We are currently scheduling groups for the 2019 Emergency Home Projects. Any group that wishes to volunteer, please send your availability to Audrey Collins by email or phone as soon as possible: 606-789-1967.
Four mission groups have already scheduled for the 2019 year.
The need is great and we hope to see many this year.
This summer, we welcomed Helping Hands Christian Missions to the Piarist Outreach Emergency Home Projects. This is a wonderful group dedicated to their Mission and always giving a hand up to those in need. They completed work on two separate homes for families in need this year.
Thank you to our wonderful friends from Holy Spirit at Geist in Fischer’s, IN. This summer, they built a beautiful ramp for an elderly man in need and painted over half of the school’s gymnasium. We could not provide the help we do without the help we receive from the generosity and spirit of others. Thank you to all who worked so hard to help a wonderful man be able to access his home safely.
June 10-15th we welcomed St. Timothy Catholic Church Mission group. They built a ramp for a family in need in Martin, KY and organized our Outreach Room.
This was their first trip to our mountains and we would like to thank everyone for the wonderful gift of serving others. Welcome back anytime guys!
The following is an article from the Painstville Herald.
JCSO “Full Baskets, Full Bellies” feeds 300 kids
A Paintsville Herald staff report
For the second year, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department oversaw the “Full Baskets, Full Bellies” project to ensure more than 300 children in need would not go hungry while they are home for two weeks on Christmas Break.
The sheriff’s office began taking donations as far back as October, with volunteers collecting donations at Walmart and Food City.
“Last year, when we began this project, we weren’t sure how many students we would be able to impact,” said Sheriff Dewayne Price. “This year, we were more prepared and aware of the number of students that we would need to impact. With the summer mobile lunch program implemented this past summer, we knew we wanted to reach many of the students that had taken advantage of the summer lunch program. With the help of the family resource center directors, I was able to obtain contact information for many of those students’ parents or guardians. Either Deputy Clark or one of the volunteers contacted those folks and advised them of the project.”
The students received their baskets at one of several giveaway events, including a swimming party, personal deliveries or a day long event at the sheriff’s office.
Sheriff Price said that, in addition to getting the baskets into the hands of the students, he wanted to spend this year meeting them personally.
“Some have never met an officer, others may have had parents arrested,” Price said. “I wanted them to know I, or one of the Johnson County Sheriff’s officers, are always a phone call away.”
Program organizers worked with Audrey Collins of the Piarist School Outreach and Ramanda Penix at the First Methodist Church in Paintsville, and were able to use extra food from the program to help stock the church’s Blessing Box
“Our community projects touch hundreds of people each year,” Price said. “However, this project is the most meaningful to me. We feed kids.”
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