Monthly Missions

Each month, New Covenant Lutheran Church focuses on an outreach to help those in need locally or around the world.  Listed below are the current and upcoming Monthly Missions along with updates from our completed Monthly Missions.

Current Mission

April 2024

New Covenant Lutheran Church along with the School has reserved 50 spots for a packing session on Saturday, Apr. 6th from 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m at Feed My Starving Children.

We are also collecting monetary donations for FMSC during the month of April. Our goal is to raise $2,000 to provide a pallet of food to feed 22 children for 1 year.

Registration for the April 6th Packing Session is closed.

Upcoming Missions

May 2024

TBD

June 2024

Heat Respite Program at Grace Lutheran Church

Completed Missions

Lent 2024 (Feb/Mar)

For Lent 2024, New Covenant Lutheran Church will once again be supporting the Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest (LSS-SW) Baby Shower. LSS-SW holds an annual baby shower for new and expecting mothers that they support. This year we will be collecting baby toiletries for 60 babies. Below is the list of full size toiletries that we are collecting.

January 2024

For the month of January, we will be fundraising for The Duarte Family. Alex Duarte, our Worship & Student Ministries Director, is having open heart surgery in January. To help the family while Alex recovers, we are collecting monetary donations to help with any of those unexpected expenses.

Update: Thank you for donating to The Duarte Family fund. With your generosity, we raised $6,250 for the Duarte family. Thank You!

December 2023

Our December Monthly Mission is a Christmas Angel Tree to support 5 families with 15 children through the Vista del Camino Center and 5 seniors through Scottsdale’s Senior Centers.

Update: Thank you for making our Christmas Angel Tree a success in 2023. We collected gifts for the children and seniors plus monetary donations for gifts and grocery gift cards. Each child was given toys and clothes from their list. The seniors received gifts from their list.

We also blessed 87 quilts made by the two quilting groups led by Pat Andrews. 26 quilts were given to the children, parents and seniors adopted by New Covenant Lutheran Church, 17 quilts went to Project Linus Phoenix, East Valley Chapter, 15 quilts were given to Hushabye Nursery and 17 quilts were given to Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest for seniors. 12 quilts were kept back for 2024.

November 2023

New Covenant Lutheran Church is collecting food and monetary donations for Thanksgiving Food Boxes to give to families in the Scottsdale community. We are supporting 5 families with 15 children through the Vista del Camino Center and 5 seniors through Scottsdale’s Senior Centers this Thanksgiving.

You can drop off your items at church on Sunday or make a monetary donation and we’ll do the shopping for you.

Monetary donations are needed to provide each family and each senior with a grocery store gift card to purchase meat and fresh items for Thanksgiving. Any extra money will be used to purchase food items needed to complete a Food Box or used for the Christmas Angel Tree since we will be supporting the same families and seniors.

Update: Your generosity helped provide each of our 5 seniors with a $35 grocery gift card and provide each of our 5 families with a food box and $50 grocery gift card. Thank You!

October 2023

We’ll be starting our Christmas shopping early this year with our October Monthly Mission. We are collecting NEW Queen size blankets for seniors supported by Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest (LSS-SW). LSS-SW will be giving these blankets to their seniors as part of their Christmas gift. Our goal is to collect 40 blankets.

Update: Thank you for your generosity for our Oct. Monthly Mission. We had a goal of 40 queen size blankets and a total of 69 queen size blankets and 7 throws were delivered to LSS-SW. You have made Christmas special for the Seniors supported by LSS-SW.

September 2023

New Covenant Lutheran Church will be collecting donations for Casa de la Miseracordia run by Sister Lika and supported by Adele Resmer, retired pastor of New Journey Lutheran Church, Fountain Hills.

Casa de la Miseracordia is a shelter in Nogales, Mexico that provides shelter, safety and community for women, children and men who are waiting to seek asylum in the U.S. Sister Lika sees that everyone is included in the care of the property, inside and out. Families cook meals each day, while men provide security around the property. Still, others clean the facilities and tend the grounds. Children assist the adults in growing food in the gardens. Women and young people weave, sew and watch over the youngest children. Sister Lika coordinates with the Ministries of Education and Health to oversee the teachers, nurses and doctors who minister to the residents of the shelter. There is a constant need for food and supplies to sustain the families. This is a profound and meaningful ministry that we are in a position to support. The Grand Canyon Synod helps support this mission through a program known as Cruzando Fronteras.

Update: Thank you for your generous support for Casa de la Miseracordia. You donated 599 lbs of Rice, Beans and Flour along with $283 which Adele Resmer will use to purchase additional supplies in Mexico.

August 2023

In August, New Covenant Lutheran Church will be working with the Northeast Valley Consortium of Lutheran Churches to make Celebration Bags for Foster Children & Families at Lutheran Social Services of the SW. Our goal is to supply 30 bags for children between the age of 5 yrs. old to 18 yrs. old. 15 for the younger children (5-9 yrs. old) and 15 for the older children (10-18 yrs. old). We will supply a drawstring bag to put $10-20 worth of items. Following is a list of suggested items:

• Fun journal or activity books or coloring book
• Writing tools – pens, pencils, markers, crayons, colored pencils, pencil sharpener, highlighters, etc.
• Candy
• Hair accessories or other hygiene accessories
• Matchbox cars or other small toy
• Chap stick
• Stickers
• $5-$10 gift card (Starbucks, Target, etc.)
• Card games
• Stuffed animal

Update: Thank you for your generosity in support of Foster Children and Families at LSS-SW. With the donations that you dropped off and the $800 in monetary donations, we were able to provide 42 celebration bags to LSS-SW. These bags included a lot of fun things for the children to use and play with.

July 2023

For the month of July, we will be collecting canned soup and ground coffee for the Paradise Valley Community Food Bank.

Update: Thanks for your donations of soup, coffee and monetary donations for our July Monthly Mission. We donated 166 cans of soup, 74 lbs of coffee, some Ramen Noodles and misc. cans of vegetables for the Paradise Valley Community Food Bank. THANK YOU!

June 2023

For the month of June, New Covenant Lutheran Church will be collecting toilet paper and toothpaste for the Vista del Camino Food Bank in Scottsdale.

Update: A big THANK YOU to all the donated for our June Monthly Mission. We collected over 300 rolls of Toilet Paper (too many to count), 46 rolls of Paper Towels, a package of napkins and 276 tubes of Toothpaste. Vista del Camino Food Bank was very grateful for our donations since these are items that are not donated regularly. We also collected $255 for the food bank.

April/May 2023

New Covenant Lutheran Church will be collecting monetary donations for the Grand Canyon Synod’s Growing Generosity Appeal.  New Covenant Lutheran Church has committed to raise $2,500 to help plant seeds for Lutheran Campus Ministry and new & emerging ministries. 

Campus ministry provides a Lutheran presence on college campuses.  Approximately one-third of those participating in campus ministry have never been part of a Lutheran church. Campus ministry provides an invaluable opportunity to reach young people who are yearning for connection and meaning.

With demographics changing and people in our synod becoming younger and more diverse, we must shape our ministries to be meaningful to this wider audience. Emerging ministries involve efforts to meet these changing needs. Funds raised for emerging ministries will provide additional seed money to support these ministries as they grow and prosper, especially as we emerge from the pandemic.

Update: Thank you to all that have donated to the Grand Canyon Synod’s Growing Generosity Appeal. This year we collected $1,888 for the appeal. Combined with our 2022 giving, we collected a total of $3,100 for the Grand Canyon Synod.