www.HopeandHelpCenter.org
Free Mammography Screening
at
St. Anthony of Padua Parish Hall
3133-35 Meramec St. 63118
on
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
9:30 am - 2:30 pm
FREE mammograms for women over 40 yrs.
For appointments call Barb Salmo at 314-655-0554. Additional information on attached flyer.
Also, it's not too late to get a FREE seasonal flu shot for those 18 yrs. and older.
Flu shots will be offered during mammography screening, thanks to a recent donation of vaccine
Monday, December 28, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
H1N1 Flu Virus Update
www.HopeandHelpCenter.org
“This flu season is different.”
The holiday season has arrived and families are busy preparing for their annual celebrations. It’s also the time when flu germs can spread. February is the peak of the flu season in Missouri.
The H1N1 flu vaccine is free and now available for everyone. Go get it now. The vaccine provides the best protection against the flu for you and your loved ones.
For questions about the flu and the vaccine to prevent it, call toll-free, 24 hours a day.
1-877-FLU-4141 or 1-877-358-4141
In addition to getting an H1N1 flu shot:
Wash your hands frequently with soap and water.
Cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue or the inside of your elbow, not your bare hands.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.
Stay home when you are sick, especially if you have a fever. Remain at home until 24 hours after your fever is gone without the use of fever-reducing medication.
Check with your local health department or go to
www.dhss.mo.gov/missouriflu/_provider_listing.html
to find a flu clinic near you.
Get the facts and get vaccinated.
A message from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and
your local health department.
“This flu season is different.”
The holiday season has arrived and families are busy preparing for their annual celebrations. It’s also the time when flu germs can spread. February is the peak of the flu season in Missouri.
The H1N1 flu vaccine is free and now available for everyone. Go get it now. The vaccine provides the best protection against the flu for you and your loved ones.
For questions about the flu and the vaccine to prevent it, call toll-free, 24 hours a day.
1-877-FLU-4141 or 1-877-358-4141
In addition to getting an H1N1 flu shot:
Wash your hands frequently with soap and water.
Cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue or the inside of your elbow, not your bare hands.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.
Stay home when you are sick, especially if you have a fever. Remain at home until 24 hours after your fever is gone without the use of fever-reducing medication.
Check with your local health department or go to
www.dhss.mo.gov/missouriflu/_provider_listing.html
to find a flu clinic near you.
Get the facts and get vaccinated.
A message from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services and
your local health department.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Breast Cancer Screening - JAN 6th
www.HopeandHelpCenter.org
Breast Cancer Screening
Wednesday January 6, 2010
9:00 am - 2:30 pm
St. Anthony of Padua Parish Hall
3133-35 Meramec St.
St. Louis, MO 63118
Free mammogram for all women over the age of 40 and Free grocery gift card!
To register call Barb Salmo at 314-655-0554
Breast Cancer Screening
Wednesday January 6, 2010
9:00 am - 2:30 pm
St. Anthony of Padua Parish Hall
3133-35 Meramec St.
St. Louis, MO 63118
Free mammogram for all women over the age of 40 and Free grocery gift card!
To register call Barb Salmo at 314-655-0554
Thursday, December 3, 2009
New Book Offers UNCOMMON HOPE In The Midst Of HIV/AIDS Pandemic
http://www.hopeandhelpcenter.org/
New Book Offers UNCOMMON HOPE In The Midst Of HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Yesterday at 10:05pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December1, 2009
“AIDS has never been about the body alone. It is a condition of the body, mind, and spirit. AIDS crosses the depths of despair, soars on clouds of uncommon hope, and sits in hushed silence while time passes and no cure is forthcoming,” says Joshua L. Love, a survivor of HIV/AIDS and drug addiction. His new book, Uncommon Hope , available on December 1, 2009 (World AIDS Day) is inspired by people whose lives are affected by HIV and AIDS. Love found a journey to healing through faith, which led him to his current position as director of the Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) Global HIV/AIDS Ministry and to oversee MCC's Drug and Addictions Literacy Program.
Love says, "Uncommon Hope unveils a strategy to end the silence and inaction by people of faith, in and out of organized religious communities, and other nonprofit agencies who feel called to partner in the work of bringing an end to HIV and AIDS. This step-by-step curriculum allows them to engage volunteers and employees in advocacy, public action, and social support of people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.
