12 Days of Service 2015

During stake conference the 12 Days of Service Calendar was presented to our stake as a guideline to unify our service efforts for the up coming year.   We encourage you to use it in your priesthood, relief society, young men, young women, primary and other auxiliary meetings when planning your activities for the year.  The goal is to provide you with a theme and ideas as you plan your activities.
 

We also encourage families to use it when planning wholesome activities throughout the year.  Feel free to download to your mobile device or print the calendar.

Back to School Service Project - Day of Service 2014

It's that time again for our Day of Service where we have the opportunity to reach out to our community and show them we are here to serve. 

This year we will be doing projects similar to what we did last year for Cypress Park Elementary, however, we will be helping three schools instead of one.  There will be plenty of work so we need as many of our members as possible to show up to help.  Please feel free to invite your families, neighbors, and less active members to help, we welcome anyone who would like to serve. 

Each ward/branch has been assigned to a school and is to report to that school to help at our day of service. We hope to make a large impact at these schools.  Our hope is that we can develop a relationship with these schools, similar to what we have with Cypress Park Elementary, so our members can continue to serve them in different capacities.

We will be collecting specific items for a Supply Drive for each school.  The same items will be collected for all the schools.  Each building has blue collection bins for each item, please bring your items on Sunday and your ward rep will collect them then.

Orlando Florida Hunters Creek Stake
Day of Service 2014
Back to School Service Project

Date: August 2   
Time: 8am to Noon
Locations:

Hunters Creek & Pleasant Hill
Highland's Elementary School
800 W Donegan Ave, Kissimmee

Poinciana & Wetherbee YSA
Chestnut Elementary School
4300 Chestnut St, Poinciana

St. Cloud, Kissimmee & Lake Nona
Lakeview Elementary School
2900 5th St, St Cloud

The following service projects will be done at each school:

* Outdoor landscaping or beautification
* Indoor deep cleaning projects and
* Helping teachers organize, clean, prepare, and decorate their classrooms

Supply Drive (items needed for donation):

• pre-k to adult shoes, any type
• belts
• tissues
• baby wipes
• copy paper

If you have any further questions please contact your ward Public Affairs representative or Bishopric member listed below.

Hunters Creek: Kneil Baron and Jose Toro
Kissimmee: Eric Hansen and Steve Bravato
Lake Nona: Mark Hahn and Missy Wise
Pleasant Hill: Jay Egg and Chad Tucker
Poinciana: Julio Cruz, Scott Dombrowski, Kathleen Kober
St. Cloud: Daniel Munns and Jessica Arrington
Wetherbee YSA: Michael Cajas 

Video Monday - Daily Meal

Daily Meal is a program organized by the Osceola Christian Ministry Center.  At their facility, meals are served to the homeless daily by several different churches and organizations on a volunteer basis.  



Our stake has been involved in the Daily Meal program for many years at the ward level. After years of having rewarding experiences helping to serve the homeless, we are asking each ward to take part in this wonderful opportunity. Our stake has been assigned one day each month to prepare and serve a meal and each ward has been assigned one of those days See the listing below.

We hope all involved will enjoy serving and remember what Christ taught about serving others.

"Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matthew 25:40


Our assigned day is the 4th Monday of every month.
(Except where noted * on 2 occasions)

Thursday, May 29* - Hunter's Creek Ward
Monday, June 23 - Lake Nona Ward
Monday, July 28 - St. Cloud Ward
Monday, August 25 - Kissimmee Ward
Monday, September 22 - Pleasant Hill Ward
Monday, October 27 - Poinciana Branch
Monday, November 24 - Hunter's Creek Ward
Monday, December 22 - Lake Nona Ward 

Contact Emily Munns with questions or for more information:
Cell Phone: (407) 414-5011   Email: fernsgr888@aol.com
Click here for more details.

Service Opportunity - Book Sorting and Cleaning

Are you in need of volunteer hours, have some extra time to help, or a desire to help children from the age of 5-8 years old improve their reading skills?  Then this is an opportunity for you!

The Osceola County School District is looking for volunteers to help sort and clean over 100,000 books. The book project will give 6 take home books for the summer to all the K to grade 3 students in Osceola County. This is part of a district project to improve reading skills.

A total of 40 pallets of books where purchased and each pallet has 3,000 to 4,000 books that need to be cleaned and sorted.  They are in serious need of volunteers to help with the project.  If you would like to volunteer see the place and times listed below.

Habitat for Humanity Restore
2340 N. Orange Blossom Trail
Kissimmee, FL 34744

Monday - Friday  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday  9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

For more information or any questions you may have please contact Richard Birmingham at (407) 343-7330.