March

March 24, 2007
Finishing Touches Added to North Side Community Center.
Over 20 volunteers representing 3 different faith groups put the finishing touches on the North Side Team Ministries’ Community Center.  Volunteers replaced ceiling tiles, finished up with the inside painting of the walls and primed the outside of the building in preparations for a new shade of paint.  One group of volunteers worked at the Third Ward Neighborhood Council Building to help weed and plant flowers around the trees in the front of the building.  Special thanks to Maryville University, Chuck Tyler and Bobbie Small of North Side Team Ministries and Howard LeRight of the Neighborhood Council.   

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March 11, 2007
Planned Poverty Simulation Turns into Interfaith Discussion
An afternoon planned poverty simulation turned into a round table discussion between faith communities when fewer volunteers arrived than anticipated.  Community resource volunteers discussed strategies to tackle and address issues around poverty and how people of faith can respond.  Special thanks to Immanuel UCC for hosting this event. 

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March 10, 2007
Dedication to North Side Team Ministries Moves Forward
Continuing FBW’s dedication to North Side Team Ministries’ Community Center, 31 volunteers, representing 4 faith groups, came out on beautiful Saturday morning.  Volunteers were split into three teams to tackle tearing up carpeting, cleaning up alleys and designing a future food pantry.  Thank you to all of our volunteers who truly put their faith into action.  Special thanks to the Let’s Connect group, Chuck Tyler and Bobbie Small of North Side Team Ministries and Howard LeRight of the Third Ward Neighborhood Council

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February

February 24, 2007
Cold and Rainy Weather Does Not Stop These Volunteers.
Despite the unpleasant rainy weather, 16 youth from St. Joseph’s 8th grade Public School Religion class in Imperial, Missouri worked hard and made a difference for the College Hill Community on the first day of our Mini-SLICE program.  The FBW volunteers worked with the North Side Team Ministry staff to help clear debris out of the warehouse and add a fresh new coat of paint to the walls in a room that will be later used as community center for local youth or meeting space for local residents.  The storage area will be used in the future for a small food pantry.  Thank you to all volunteers for your hard work and dedication to the project. A special thanks to Chuck Tyler and Bobbie Small from the North Side Team Ministries, Howard LeRight of the Neighborhood Council.

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February 19, 2007
Interfaith Girls Spent Day off Volunteering at Lydia’s House with Nishmah.
Twelve local high school girls, representing 5 faith groups spend their day off from school, President’s Day, having an interfaith discussion and service project.  These young girls came to Lydia’s house to help sort and organize donations.  The staff facilitated a discussion focused on the topic of domestic violence and discussed warning signs of unhealthy relationships and how their respected faith groups respond to these situations.  These donations are used at Lydia’s House to help furnish apartments for women who have left a violent situation and are trying to rebuild their lives.  Special thanks to Lydia’s House staff and Ronit Sherwin of Nishmah.

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February 3, 2007
Local Volunteers Come Out in Masses to Help local Foodbank.
With so many willing Faith Beyond Walls volunteers, the St. Louis Area Foodbank had created two sessions in order to make use of the 54 volunteers representing 6 different faith groups who came to help sort and organize boxes of food to be distributed among local food pantries.  The group processed 13,292 lbs of food that will provide 10,850 meals for the hungry. Special thanks to Brett Moeller at the St. Louis Area Food bank for his flexibility.

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January

January 15, 2007
Metro-East Youth, Neighbors for Renewal –Monday, January15, 2007(MKL Day)
Faith Beyond Walls had 24 volunteers for this great day of clean-up and interfaith discussion.  These volunteers helped in preparing an old house, for Neighbors for Renewal to be converted into an area food pantry.  They also had an interfaith discussion focused on how each faith group values putting faith in action as demonstrated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Also recent holy days such as, Ramadan, Christmas and High Holidays and their significance were discussed. There were many faith groups represented; Disciples of Christ, Bahá'í, Hindu, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, Jewish, Muslim, Community of Christ.  Thank you to all of our volunteers who put there faith into action!  Special thanks to Rev. Drew Kramer from Neighbors for Renewal and Rev. Doug Cripe from Metro-East Interfaith Partnership.

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January 6, 2007
Volunteers Help Provide 9,347 Meals to Those in Need.
With so many wonderful volunteers Faith Beyond Walls was able to help the Foodbank process 11,450 pounds of food that were able to provide 9,347 meals for the local community.  There were 24 volunteers representing 5 different faith groups.  Way to go volunteers thank you for your hard work!  Special thanks to Brett Moeller at the St. Louis Area Foodbank.

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