"We can do a lot to diminish the suffering of people living with HIV and AIDS and the unnecessary deaths caused by limited access to healthcare and support services. Local churches and faith-based organizations are often the support system of last resort for vulnerable people. We need to be equipped to act," says Love.
Rev. Dr. Donald E. Messer, author of Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence, said, "Metropolitan Community Churches was addressing the HIV and AIDS crisis before most other denominations were. While others were silent or condemning, MCC was on the forefront of offering Christ's inclusive love and compassion. Those of us in other denominations need to listen to and learn from MCC, as well as express our gratitude for their selfless ministry over the years."
Executive Director of the Center for Church and Global AIDS, Rev. Dr. Messer added, "In Joshua Love, MCC has an articulate and winsome spokesperson and leader. This superb curriculum, Uncommon Hope, will bless your life and your faith-based organizations and your communities in which they serve."
Joshua L. Love is a survivor of HIV and drug addiction, an activist in the Gay Men's Health Movement, and is committed to serving people where HIV/AIDS and addiction support services are unavailable or limited by extreme poverty and religious oppression. Love was published in IAPAC+, a publication of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (Spring 2007); produced a documentary entitled We Who Are One Body: A Spiritual Walk with AIDS; and presented at the American Sociological Association 2009 Annual Conference.
He is a clergy candidate with Metropolitan Community Churches and is completing his Master of Divinity at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2010, he will release a second book Deconstructing Meth, funded by the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Love travels the world to share a message of hope and spiritual renewal through preaching, workshops, and retreats.
About Metropolitan Community Church (MCC)
Metropolitan Community Church, founded in 1968, is a human-rights movement and ministry operating as a Christian denomination in 25 countries around the world. MCC has often been and continues to be one of few leading advocates for vulnerable people in places where religious orthodoxy, sexism, and homophobia can result in violence and death. MCC's promise is stated in its tagline "Tearing Down Walls. Building Up Hope."
For more information about MCC visit: http://www.mccchurch.org.
For more about MCC's Global HIV/AIDS Ministry visit: http://www.mccgham.org .
About Uncommon Hope
Uncommon Hope offers a dynamic, small-group curriculum designed to support people of faith in answering God's call to end the silence and inaction magnifying the human suffering and death wrought by HIV and AIDS. Whether your church or faith-based organization is just beginning to engage in HIV/AIDS ministry or has a long history in the work, Uncommon Hope provides tools and experiences to foster the development of spiritual responses that are authentic to your community, consistent with the core teachings of all major faith traditions, and respectful of the rich diversity reflected in the lives most impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Uncommon Hope is open to and inclusive of all people living with HIV and AIDS, whether they are infected in the body or affected as concerned and caring community members. The program is a progressive, multi-unit curriculum packaged in six chapters, each comprising a combination of educational tools, engaged learning, public action, and social support. Participants are afforded the opportunity to acquire new skills and insight at each stage of the process: Awareness, Truths, Radical Change, and Inspiration.
If you hunger to minister at the true intersection of justice, mercy, compassion and hope, then read the pages of Uncommon Hope.
Please contact 1-866-HOPE MCC (4673-622) or email franklincalvin@mccchurch.net to order your copy now!
Press Contact Or To Arrange Author Interviews:
Jim Birkitt
The Birkitt Communications Group
Los Angeles, California
Tel. (310) 272-3046
E-mail: JimBirkitt@aol.com
New Book Offers UNCOMMON HOPE In The Midst Of HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Yesterday at 10:05pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December1, 2009
“AIDS has never been about the body alone. It is a condition of the body, mind, and spirit. AIDS crosses the depths of despair, soars on clouds of uncommon hope, and sits in hushed silence while time passes and no cure is forthcoming,” says Joshua L. Love, a survivor of HIV/AIDS and drug addiction. His new book, Uncommon Hope , available on December 1, 2009 (World AIDS Day) is inspired by people whose lives are affected by HIV and AIDS. Love found a journey to healing through faith, which led him to his current position as director of the Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) Global HIV/AIDS Ministry and to oversee MCC's Drug and Addictions Literacy Program.
Love says, "Uncommon Hope unveils a strategy to end the silence and inaction by people of faith, in and out of organized religious communities, and other nonprofit agencies who feel called to partner in the work of bringing an end to HIV and AIDS. This step-by-step curriculum allows them to engage volunteers and employees in advocacy, public action, and social support of people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.
