Military Support

Military Support
As a congregation, we wish to continue to offer support to help and appreciate those who are serving in active duty military and their families.
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What are we doing now? ELCA women are sewing pajamas and distributing them to families through Military Outreach Ministry. Women from Scraps and Prayers make quilts for the Wounded Warriors Center at Camp Pendleton and Naval Medical Center in San Diego. We supported Stand Down for Veterans and Operation Homefront.
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Here are more Volunteer Opportunities:
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1) Operation Homefront
Provides emergency support services to military families in San Diego County to help them through financial and emotional crisis, ranging from the struggles that deployments bring to coping with injury recovery and recuperation.
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Visit this website for more information, www.operationhomefront.net/sandiego or call 866-424-5210.
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2) Armed Services YMCA
Here is a sample of their volunteer opportunities:
Operation Hero is an afterschool mentoring program to address issues faced by young military youth.
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North Co. Honor Campaign is a fund to assist the education of children who lost a parent during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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The Wounded Warrior Battalion helps the Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan War wounded recover.
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The Ball Gown Giveaway program assists active duty and dependent spouses to attend the Navy and Marine Corps Balls.
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Home Hospitality allows single service members to share a homecooked meal at Thanksgiving with a family. If you are interested in this program, please contact ASYMCA at the beginning of September.
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Visit this website for information, www.asymca.org or call 760-385-4921.
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3) Military Outreach Ministries
Provides food, baby and children's items, furniture, household goods, gift cards for grocery and gas stores to military families in need. Maintains the Bread Ministry, referral services, bible studies, and babysitting.Contact www.militaryoutreach.org or call 760-763-7394.
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4) Navy-Marine Corps Relief Services
Provides financial, educational, assistance with car breakdown, maintains food lockers, thrift shops and visiting nurse services to the Navy and Marine soldiers and their families. If you can volunteer your time or talents, they offer reimbursement for mileage and childcare. You don't have to be military to volunteer. Contact www.nmcrs.org or call 760-725-5337.
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5) Army Air Force Exchange Service
Buy prepaid phone calling cards for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to call home and for their families to use. Visit www.aafes.com to find out how to help.
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6) HirePatriots.com is a Christian web site dedicated to help to our Marines, Sailors, vets and their families find one day or short term jobs in the local area. These One Day or short term jobs are very, very important to our military neighbors but there are never nearly enough. The site gets 1500 local troops a day looking for One Day or short term jobs but the site usually only gets 5-10 jobs a day posted. Go to www.hirepatriots.com for information.

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