Connecting Outward: Helping Others in Our Community
Opportunities to HelpRLC Blessing BoxDonate Food for Our Blessing Box:
We are going through a lot of food through our outside blessing box. Food items we are collecting this month: canned veggies, sandwich crackers, tuna, protein bars and canned fruit. Our Monthly Theme: Our April theme is: Planting seeds of home, one item at a time. Bible Verse: John 6:35 Jesus declared, I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me hungry will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me, will never be thirsty. Volunteer to Help Keep the Blessing Box Filled Another way you can help is to volunteer to fill the Blessing Box one day a week for one month. We have volunteers for April but we need volunteers for May. Contact Lori B to sign up. Filling Jacob's Ladder Food Pantry
Jacob’s Cupboard has been going through food quickly, and could use a good restocking.
We collect food at RLC to give to them to help them minister to those in need in our community. Please bring in non-perishable food to RLC, if you are able. Community Market Days:
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2026 Community Outreach ScheduleJANUARY-Collecting warm coats and blankets: a gift of warmth
FEBRUARY-Souper Bowl Sunday: A gift of food for the hungry
-Yukon Chocolate Festival: A gift of hot chocolate MARCH-Souper Bowl Sunday: A gift of food for the hungry
APRIL
- Community Market Day: April 11, 8am-noon
MAY-Festival of the Child: A gift of joy
-Community Market Day: May 9, 8am-noon JUNE-Community Market Day, 8am-noon
-Vacation Bible School: A gift of fellowship and fun for children -Infant Crisis Center Collections: A gift of diapers for babies in need JULY-Community Market Day, 8am-noon
AUGUST-Community Market Day, 8am-noon
-Community-wide back to school backpack program: A gift of school supplies and backpacks for families who need help SEPTEMBER-Community Market Day, 8am-noon
-Jacob's Ladder food collection: A gift of food for the hungry OCTOBER-RLC Fall Bazaar: Oct 24, 8am-3pm
-Czech Fest Booth -Lutheran Churches Food Drive: a gift of food for the hungry -Trick or Treat for Jacob's Cupboard: a gift of food for the hungry NOVEMBER-Angel Tree: Take an angel from the tree and provide one or more gifts. You can also share the request with others.
-Santa's Toy Shop: An easy way to help children in our community. A Christmas gift shows we care. DECEMBER-Homemade cookies for Shut-ins: A gift of friendship and love
-Living Nativity, a gift to the community For more information, please contact Byrona Maule. Or email the church at: [email protected]. |
2025 RLC Community Service Photos and Updates
Fall Food Drive
On our Trick or Treat Food Drive, we collected 201.40 pounds of food from the community. We challenged the congregation to collect at least 210 pounds of food for Jacob’s Cupboard and for our Blessing Box. We collected over 250 lbs of food!
Czech Fest Table, Oct 2025Members of our Cub Scout troop joined us at our RLC table this year. We had lots of goodies to hand out and we shared information about our upcoming 60th Anniversary Fall festival on October 19.
The Francel-Gigstad family (also long-time members of RLC) are a major part of the Czech Festival every year, and the Czech community in Yukon.
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Results for RLC Super Bowl 2025Kansas City Chiefs: $138.00 towards Light up the Darkness
And 43.26lbs of food. Philadelphia Eagles: $44 towards Light up the Darkness And 82.57lbs of food. The winners are our neighbors in need! Thank you to all who participated! Great job! |
2024 RLC Community Service Photos and Updates
Souper Bowl Day of Caring, Feb
Kansas City – 51.5 lbs food + $131 in cash = 182.5 total
San Francisco – 11.5 lbs food + $7 in cash = 18.5 total
San Francisco – 11.5 lbs food + $7 in cash = 18.5 total
2023 RLC Community Service Pictures
Supporting Kommunity KindnessThere is a $1000 match challenge
Kommunity Kindness is a ministry based in Yukon which focuses on supporting families affected by Mental Illness. The aims are to provide support groups, advocate for legislation and move toward providing transportation and temporary housing. Right now, they have a $1000 matching challenge. If you want to help them get that matching money, you can write a check to Kommunity Kindness, or you can donate to RLC and put in the memo “Kommunity Kindness.” Thanks! Bedlam Food Drive, Oct 8-29Members supported Team Crimson or Team Orange by donating non-perishable food items or money. The food we collected went to RLC’S Blessing Box and Jacob’s Cupboard. The money we collected went go to the Manna Pantry.
