Service to Church and Our Community
Our Quarterly Free Community Breakfast: 
We served another meal in November around Veterans Day. Offered in the church fellowship hall, we will again in early 2012 provide a tasty and no-cost offering to all who are hungry. Please feel free to “come back for seconds” as we feel this is one way to serve and say “thanks” for a mutual spirit of good will from us to you.
Food for Lane County food barrels:
are regularly filled by members to distribute to “hunger challenged” people; currently all barrels have been emptied, so we are challenged now to refill three again by All Saints Sunday in November! A fourth barrel is available for folks to use as needed during our regular office hours.
School Kits, Health Kits, Clothing Help:
is a long-time association and cooperative effort, given as needed and/or requested to local grade schools throughout the year. Specific classroom supplies are collected by members and distributed on a regular basis, usually at the start of the school year and at Christmas/winter months.
Quilts, Infant Care Packages, and Health Kits for Lutheran World Relief:
Our faithful quilters meet weekly to provide full-size quilts for the collection of quilts, baby care items, and health kits for distribution locally and across the world. Regularly (in the Spring and Autumn) 60+ quilts are presented at worship, along with other the care items. They are blessed for usage, and then sent along with similar collections by over 10,000 sister ELCA and LCMS churches as aid to grateful recipients.
ELCA/Lutheran World Relief Disaster Response and Hunger Appeal:
is “in place” in America and around the world; current efforts include continuing appeals from natural disasters during the spring storms in America’s Midwest and ongoing appeals for relief with the recent earthquake in Japan, and now helping international relief for the devastating disaster in Somalia. Check out the current staus and how you can help by clicking on the ELCA home page website on our Welcome page.
Kitchen Committee:
Our kitchen co-chairwomen check supplies used regularly in the church kitchen, buying replacements as needed. They organize, with the committee’s help, food and/or help for special church events, and arrange for food to be served after funerals when requested by families. If friends/church members wish to provide food or help in the kitchen and haven’t been asked, please call our kitchen chairwomen. That makes their job easier! If you prefer to donate money instead of food, they will gladly use that money to buy food for the meal or snack. Money should be given to either kitchen chairwoman or it can be given by check to SLCW and marked for the Funeral Hospitality Fund.
Sharing food with the family is a healing time; we do it as a service. Some families, however, do make a donation to Springfield Lutheran Church Women as a means of showing their appreciation.