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Mission Luncheon and Style Show - Monday, Oct. 8, 2012  save the date

Thanksgiving Distribution
    Nov. 13, 14, and 15 2012
    Donation deadline Nov. 7

Christmas Program Schedule
    Senior Christmas Party -- Thursday, Dec. 13 2012
    Christmas Cottage Distribution -- Saturday, Dec. 21 2012

Holidays 2011 biggest and best year ever!

Thank you for our biggest and best holidays ever! Our donors, volunteers and generous community supporters helped make our Thanksgiving and Christmas surpass all others!  Thanks to all your support, we provided Thanksgiving for over 400 families and Christmas for over 300 families!  We continued our new tradition of providing turkeys and full bags of stuffing mix, instant mashed potatoes, and all the trimmings, as well as fresh produce to all the families who came to our Christmas “store”.   We began another new tradition of providing a holiday food bag to all our seniors who came to their special party on December 8.   Every dollar and can donated, every hour of volunteering, every smile and hug, made holidays brighter and happier for every person who came to The Mission.   While it would be impossible to list every individual or group who contributed to Mission Holidays 2011, we wanted to tell you about Keefer Crossing Middle School Student Council.  These entrepreneurial students with generous and giving hearts, raised and donated $1,033.69 by making paper chains and selling them for ten cents apiece!

2012 Holidays are only a few months away!!  Please make a note of these dates:  Thanksgiving Food Distributions:  Nov. 13, 14, and 15 (Thanksgiving is the 22nd), with food donation deadline Weds. Nov. 7.  Senior Christmas is Dec. 13; with our Christmas Store on Saturday, Dec. 21.

Mission Northeast Job Fair!

We are proud to announce our first Job Fair that will be held at The Mission on Tuesday, March 6, from 12- 2.  There is no charge for either employers or job seekers to attend the event that will be held in our chapel.  A light lunch will be served, and there will be drawings for door prizes.  Mission Northeast provides opportunities for job training through private donations as well as our Project Independence Education Grant (thank you, Montgomery County United Way!).  We have a “job board” in our chapel and each day we encourage our clients to seek employment!  If you would like to participate in our Job Fair and/or our Jobs Ministry, please call 281-354-1200 and speak with Harriet (ext. 204) or Kathy, (ext. 206).  In the next few weeks we will begin a “jobs ministry” and are seeking volunteers who could help people apply online for jobs,  create resumes, and prepare for the workforce.  Maybe this is the volunteer opportunity you have been waiting for! We encourage our community to support our commitment to end the cycle of poverty in so many of our Mission families.

$1 Million Challenge!!

2012 marks the 15th Annual $1 Million Giveaway to Fight Hunger due to the generosity of the Alan Shawn Feinstein Foundation.  Past challenges have raised over $1.2 Billion (!) for over 2,000 hunger fighting agencies. Thanks to the wonderful ladies at Curves in Porter, we are one of the agencies that has been designated to receive up to $35,000 in matching donations made to The Mission between March 1 and April 30 of this year!  Simply hold a food drive or collect monetary donations featuring The Feinstein Foundation Challenge and Mission Northeast during that time period, and we will send the results to The Feinstein Foundation.  For more information, visit www.feinsteinfoundation.org or contact pdickson@missionne.org.

Donation Updates

If you have driven by The Mission lately, you have seen our new gate!  When the gate is closed, we ask that you not leave donations unattended.  Our donation hours are:  Monday: 8:30-11:30; Tues, Weds and Thurs: 8 – 3:30.  If the Donation Door is closed, please ring the doorbell next to it. If you would like an acknowledgement of your donation, ask for and fill out a donation receipt with a general description of your donation, your name and address.  Leave the form with us, and we will complete the information and mail back your receipt.  We are always grateful for your generous donations –thank you!!

Hola! ESL is Growing!

We are very excited to announce the growth of our ESL (English as a Second Language) classes at The Mission.  Beginning this month, Rose Marie Hartley will become the director of this program and will implement great new changes that include pre-class assessments of English language skills for each client/student and three levels of instruction, according to those skills, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.  Rose Marie will be assisted by husband Hap Hartley and long time Mission friend and ESL facilitator Patty Robinson.  We currently have nearly 30 people signed up for the classes, and look forward to a very successful program!

Mission Holidays

This Holiday season marks a banner year for Mission Northeast as we served 470 families for Thanksgiving (100 more families than any other year!) and we are getting ready for a busy 3 weeks preparing Christmas gifts and food bags for nearly 400 families. Just how many cans of sweet potatoes, chicken broth and cranberry sauce do we still need? Well, how about 400 more! In addition, we need toys and gifts for about 1,000 people, ages 0- to 90.  Mission Northeast is the only agency in our service area that provides a special Christmas for our Senior Citizens, with cake, punch, choirs, Santa, food, and gifts.  This year our Senior Christmas party will be Thursday Dec. 8. We are still in need of $20 Wal Mart gift cards for our seniors, as well as $15 Wal Mart and Star Plex Cinema gift cards for our teens, ages 13-17 and hundreds of toys for boys and girls 0-12.  Our homebound delivery to 40 disabled families will take place Dec. 15. Our annual “Christmas Store” will be held Saturday, Dec. 17.  If you would like to help provide any of the needed items, please contact Vicki Underwood at 281-354-1200 or e-mail pdickson@missionne.org.  Tax exempt donations may also be made on this web site or by mail. Our deadline for homebound delivery and the Christmas Store is Dec. 14. 

Mission Thanksgiving

Kroger Signature store at Grogans Mill in The Woodlands helps make Thanksgiving happier for 470 families.

Pictured, store manager Tom Truver and Mission director Pam Dickson
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