Giving, Caring, Sharing... Showing God's Love to Those in Need.
How Can You do Your Part to Help?
When we are young, we are taught by our parents, grandparents, teachers, and the church to share our toys, help our peers, and care for others.Have you ever seen young children instinctively hug another when they are hurt or sad? It is quite emotional when we can teach our children about compassion and then see it at work.
As we grow older, it seems as if those positive things we were taught, somehow disappear. We have become the "me" society. "What can this, that or they do for me?"
When I talk to people, everyone, to a degree, would help others if they could. I believe we all can in some capacity. Some people are financially secure and could offer money as a resource. Some people could offer their time and energy behind the scenes while others may want to be a part of helping someone face to face. Whatever category you fall into, it is priceless to those in need.
As Christians, we are told to "become like little children". The bible says,
"... I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven."
(Matthew 18: 3-4)
What are your talents and how can you share them with others?
Below you will find many organizations, groups, and simple projects that would be grateful for your support.
Please consider going back to the “beginning”
when hugging someone in need
was the norm.
"The King will reply, I tell you the truth, whatever you did
for one of the least of these brothers of mine,
you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40)
May God bless you as you bless Him!
Kelly and Mike Lavallee
MyFortMill.com encourages individuals and churches to be a part of God's Plan.
Visit Mission: Fort Mill.com to partner in changing the hearts of Fort Mill.
"From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament,
grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work." (Ephesians 4:16)
playing for change ~ 'Song around the world. Stand by me'
►Fort Mill Care Center • 513 Banks St. • Fort Mill, SC 29715 • Food and assistance for medicine and utilities
• Open Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 9AM - Noon*** • Phone (803) 547-7620 • Fax (803) 547-7850 • web site •The Care Center is currently collecting CANNED GOODS.
***MyFortMill.com has partnered with Lifepointe Christian Church. Lifepointe now serves the community as a DROP OFF location for the Fort Mill Care Center. You may drop off items Monday through Friday, 9AM-3PM at LifePointe Church's Community Center.
It is located at 2266 Deerfield Drive, Fort Mill, SC 29715. (Next to the Charlotte Knights' Baseball Stadium.) How Can You Help the Fort Mill Care Center? 1.
You can donate food, baby wipes and diapers, cleaning/laundry products... (Donations are taken M-W-F, 9AM-Noon.)
2. You can donate monetarily. Donation forms can be downloaded here. Credit card donations can be made on their web site.
3. You can donate your time by helping sort or bag food, or helping check in/interview clients. This provides a great opportunity to teach children, hands-on, the meaning of helping!
► Angel Food Ministries • Open to the Public
• Non-profit, non-denominational organization dedicated to providing food relief / financial support to communities throughout the US.
•web site
Angel Food Ministries Local Sites: Flint Hill Baptist Church: Skip & Sue Liles: (803) 367-2178 • web site United Community Development Foundation: Ruby Watts • (803) 547-6646
► Boys & Girls Club of York County - Banks St. Club• 513 Banks St. • Fort Mill, SC 29715 • After school youth development programs (2:30-6:30PM) • Monday-Friday (Summer Camp 7AM-6PM)
• Phone (803) 547-1978 • web site How Can You Help the Boys & Girls Club? 1. Educational/Career: Help children with their math, spelling, reading, writing, and other skills during our Power Hour (homework help) program.
Help teens in higher-level coursework such as Algebra, Geometry, Biology, Chemistry, etc.
Reading Mentor – read one-on-one with a child, read a favorite children’s story to a group.
Assist us in career education. Give a talk and do a Q&A session about your career, or educate the children on job search skills like resume writing or interviewing. 2. Sports/Recreation: If you are an expert in a particular sport, consider teaching the fundamental skills, rules, and strategies to the children, AND/OR run a league or tournament.
Spend some time playing board games, video games, pool, ping-pong, foosball, etc. with the kids.
Introduce a new activity, game, or skill, such as martial arts, fitness training, or model making. 3.
The Arts: Offer choral or instrument lessons.
Run a drama workshop or direct the children in a play.
Lead workshops or activities in areas like photography, dance, architecture, sewing, painting, drawing, or culinary arts.
Implement fun and engaging arts & crafts projects, perhaps for a particular season or holiday. 4.
Technology Mentor: Help children create web pages, make videos, compose music, conduct web searches, learn Photoshop, do graphic design, and more. Also needed are individuals who can assist with routine computer maintenance. 5.
Health and Life Skills: Instruct on basic cooking skills, such as kitchen safety, meal preparation, and proper nutrition.
