, that is fine. Just place them in the freezer, and note that they are in the freezer on the sign-up sheet in the "cookies delivered" box.

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