WHERE’S 2ND STREET?
HERE WE ARE!!!!
2025
Sept. 21: Drop In Center (DIC) ~ Community Wellness Collective (CWC) personnel: DIC phone #503-538-9761 M-F 9-5 https://www.facebook.com/dropincenter.org
A place for people to get in out of the weather and connect to community resources (food, clothes, showers, laundry, overnight shelter…) and enjoy a meal.
Contact Valerie at valerie@communitywellnesscollective.org if you are wanting to volunteer.
Other ways to volunteer/help this ministry by bringing a meal down to the center or contributing to the Giving Tree for DIC needs each Christmas through 2nd Street. You also can donate $ through 2nd Street, either through Sunday’s offering or online donation through 2nd Street.
Oct. 5: Safe Families for Children ~ Rob & Bethany Leslie: Rob and Bethany are happy to answer what questions they can via email, text message, or face to face. Website: https://safe-families.org/
The three objectives of Safe Families for Children are:
Keep children safe during a family crisis such as homelessness, hospitalization, or domestic violence in an effort to prevent child abuse and/or neglect.
Support, stabilize, and strengthen families facing crisis by surrounding them with caring, compassionate community.
Reunite families and reduce the number of children entering the child welfare system. We seek to be an alternative to foster care, where appropriate.
More volunteers are always needed! There are all kinds of ways to help, not just overnight hosting of children, such as being a friend, coaching parents, giving rides, etc. And if you can't volunteer, "resource friends" can support families with donations of money, goods, and services.
Oct. 19: ~ Doug & Dianna McIntyre
Information coming soon!
Nov. 16: Prisoner Visitation and Support (PVS) ~ Tom Slick Email tbslick@frontier.com. If there is a group that would just like to sit and ask questions or hear about what it is like to visit inside a prison, I would be happy to meet, maybe on a Sunday before or after Church. Website https://www.prisonervisitation.org/
Short description of ministry: Prisoner Visitation and Support (PVS) is a volunteer visitation program for federal and military prisoners throughout the United States.
Our mission is to provide prisoners with regular, face to face contact from the world outside of prison to help them cope with prison life, encourage personal growth, and prepare for successful reentry into society
Are more volunteers needed for this ministry?: Yes. Locally we could use two more volunteers in order to make sure there is a visitor for all prisoners requesting a visit.
Are there other ways to volunteer/help this ministry? Not really. The policies of the Bureau of Prisons are such that we can not have any other contact with the prisoner other than the visit. We can't send anything to them such as books and we can't have any contact with family members.
Anything else you want to share?: In addition to the impact visiting has on prisoners, many visitors, including me, say that it is a life changing experience.
Dec. 7: ~ Karen Forsyth
Information coming soon!
Dec. 21: ~ Elizabeth Todd
Information coming soon!
December: Marafiki, Inc ~ Eloise Hockett: eloise@marafiki.us Phone/txt: 503.307.7829 or in person. Website for more information: www.marafiki.us
Short description of ministry: Marafiki, which means "friends" in Swahili, is a small independent non-profit organization which operates out of Newberg, OR. Our current work is focused in Kenya, East Africa, primarily in the Western Region of the country.
Our tagline states: utilizing education as a vehicle for change. Marafiki's focus is to collaborate within groups or communities in Kenya, with the focus on collaboration, in order to bring sustainability to the communities we are working with.
Education is the umbrella theme of our work, with 4 main con-current emphases: education-related needs for schools; healthcare education, spiritual development, and agriculture development.
Marafiki's main projects include: scholarships to high school for students from Musembe primary school; sanitary supplies for girls at Musembe school; feeding program at exam time at Musembe school; healthcare education; and widows food baskets. We also raise funds for special projects as needs arise. Some recent projects include: new floors for several classrooms at Musembe school; leveling the outdoor playing fields at Musembe school; supporting Lugulu hospital following loss of USAID funding; support for Lugulu's new operation room; and grants for women's groups and their business projects.
Are more volunteers needed for this ministry?: To raise funds for these ministries, Marafiki holds an artisan bazaar each November/December. Volunteers are always needed to make quality handmade items to be sold, help set up for the sale and take down, and invite family and friends to support Marafiki's work in Kenya.
Are there other ways to volunteer/help this ministry? We invite people to pray for our ministry and the ongoing impact our work has had since the organization was founded in 2006. Marafiki also welcomes financial donations throughout the year. A donor can decide how often they want to donate and for how much. Potential donors can also support a student for high school, or even college for those students who do well enough in high school to qualify for college. A high school scholarship is $600 a year for a commitment of 4 years to ensure that there is not a gap in funding for the sponsored student. Donations can be made via check mailed to: Marafiki, Inc. PO Box 332, Newberg, OR 97132. Or, donations can be made through the website at: www.marafiki.us All donations are tax-deductible and receipts are provided.
Anything else you want to share? I (Eloise) greatly appreciate the way the 2nd Street community has supported Marafiki's work over the years. It takes a village to meet the needs in another village!
2026