Outreach:

Objective: To offer support to those in need outside the parish, in response to Christ's command and as an expression of God's love.

Your contributions to the Outreach Ministry provide immediate and ongoing support for charitable needs in Los Alamos and elsewhere. We provide direct donations of money, food and household items, and coordinate various parish outreach activities. Through this ministry TOTH has a significant impact worldwide for improving people's lives and helping them in times of trouble. Our bulletin board near the Church office shows some of the many charities that we support.

Outreach Budget
Outreach's initial 2004 budget was $11,174 but, along with other ministry budgets, was reduced in June by the Vestry, to $10,446. In addition to this, we had $519 from 2003 (a voided check and a misclassified gift). We adjusted our plan to expend the budget approximately equally among local, regional, national, and international needs due to unprecedented hurricane disasters in Florida and humanitarian response to terrorism in Russia. Major distributions from the Outreach budget (see also non-budget funds) are listed below. Outreach has been allocated $10,000 for its 2005 budget.

Activities:

• Distribute parish Outreach funds to appropriate charities and individuals outside the parish internationally, nationally, regionally and locally.
• Respond to emergencies, locally and beyond.
• Keep the congregation informed about need and projects of the Ministry so that all parishioners, including children, will have an opportunity to serve.
• Oversee Thanksgiving and Christmas basket offering project, Adopt-a-Family project, United Thank Offerings and Episcopal Renewal and Development offerings, and any other such projects in which the Ministry chooses to participate.
• Coordinate ecumenical activities with other local churches and agencies, such as Interfaith Recovery Network and Self help.