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St. Matthew Lutheran Church |
St. Matthew Lutheran Church 8819 FM 2621 Brenham, Texas 77833 979/836.8894 |
Here are some of the community service projects members of St. Matthew's participate in: |
Senior Meal Delivery-- Volunteers Serving in the Community with Senior Meals: These volunteers deliver meals to Seniors in seven homes. Thank you all!!! |
Nursing Home Visits |
Christmas Carolling |
Christmas In Independence-- Celebrated December 19 & 20, 2010 from 6 - 8 pm in Independence, TX. Visitors came out to enjoy cookies & hot chocolate, listen to the choir, and experience the celebration of Christ's birth. Canned goods were accepted and donated to Bread Partners of Washington County. |
Independence Day Celebration |
December 2009, St Matthew participated in the Independence Live Nativity: Angels announce the birth of a savior to the startled shepherds. Angels, glowing and brilliant in the night - their faces veiled by the glory of God that shown around them. |
2009 Crew! |
Fishing is always a popular pastime. And once you paid Michelle or Winnie, Rudy would help you put the bait on. |
Setting up the fish pond and kick ball - hard work but fun too. |
Some Kickball pro was right on target. The mountain lion did not stand a chance. |
We have been participating in the 4th of July Celebration in Independence. This year we sponsored a fish pond and kick ball area. |
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The membership of St. Matthew Lutheran Church-Sandy Hill generously shows their caring for God's people in need. Through their loving handiwork the Women of the Church during the period Easter 2010 to Easter 2011 sewed 60 quilts and assembled 31 school kits for distribution through Lutheran World Relief. Since Easter of 2011, the ladies have sewn 49 quilts, 17 of which have been sent to the Southwest Indian Foundation, and they have doubled to 61 the number of school kits, each of which contained about $11 worth of supplies for elementary school children. In 2010, the generosity of the membership of St. Matthew touched people, and especially children, internationally in Haiti, Central African Republic, and Peru. On domestic and local levels, our benevolence reached the Lutheran Domestic Disaster Relief Fund, Higgins Help Center and Faith Mission, Bread Partners, Habitat for Humanity, and Luther Hill. The total contribution to these causes was $6,573. Benevolence support in 2011 is on schedule to surpass the 2010 level by 79%! We praise the Lord for blessing the charity of our congregation. In 2011, disbursed and budgeted items scheduled to be disbursed total $11,740. The congregation of St. Matthew is sponsoring mission work in Eastern Europe and Russia, across Southern USA, and at home in Brenham. Our congregation has responded to tornado, flood, and wildfire disasters across the United States. We are supporting the work of Hospice Brazos Valley, which services the needs of the terminally and chronically ill citizens in Washington County. We are thankful for our association with Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) and made donations to LCMC operations and to recently graduated seminarians. We pray for God's blessing on St. Matthew's gifts of love. We pray for God's blessing on the organizations and charities who accept our gifts in support of their mission. We pray for God's blessing on all in need who are beneficiaries of gifts sent from St. Matthew Lutheran Church-Sandy Hill. |
We also provide the facilities for meetings of the Sandy Hill chapter of the Washington County 4-H club. |