Knotty Ladies
The Knotty Ladies meet every Wednesday morning at the church from 10 AM - 12 PM to tie knots in comforters. The comforters are sent to Mennonite Central Committee and eventually sent to refugees around the world. No skill required, except tying knots. All are welcome.
Contact: Beth Landis
Suppers for Several
These are groups we try to form 2-3x a year to provide opportunity for folks to get together to share a meal and fellowship. We will have a sign up if you are interested. We try to rotate people to have occasions to get to know different folks. It is suggested that you could rotate meeting in different peoples homes, and the host provides the main dish. It would also be an option to meet at a Park, ski lodge...
Each family brings something to contribute to the meal. We try to keep the groups small to fit in peoples homes. Each group will determine meeting day/time that works best.
Contact: Meribeth Mathews
Rake Up Boise is an annual event. We gather as a team and rake up our church, and then 2-3 houses belonging to either the elderly or physically incapable people, that the city deems are in need. It’s a fun way to get together and help others. All ages are welcome to join us. This usually occurs mid November.
Contact: Lee Honsinger
Rake Up Boise
Trustees
As trustees we meet a couple times a year to discuss beer and power tools and projects we might want to work on during the year. Then we meet again to discuss the same things with different beer and better power tools. And once in awhile we actually do we we’re supposed to do: We are responsible for maintenance of the church building and grounds.
Contact: Lee Honsinger
Congre-gational
Care
This committee’s job is to provide support to families and individuals through creating sign ups for meals following a birth, adoption, surgery, or accident. Or if someone in the congregation is in need of transportation to and from a meeting or church over an extended period of time, we set up sign-ups. We also send flowers to families and individuals in memory of loved ones that have passed away.
Contacts: Paula Bachman and John Wargo
The nursery provides a space for children from birth to age 5 to engage in free play and enriching activities during Sunday worship services. Children are welcome to attend by themselves or with a loved one.
Currently using the Pray-Ground at front of sanctuary.
Nursery
Friendship
Dinner
On the fifth Thursday of a month, HPMF hosts a friendship dinner for those in need of meals. The dinner is held at the First Presbyterian Church, located on the corner of 9th and State streets. The entrance to the dinner is from 9th Street. We need approximately 10 to 12 volunteers. The volunteers arrive by 5:15, serve dinner and leave by 7:00 pm. Volunteers set the tables, help prepare and serve the dinner and help clean up. It is a great way to meet people from the congregation and to feed those in need. Please come and join us and help feed those in need.
Contact: John and Sandy Wargo
Hyde Park Mennonite gathers at Ida Haven Camp in McCall for three days of fun and fellowship over the weekend following Presidents Day in February. All meals are provided and lodging is dormitory style. One highlight of the weekend is the Saturday Night talent show. There is plenty of unstructured time to play in the snow as well as indoor games.
Contact: Elen Hunt
Winter Camp
Our purpose and activity is to provide support for our church relationship to Albinos in Tanzania through Albino Peacemakers, a Tanzanian nonprofit. We seek to build relationships with the albino population in Tanzania and to offer some financial support. This is an ad hoc group that does not meet regularly. Those who are currently recently have been involved as volunteers are Pat Casey, Jill Chrisman, Deb Max, Janet Buschert, Rick Skinner, and others.
Contact: any of the above named volunteers
Tanzania Albinos Assist.
Mennonite Central Committee is a 100 year old service organization that collaborates with many similar denominations in the US and Canada. They partner with local agencies in more than 60 countries around the world to empower others in areas of disaster relief, development and peacebuilding. The funding is provided by individuals, thrift stores, sales, and festivals where many people from different backgrounds come together to raise money for MCC.
HPMF has contributed to MCC with school kits, hygiene kits, disaster kits, comforters for refugees, support for persons with albinism in Tanzania, and tree farming in Zambia. We offer our time and gifts to the annual Festival for World relief in Nampa and participation in week long bike rides in the Pacific Northwest to raise money and awareness for MCC. Each Sunday, the children collect change for a My Coins Count offering for MCC.
Mennonite Central Comm. (MCC)
Everence is a national, faith based financial services organization for Mennonite/Anabaptist congregations. It is a nonprofit, a “fraternal,” so they do things differently than banks and credit unions. A fraternal means that they calculate how much to pay in taxes, then give it away which they do in partnerships with congregations. HPMF has received $20,000 in seven years for HPMF attendees and community organizations.
Your values, your faith, and your priorities are what determines your finances and lifestyle. Everence provides services to meet those with free financial counseling, retirement planning, college planning, investing with social justice guidelines, loans with “green rates”, Medicare supplement plans, disability insurance, education on their website, webinars, and many more options.
The value in Everence is partly what they do for you, in terms of services and making sure all your money is in line with peace and justice issues. The other value is that Everence also helps our community as we receive benefits from grants when people in our congregation participate in Everence. https://www.everence.com
Contact: Beth Landis
Everence
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is a volunteer network of Anabaptist churches dedicated to responding in Christian love to those affected by natural and man-made disasters in Canada and the United States. While the main focus is on clean up, repair and rebuilding homes, this service touches lives and nurtures hope, faith and wholeness.
MDS is organized by units, regions and Bi-National leadership. It is a grass roots organization. This means that disasters are first responded to at the unit level and only when the disaster response requires more resources than are available at the unit level does the response move up to the unit and then Bi-National level.
Currently HPMF members are active in Unit Leadership and in volunteering to various disaster responses. Tim Yoder is the HPMF Church Contact Person, Ernie Bachman is the Idaho Unit vice-chair, Robert and Sally Unrau frequently volunteer as Project Leaders on BI-National projects.
Contact: Robert Unrau, MDS-Idaho Unit Chair
Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS)
Our purpose and activity is to provide volunteer and financial support for Corpus Christi House, a local day shelter to assist homeless persons started in part through the efforts of our church. This is an ad hoc group that does not meet regularly. Those who are currently involved as volunteers are Paul Hatab, Chad Summervill, Barack Anderson, David Matthews, John Vance, Rick Skinner and others.
Contact: any of the above volunteers