"We can do a lot to diminish the suffering of people living with HIV and AIDS and the unnecessary deaths caused by limited access to healthcare and support services. Local churches and faith-based organizations are often the support system of last resort for vulnerable people. We need to be equipped to act," says Love.
Rev. Dr. Donald E. Messer, author of Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence, said, "Metropolitan Community Churches was addressing the HIV and AIDS crisis before most other denominations were. While others were silent or condemning, MCC was on the forefront of offering Christ's inclusive love and compassion. Those of us in other denominations need to listen to and learn from MCC, as well as express our gratitude for their selfless ministry over the years."
Executive Director of the Center for Church and Global AIDS, Rev. Dr. Messer added, "In Joshua Love, MCC has an articulate and winsome spokesperson and leader. This superb curriculum, Uncommon Hope, will bless your life and your faith-based organizations and your communities in which they serve."
Joshua L. Love is a survivor of HIV and drug addiction, an activist in the Gay Men's Health Movement, and is committed to serving people where HIV/AIDS and addiction support services are unavailable or limited by extreme poverty and religious oppression. Love was published in IAPAC+, a publication of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (Spring 2007); produced a documentary entitled We Who Are One Body: A Spiritual Walk with AIDS; and presented at the American Sociological Association 2009 Annual Conference.
He is a clergy candidate with Metropolitan Community Churches and is completing his Master of Divinity at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2010, he will release a second book Deconstructing Meth, funded by the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Love travels the world to share a message of hope and spiritual renewal through preaching, workshops, and retreats.
About Metropolitan Community Church (MCC)
Metropolitan Community Church, founded in 1968, is a human-rights movement and ministry operating as a Christian denomination in 25 countries around the world. MCC has often been and continues to be one of few leading advocates for vulnerable people in places where religious orthodoxy, sexism, and homophobia can result in violence and death. MCC's promise is stated in its tagline "Tearing Down Walls. Building Up Hope."
For more information about MCC visit: http://www.mccchurch.org.
For more about MCC's Global HIV/AIDS Ministry visit: http://www.mccgham.org .
About Uncommon Hope
Uncommon Hope offers a dynamic, small-group curriculum designed to support people of faith in answering God's call to end the silence and inaction magnifying the human suffering and death wrought by HIV and AIDS. Whether your church or faith-based organization is just beginning to engage in HIV/AIDS ministry or has a long history in the work, Uncommon Hope provides tools and experiences to foster the development of spiritual responses that are authentic to your community, consistent with the core teachings of all major faith traditions, and respectful of the rich diversity reflected in the lives most impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Uncommon Hope is open to and inclusive of all people living with HIV and AIDS, whether they are infected in the body or affected as concerned and caring community members. The program is a progressive, multi-unit curriculum packaged in six chapters, each comprising a combination of educational tools, engaged learning, public action, and social support. Participants are afforded the opportunity to acquire new skills and insight at each stage of the process: Awareness, Truths, Radical Change, and Inspiration.
If you hunger to minister at the true intersection of justice, mercy, compassion and hope, then read the pages of Uncommon Hope.
Please contact 1-866-HOPE MCC (4673-622) or email franklincalvin@mccchurch.net to order your copy now!
Press Contact Or To Arrange Author Interviews:
Jim Birkitt
The Birkitt Communications Group
Los Angeles, California
Tel. (310) 272-3046
E-mail: JimBirkitt@aol.com
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Updated Resource Listings, St. John's Mercy Neighborhood Ministry
http://www.hopeandhelpcenter.org/
We would like to share with you our updated and new Resource Lists!
Dental Providers & Vision Assistance - 2 Completely Modified Lists
Domestic Violence Resources - Brand New List
Transportation Resources - Updated Again
Area Food Pantries - Phone # for All Nations Resources Center
Changed to - 314-869-6636
For additional health and social service resources, visit our website: www.stjohnsmercy.org/services/neighborhoodministry
We would like to share with you our updated and new Resource Lists!
Dental Providers & Vision Assistance - 2 Completely Modified Lists
Domestic Violence Resources - Brand New List
Transportation Resources - Updated Again
Area Food Pantries - Phone # for All Nations Resources Center
Changed to - 314-869-6636
For additional health and social service resources, visit our website: www.stjohnsmercy.org/services/neighborhoodministry
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