The Mute Swan Outreach Update

Health and healing-Right now our ministry prayer cards are at two of the Cleveland Clinic Hospitals in the Cleveland area and we hope to have them downtown this year. The cards are given to patients and their families, and health care providers --offering spiritual comfort and beauty during difficult times. At the end of the year we will expand our ministry Christmas baskets to about fifty or more baskets as part of the "Myriam Project" for a friend's mother who has cancer.  We also will be working with a beautiful young woman and school teacher, Francesca DiFiore, who helped out this year with a financial contribution and a special delivery of a basket. This year she will be an even bigger part of the project as we begin preparing the baskets in the fall, and she remembers her mother, Debbie DiFiore, who died from breast cancer.

Prison Ministry-We began the donation of Christmas cards and mother's day cards at the end of 2008, with a miraculous story of forgiveness working in my life and a letter from Sing Sing Prison on the same day. Padre Ron has been instrumental in getting those cards out to the prisoners to send home to their families. The project not only places God's beauty in a place devoid of beauty, but gives the prisoners an opportunity to write home to their loved ones touching hurting family members who suffer shame and loneliness when a loved one is incarcerated. This project will be expanded to a second prison Padre Ron ministers at in New York.

Religious Education-Retreats and workshops on discovering God's beauty in places of darkness of suffering is an important part of our outreach. Last November I gave a3 day retreat in Kentucky and I was truly the one blessed by the wonderful participants that attended. 2010 will include speaking in California, Kentucky, Ohio and (hopefully) Texas to religious communities, civic groups, schools, and retreat centers.Please check our web site if you are interested in a speaker for your next occasion. A stipend to the ministry is requested.

Prayers-This is perhaps the heart of this ministry. Thanks to Lynn's idea and expertise we began our prayer request site in 2009.We currently have 12 volunteers who prayer for the requests coming in.  If you have a prayer request let us know and you will be put on our prayer request site. If you can volunteer to pray daily for the requests please let us know. Gift cards along with a prayer card will also be available this year, to be sent out from our ministry in your name.

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Posted by Debra Classen at 1/8/2010 10:16 AM
Categories: Outreach
Tags: Mute Swan Ministries Outreach programs The Mute Swan
 

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