8th Annual School Supply Drive, Aug 5
Thank you to the group of RLC folks who helped with the School Supply Drive in Yukon--either in collecting items at RLC or at the event itself. The program was a great success.
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Vacation Bible School Infant Crisis Center Collections, June 2023We supported the OKC Infant Crisis Center. We collected diapers of all sizes, wipes, other baby supplies, as well as $314 in cash donations. RLC received a lovely thank you from the group:
Yukon Chocolate Festival, Feb 2023
Our RLC table at the Yukon Chocolate Festival, Feb 2023. Marvin, Penny and Byrona greeted people who came to our table.
The church made up 400 baggies of hot chocolate mix to hand out and included a prayer with each. We gave out 360 baggies in two hours. We also served cups of hot chocolate, which was very popular.
Super Bowl Food Collection for Jacob's CupboardRLC SOUPER BOWL SUNDAY RESULTS
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES: Cash for Light Up The Darkness $81.00 Food items for Jacob’s Cupboard 43 Total 124 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS : Cash for Light Up The Darkness $523.00 Food items 164 Total 687 The true winners are our Brothers and Sisters in Christ! Thank you for all your contributions!! 
Food going to Jacob's Cupboard in downtown Yukon.
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2022 RLC Community Service Pictures
School Backpack Community Drive Was a Big Success
Several members of RLC helped with the community-wide backpack drive including Byrona, Carrie, Joe, Georgia and Esperanza. Lori B helped collect school supplies.
Flags at Freedom Fest
May God's Face Shine Upon You!
RLC Freedom Fest volunteers from RLC handed out free flags. Marvin is not pictured because he took the photo.
2021 RLC Community Service Pictures
We now Have a Book Sharing Box (Focus on Youth Books) and a Food Box at RLC to Serve Our CommunityTwo members of RLC who are also Boy Scouts chose RLC and the surrounding community for their Eagle Scout projects in 2021. Our most recent addition (Dec) is a book sharing box on our property. The focus is sharing books for young people in the surrounding area.
In June 2021, our first box was installed: a food sharing box, where people who need food can select items from the box. Donated food items are always appreciated. Food Donations from Trick or Treat for Manna Pantry and Bedlam Food Drive, Oct and Nov 2021June Parking Lot Blood Drive a Success
We had 13 people donate blood. The Blood Bank was very pleased as the need has been significantly higher, partly due to Covid. Thank you for supporting our community!
Yukon Community Clean-up Day, JuneSouper Bowl Sunday Results, Feb
With Covid and many attending church online, we were pleased with our Souper Bowl Sunday results.
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Living Nativity, Dec 2021
Christmas Caroling at Senior Home and Homes of Shut-ins, Dec 2021June Manna Pantry Food Drive Results
Flowers for Residents of Gran Grans in Yukon, May
Happy Spring!!
This morning I had the pleasure of delivering "Happy Spring" blessings to Gran Gran's Place on behalf of Resurrection Lutheran Church for our May Community Outreach. We gave them five dozen roses--red and white roses for each of the 42 residents as well as 18 mixed-colored roses for the front desk. Each resident also received a new box of 48 Crayons and a lovely coloring sheet with a Bible verse. Each month going forward, we will deliver another Bible verse coloring sheet for the residents. Please pray that these gifts will lift their spirits and remind them that they're a beloved part of our community and not forgotten. If you'd like to help with the cost of these gifts and future community blessings please add a little to your regular giving and specify the amount to be posted to OUTREACH. BLESSINGS ON YOUR DAY! Katherine Dawson, Vice President of Outreach |