Volunteer to provide and/or prepare a balanced and healthy Kids Café hot meal for the Club.
Teach teens how to balance a checkbook and manage their finances.
Recount a life experience that teaches a life lesson. 6.
Character and Leadership: Design and implement a community service project with the children.
Lead a workshop on public speaking.
►Flint Hill Baptist Church Clothes Closet • Open to the Public • 269 Flint Hill Rd. • Fort Mill, SC 29715
• Donations gladly accepted! To donate: Please call the church from 8AM-Noon to make an appointment for donation drop off.
• Clothes closet is open to the general public. You do not need a referral from an agency.
• Hours of Operation: Please call for schedule.
• Phone (803) 548-0672
►Mission: Fort Mill •FORT MILL SERVICE OPPORTUNITY: web site
As a part of our mission to cooperatively work together to fulfill the Great Commission
in our community by serving it, we will, from time to time make you aware of service opportunities.Christ Central Serving Meals Ministry (CCSMM) is a ministry committed to sharing the love of Christ
with some of the neediest in Fort Mill by cooking and serving a hot meal to as many as 150 people EVERY SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
CCSMM has been serving in the Paradise Community for a long time now, but has recently begun serving in the Riverview Elementary area of town as well. There are a number of opportunities to cook or serve.
We truly believe that God is at work here in Fort Mill, and we earnestly pray that we would respond to His leading.
Visit our web site for more information or email.
► Pilgrim's Inn • 236 West Main St., PO Box 11328 • Rock Hill, SC 29731 • Transitional Housing: Low income or no income families live in one of our ten apartments for up to 24 months.
Residents must be working or going to school.
• Child Support Center: Our child support center, Open Arms, provides a safe, nurturing environment for low-income children who have been in a crisis.
• Dorothy Bing Inn Homeless Shelter: This facility houses homeless mothers and their children. We help these families contact community resources for housing, employment, child care, schooling, and financial assistance.
• Phone: (803) 327-4227 • Fax: (803) 324-4007 • web site How Can You Help the Pilgrim's Inn?
A few suggestions are Tutoring, Mentoring, Cleaning, Transportation, Office Support, Maintenance and Entertainment.
Bring a friend
or family member, and take a few hours to help make somebody's life better.
Call Judy Gritzmacher at (803) 327-4227 to get involved!
► Sisk Memorial Clothes Closet • Closet is located at 118 Spratt St. • Fort Mill, SC • 29715 • The Clothes Closet is open on the second and fourth Thursday each month and the third Saturday from 9:30AM-12:30PM.
• Phone (803) 547-2537 • web site • directions How Can You Help the Sisk Memorial Clothes Closet?
You can volunteer during open hours to organize clothes.
►Teen Health Center• 725 Cherry Road, Suite 140,
PO Box 3144,
Rock Hill, SC 29732
• Providing affordable, accessible, comprehensive and preventive services to meet the physical
and mental health needs of adolescents ages 11-18 in York County. To serve as a health education and advocacy
resource to teens, their families and the community • Phone: (803) 366-9119 •
Fax: (803) 366-9389 • web site
►CRISIS WEB SITES & PHONE NUMBERS: • Christian Family Services (Licensed Child Placing Facility in SC): web site • Crisis Help: web site
• Keystone Prevention Center: (803) 324-4118 • web site
• National Suicide Prevention Hotline:
(800) 273-8255 • (800) 784-2433 •
web site • web site • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): Teen Page web site
• Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network:web site
► YORK COUNTY, SC SOUP KITCHEN LOCATIONS: Dorothy Day, Rock Hill:
(803) 366-4142
God’s Kitchen,
Clover: (803)
222-0711
Grace and Mercy Soup Kitchen,
York:
(803) 628-1660
Oakdale Baptist,
Rock Hill:
(803) 327-8405
► FOOD PROGRAMS: • Back the Pack Program:more info • Serving Meals Ministry: Mary Baker (803) 230-4009 • YC Summer Feeding Program:web site
► EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATIONAL WEB SITES: • AARP Foundation:Could earn $400 per month in the senior citizen community service employment program, age 55+: Contact Jean Hudson, 334 E Main St, Rock Hill, SC
• Carolina Community Action: Job training and employment, will pay employees to train on the job). Non-traditional employment for women, carpentry, fireman, traffic control. 703 Saluda St, Rock Hill, SC • Bill assistance: (803) 366-5537. Phone: (803) 329-5195. • Career Builder: web site • Charlotte in Transition Support:web site
