MI Drive This Weekend
October 7th, 2009 Posted in Charities, Mentally Impaired by Tom ConveryThis weekend is our fall MI Drive. This semi-annual drive held on Columbus Day weekend in the fall and Palm Sunday weekend in the spring is a hallmark Knights of Columbus event and our chief source of financial support to provide assistance to the mentally impaired in our community and across the state. Our chairman, Steve Brown has put a good deal of time and effort into securing permits for collection at major intersections and at local storefronts. Steve has had a fair response to his several emails, but many time slots are still open for assignment.
Together we form the body of Christ. As the body of Christ, we can bring healing, comfort, and the good news of salvation to a suffering world. This weekend, I am asking you to be the hands of Christ reaching out with our collection can to solicit funds. I am asking you to be the hands that take the donations to the rectory basement where it will be sorted, counted, and deposited. We will be the hands that give comfort to those mentally impaired brothers and sisters who need our help.
For each hour you spend on a corner, we can hope to raise around $50.00 for the Mentally Impaired. If each of our Brother Knights could find just 2 hours this weekend, we could raise over $10,000.00. Please try to squeeze time out of you busy schedule this weekend to help in this work. Be the hand of Christ reaching out to a world in desperate need of His healing touch.
Follow this link to our online interactive spreadsheet on Google Docs. There is a separate tab in the spreadsheet for each location and time slots for each day which you can fill in. Just find an empty time slot that fits your schedule and put your name in it. The spreadsheet is updated in real time, so you know up-to-the-minute where we need help and where we are covered. Here is the link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgnCm8Io9A-CdFpzZDJ1R0NIVnBPVGI2RWN1Y2tzVGc&hl=en
Thank you for all you do to build up the Body of Christ.
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