Doing Good in the World
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Mission Outreach Grant Awards
Each year, St. Mary’s provides a total of about $10,000 in endowment-supported grant funding for small, community-oriented non-profit organizations and church outreach activities through the Mission Outreach Grant project. This year, the application review team has chosen 11 grant recipients, which we will be highlighting in the newsletter in the coming weeks so that the whole congregation can share in the joy and blessing that our church family is bringing to others through this work.
This year the Outreach Grant Committee awarded funding to help support the St. Mary’s Youth Group's recent Mission Partnership trip to Colombia. While there, they worked with the local Indigenous population to help build two classrooms, a kitchen, and restrooms for a small school in the remote area of Santa Teresita, and provided 200 menstrual supply kits from the organization Days for Girls, which works to improve health and education access for girls. They also brought numerous soccer balls, which they left behind as farewell gifts at the end of their trip. But perhaps most importantly of all, they formed strong bonds of spirituality and friendship with the youths they met in Colombia.
Pictured: the Mission Partnership team, shortly after their arrival in Colombia