• Charlotte Hires:web site • College Bound: web site
• Community Culinary School of Charlotte:web site • Craiglist Job Listings:web site
• Department of Labor:web site • Educational Opportunities: web site • York County Community
College • Employment Guide:web site • Family Independence Center, South Carolina Dept of Social Services:web site • Goodwill Job Training and Placement:web site • Groovejob, Part-time job for students/teens: web site • Idea List: web site • Indeed, One Search, All Jobs: web site • Job Serve:web site
• Joblink Center: web site • Monster Jobs: web site • Roadmap for College Admissions Success: web site • Rock Hill, York County Job Listings:web site • SC Job Market:web site • SC Lottery Tuition Assistance:web site
• SC e-Recruitment System: web site
• SC Employment Security Commission:web site • SC Employment Commission: Employment assistance and counseling, 1228 Fincher Rd, Rock Hill, SC (803) 328-3831 • Scholarship Employment Training Opportunity: web site Fort Mill,SC • SCORE: Counselors to America's Small Businesses: web site • Simply Hired: web site • Snag a Job: web site • Vocational Rehabilitation Workshop: Evaluates and provides work experience and job placement for people with physical, mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. 1020 Heckle Blvd, Rock Hill, SC. By appointment, (803) 327-7106. • York County Christian Men's Job Corp:web site
• York County Christian Women's Job Corp:web site • Youth Job Connection: web site • York Tech College: Workforce Development: web site
► MEDICAL, DENTAL, INSURANCE WEB SITES:
• 24/7 Info HELP line. Dial 211 or 1 (866) 892-9211. web site • Aid Page:web site
• Care Net: Offers hope to women facing unplanned pregnancies by providing practical help and emotional support • web site • Catawba Area Agency on Aging:web site • Catawba Care:web site • Catawba Care Coalition:newsletter
• Check Yourself (A place for teens to check out where they are with drugs and alcohol): web site • Clover Area Assistance:web site • Colgate Program:web site • Eye Exam & Glasses: Fort Mill Lions Club. (803) 548-8124 • Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health of SC: web site
• FREE Medical and Dental Camp Clinics: web site •
FREE Medical Clinic: Palmetto Volunteers in Medicine. 235 Herlong Ave, Rock Hill • (803) 366-6337 • FREE Medical Clinic: Non-Insured ONLY web site
• Hands on Health,SC: web site
• Inclusive Health (Insuring individuals with medical conditions): web site • Insurance for the Uninsured: web site • Interfaith Hospitality Network:web site
• National Alliance on Mental Illness: York, Lancaster & Chester Counties: web site (800) 788-5131
• Needy Meds (Find help with the cost of medicine)web site • Palmetto Pregnancy Center: Rock Hill • web site • Partnership for a Drug Free America:web site • Partnership for Prescription Assistance: web site or (888) 477-2669 • Patient Advocate Foundation:web site • Patient Assistance:web site
• Prescription Drug Assistance: 1-866-706-2400 or web site • Preventing Child Drug/Alcohol Abuse:web site • Rx Hope:web site • Safe Passage:web site
• SC Drug Card Program:web site
• SC Health Insurance Risk Pool (Blue Cross Blue Shield):(800) 868-2500, ext 46401
• SC Health Insurance Pool:(800) 868-2500• web site • SC Free Clinic Association: web site • Stop Medicine Abuse:web site
• Treatment Centers: web site
• York County Adult Day Care:web site • York County Crisis Pregnancy Center: PO Box 4302/329, Charlotte Ave.,
Rock Hill, SC, 29730
• (803) 329-2524 • York County Treatment Center: 377 Carowinds Blvd., Fort Mill, SC (803) 547-7238
► HUMANITARIAN WEB SITES: • Housing Authority of Fort Mill:web site
• Open Gate Ministry:web site • Parenting Program: web site • Samaritan's Feet: web site • Samaritan's Purse:web site • South Carolina Access to Justice:web site • South Carolina 2-1-1:web site • Tega Cay Neighbors Helping Neighbors: web site
• Tega Cay Lion's Club:web site • United Way of York County: web site • United Way of York County Project Connect: web site • United Way Community Efforts Report:pdf file • York County Habitat for Humanity:web site • York County Crisis Pregnancy Center: PO Box 4302/329, Charlotte Ave.,
Rock Hill, SC, 29730
• (803) 329-2524
► WAYS TO SAVE MONEY: • FREE Computer/Internet Use, DVD’s, Videos:web site • Charlotte Area Yahoo Coupon Exchange Group:web site • CouponShack.com: web site
• Craigslist: web site • Gas Price Search:web site
► HUMANITARIAN WEB SITES: