Outreach

Mission and Outreach seeks to serve those less fortunate members of our local and international communities.  We actively support the local community:  Arundel House of Hope, Habitat for Humanity, Holiday Sharing, Paul’s Place, SPAN, Winter Shelter, and the Severna Park Community Center.  We also provide our facilities to Boy Scout’s of America, Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, Mother’s of Multiples, and the Aspergers Support Group. 

Internationally, through the Haiti Partnership, paired with the ECW, Outreach provides financial and material support to La Resurrection School and the Women’s Vocational Center located in Gros Morne, Haiti.  

All are invited to join the Mission & Outreach Commission with both their time and talent to fulfill our greater mission “to serve.”  We welcome your help in the work of the commission to assist those who need our support. Contact our commissioners for more information about any of our outreach ministries:

• Local Outreach: Cynthia Shimp-Day
• International Outreach: Dan Tootle

Some opportunities for service include:

Arundel House of Hope/Fouse Center:  This organization provides emergency, transitional, and permanent housing for the homeless; employment assistance, and mental health and substance abuse support. To help, contact Mike Garabedian.

ECW (Episcopal Church Women):  These ladies work with the Haiti Partnership to sustain the Women’s Vocational Center in Gros Morne; provide scholarships for the Day School; and raise funds through the Annual Christmas Bazaar and the Spring Plant Sale to fund other outreach ministries. We meet one morning a week.  All St. Martin’s women are warmly welcomed. To join, contact Gladys Thew at 410-647-8061.

Haiti Partnership:  A combined effort of the church and Day School to provide the needs of La Resurrection School in Gros Morne, Haiti. To help, contact Dan Tootle. 

From Pere Jean Leonard, La Resurrection School, Gros Morne, Haiti:

Dear Friends, This is to thank you for the money that you sent for the soccer team at the Resurrection school. With your support we have a nice soccer uniforms and a nice team and the best team also, they already earned three matches, may be our team will be the champion in this game. Thank you so much for your help. God bless you! Jean Lenord.

Endorsement from the Diocese of Haiti

SA kap fet en haiti? …  (What’s new? in Haitian Creole. ) 
Pere Jean Lenord Quatorze, priest-in-charge of La Resurrection Parish and head of La Resurrection School will be visiting with St. Martin's Parish and Day School while here for the Friends of La Resurrection Parish meeting on February 11th.  He will be accompanied by Ms. Angela Galbreath, ECUSA Missioner to Haiti and Assistant Director of the Haiti Partnership Program.  The Friends Meeting will bring together all of the U.S. Episcopal Parish partners of the La Resurrection Parish schools, women's center, and health clinics to meet with Pere Quatorze and Ms. Galbreath, and with each other to better organize our mutual efforts in supporting the families and children at Gros Morne, Haiti.  Host families are still needed to provide lodging and transportation for our out-of-town visitors on February 10-12, 2010.  If you want to attend the meeting on Saturday, or can assist by being a host family, please contact Dan Tootle.

Holiday Sharing:  This program provides food baskets and gifts at Thanksgiving and Christmas for some of the neediest families in our county. To help, contact David & Mary Ina Bourdon.

Paul’s Place:  A soup kitchen in Baltimore where many of our parishioners supply casseroles and three others serve lunch the 1st Tuesday of the month to the residents/homeless of the Baltimore community of Washington Village/Pigtown. To help serve food, contact Sylvia Marston at 410-647-7493. To make chili, contact Carol Roesle. 

Scouts:  St. Martin’s has sponsored Boy Scout Troop 355 for 50 years.  Parishioners are always welcome.New in 2009, the Day School is adding a “Daisy Troop” for girls in kindergarten and 1st grade to initiate the Brownie/Girl Scout continuum. To join the Daisy Troop, contact Leah Conway . To join the Boy Scouts, contact Bobbi Heller.

SPAN (Severna Park Assistance Network):  A group of area churches, through which parishioners  donate food and financial assistance to the families in crisis in the Severna Park area. To help, contact Amy Schultheis or Anne Minor Kurtz.

Winter Shelter:  A ministry of Arundel House of Hope, this a rotating winter shelter for homeless men, now in its 15th year;  it provides direct services of meals, beds, showers for approximately two dozen men each winter. To help, contact Susan Griesmyer.

Severna Park Community Center:  A neighborhood gathering place for swimming, sports, and other community activities. For more information, contact Nick Codd.