he Caring Committee of Temple of Israel is a group of Temple members who provide support, care and assistance to members experiencing illness, crisis or disability. We communicate this support via cards, phone calls, visits to home and nursing home and/or hospital. We also strive to provide food and transportation when needed.
For assistance, or to join this committee, please call the Temple Office.
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Full Belly Project – Many members help with this Wilmington based group, which battles global poverty, using a nut-shelling device for producing energy, peanuts and coffee. To learn more, visit www.fullbellyproject.org.
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To aid in the Food Collection for Good Shepherd Center, we maintain a collection box in our social hall for canned and dry goods, which we deliver to the Good Shepherd Center, a major food bank for Wilmington. Contact www.Goodshepherdcenter.org for more information, or call the Temple Office.
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Meals on Wheels is a community project, coordinated by the Senior Center of Wilmington. Temple volunteers prepare and deliver hot meals to elderly or disabled Wilmington residents one Sunday each month. This hot meal may be the only hot meal these people will have that day.
You will be provided with convenient route containing addresses and directions. You also will receive individual aluminum trays and covers to hold the hot foods you prepare.
The thanks you receive from the applicative people to whom you deliver will remind you that this is a Mitzvah.
If you are willing to prepare the food, deliver it or both, please contact the Temple Office.
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Project Mazon is a Jewish response to hunger. Mazon distributes funds to food programs in the United States and Israel. Temple of Israel solicits support for this cause on Yom Kippur and Passover. In addition, we encourage members to donate a small portion (3% recommended) of any large party they plan. To learn more, contact www.mazon.org.
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The Ladies Concordia Society (the sisterhood of Temple of Israel) partners with the American Association of University Women in a volunteer program titled, New Hanover County School Vision Screening Program. Vision Screening is part of the Schools’ Health O Rama and provides assistance to the School Nurses to screen approximately 6,000 students each year. Volunteers are trained and certified by the North Carolina Prevent Blindness organization. Men and women are encouraged by join this effort.
Contact the Temple office if you would like to participate in this program.
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