Methodist churches join for day of hope

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Updated: November 4, 2011 12:15PM

Christ United Methodist Church Deerfield has joined with North Shore Methodist Church in Glencoe, Glenview Methodist Church and Northbrook Methodist Church in an effort to make 9/11 a day of hope to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with a day of solemn remembrance and hope offering volunteer activities in our communities.

It will be an interfaith community missions day with projects to support social service agencies and other groups that help individuals in need. Volunteer activities include: cleaning of parks; clearing brush in the Lake County Forest Preserve; singing in a nursing home; cleaning and organizing local food pantries; collecting nonperishable food items for an Evanston battered women’s shelter; providing homemade goods for local police and fire departments; making Linus blankets for hospitalized children; fellowship through bingo and board games with residents of One Deerfield Place; cooking, cleaning, painting and making repairs at several facilities that serve the poor or homeless; joining together in a prayer group. For a list, visit www.tinyurl.com/9/11/2011.

Each participating church will have a 15-minute service starting at 10 a.m., and, for most projects, volunteers will then go to their work sites. Nursery care will be provided at most churches.

Sign up at www.tinyurl.com/9/11/2011; e-mail karenwhisler@sbcglobal.net or call CUMC at (847) 945-3040.