Just as your family needs to develop it’s own, individual safety plan, the faith community has come together to determine the tasks and responsibilities of how to meet the long-term needs in the event of a major disaster. As much as we would like to think we are all safe and secure from any major [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Appplebee’s Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser
April 30, 2009 – 11:09 am
Saturday, May 16, 2009 8:00-10:00am Join us for breakfast at Applebee’s on Saturday May 16 between 8am and 10 am. Just $5 gets you an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast with proceeds going to support ACCESS of West Michigan and the food pantry network of Kent County. Visit one of the following Applebees Restaurants: Grandville, East Beltline, [...]
ACCESS Teams Up With Culver’s Restaurant
April 28, 2009 – 11:00 am
Show your support for ACCESS and have a great meal at the same time! Join us Wednesday, April 29 from 5-8pm at any of the following Culver’s Restaurants: Culver’s on 54th Street in Wyoming Culver’s on 28th Street in Cascade Culver’s on Alpine in Comstock Park At least 10% of the evening’s proceeds will go [...]
Community Roundtables
April 27, 2009 – 8:58 am
Brian Paff writes about social issues for the Micah Center, a grassroots faith-based justice movement in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He recently attended the ACCESS SE Community Roundtable Meeting and writes about the experience. Click here to read his article.
ACCESS OSM can help your Benevolence Ministry be more than writing a check….
April 19, 2009 – 5:44 pm
ACCESS of West Michigan began over 25 years ago out of a need to have a central database to record those who had received help from congregations. The first official employee was a Caseworker, to coordinate and offer assistance to churches who were being asked for financial assistance. Now, many years later, we know that the need for this [...]
How to Best Work with OSM Caseworkers
April 3, 2009 – 3:15 pm
As I am putting together the information from the OSM Survey Monkey (thanks to all those who took the time to participate) I thought would comment on some of the confusion out there on how ACCESS Caseworkers can best work with Congregations. First of all, both caseworkers use voicemail and email to respond to inquiries. [...]