OUTREACH

Our commitment to helping those in need is one of the hallmarks of Holy Apostles.  Each year we participate in a wide variety of projects including:

Backpack Project –

Each summer we gather and distribute school supplies to needy children through the Emmanuel Episcopal Center as well as through several local schools.  Contact: Tasha Kawell or Bryan Massey.

Christmas Outreach Project

We adopt children through the Emmanuel Episcopal Center’s Adopt-a-Child program.  Then we purchase wonderful Christmas gifts for the children, wrap them, and deliver them.  Contact:  Bonnie Barnes or Jane Harris.

Collierville Food Pantry – Holy Apostles volunteers help gather, organize, and distribute food to our hungry neighbors.  In the past year – during Lent and just prior to Thanksgiving – we held food drives that collected over a ton of food for the pantry.  Contact: Tasha Kawell or Carole Capra (during Lent) or Stephanie Tancredi or Carole Capra (during November).

Collierville Literacy Council – Holy Apostles provides volunteers to tutor adults in Collierville and the surrounding areas who want to increase their basic reading skills, prepare for GED, and learn English as a second language.  We experience joy at seeing area residents being able to read (for the first time) prescription labels and product label warnings, to write checks, to search the internet, and to read to their children and grandchildren.  For further information see Collierville Literacy Council.  Contact: Carole Capra.

Grocery Card Program – Do you buy groceries?  If you register your grocery card at Kroger or Schnucks, a small portion of your purchases are credited and returned to Holy Apostles.  Monies collected in the past have been used to purchase our playground equipment, and in support of such charities as Heifer International, Memphis Street Ministries, and MIFA.  Contact: Tom McCann.

Helping Hands Mentoring Program

Each month Holy Apostles mentors a group of sixth graders and eighth graders from Emmanuel Episcopal Center.  Holy Apostles began the Helping Hands mentoring program with 6 students.  The purpose of this mentoring relationship is threefold: 

• To nurture, encourage, and celebrate the students’ academic achievements
• To increase the students’ exposure to and awareness of various career paths
• To help prepare these students for and aid them in their college admissions

The ECW supports the mentoring program by providing box lunches and collecting books.  Contact: Claudia Sims or Lisa Leach.

Knitting for Need - Contact: Teresa Davis

Mission Trips – Each summer our youth with adult chaperones plan a mission trip.  In 2010 they traveled with others from Church of the Holy Communion to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to continue to help with efforts to restore their community from all the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.  Contact: Penny Goldberg.

More Than a Meal – On the fourth Sunday of each month Holy Apostles’ volunteers help prepare and serve a hot meal for More Than a Meal at Grace-St. Luke’s Church in Memphis.  Additionally, we donate dessert items or cheese sandwiches for the estimated 1200 guests annually.  Contact: Mary Ann Thompson.

Sewing Group - Contact:  Pat Wasilik

Warm Up America – Crafters of the parish participate in this nationwide knitting and crocheting project to benefit the needy.  All experience levels welcome, including those who want to learn.  Moriah House, the women’s shelter of Memphis Union Mission, was the recipient of January 2009's blankets.  Contact: Teresa Davis

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