OLMC - Service

If you want to volunteer, you're in the right place.

And the next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember...

Noah was a drunk
Abraham was too old
Isaac was a daydreamer
Jacob was a liar
Leah was ugly
Joseph was abused
Moses had a stuttering problem
Gideon was afraid
Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer
Rahab was a prostitute
Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
David had an affair and was a murderer
Elijah was suicidal

Isaiah preached naked
Jonah ran from God
Naomi was a widow
Job went bankrupt
John the Baptist ate bugs
Peter denied Christ
The Disciples fell asleep while praying
Martha worried about everything
The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once
Zaccheus was too small
Paul was too religious
Timothy had an ulcer...AND
Lazarus was dead!

No more excuses now!!

Get up and get going; God can use you to your full potential.
Besides you aren't the message, you are just the messenger.

God bless

All right, parishioners young and old! We need your help!
Don't let those God-given gifts go to waste!

Religious Education teachers
Help our children walk with Jesus.
90 minutes for 28 Sunday mornings between September and May
(Holidays and 3-day weekends off)
Contact Sr. Kathleen by email or phone (969-4868)

Religious Education aides
Great for Confirmation Candidates and other teens
Earn Community Service hours.
Contact Sr. Kathleen by email or phone (969-4868)

Children's Liturgy of the Word
Share the Word with young children for 20 minutes
during the Sunday 10am Mass.
Contact Sr. Kathleen by email or phone (969-4868)

Transition House
In keeping with our First Friday Tradition, we will be preparing
and serving the evening meal at Transition House. Transition House is
a community sponsored temporary home for families with children. It helps
them become independent, self-sufficient citizens. If you wish to help,
call Angie Ferraro at 563-3945.
Monetary donations may be sent c/o Mt. Carmel Church.

Parents & Teenagers, please bring gently worn toys in need of repair or paint for our Santa’s Workshop. Toys can be dropped off in front of the Parish Hall beginning Nov. 13th. We will be asking pre-teens and teenagers to help paint, repair, wrap and tag toys on Dec. 2,3, & 4. We will begin at 6 p.m. and conclude at 8 p.m. On Sunday Dec. 2nd, we will also be decorating the Parish Hall. All toys will be given to the economically poor children living in Carpinteria and Santa Barbara.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel will be planning our 7th "Santa's Workshop" in November-December 2007.

We are looking for teenage helpers! This exciting program is fun and will bring special meaning to economically deprived children.

We are asking pre-teens and teenagers to help paint, repair, wrap, and tag toys.

If you have a teenage son or daughter, please encourage him/her to join us for whatever length of time possible. We will begin 6:00pm and conclude at 8:00pm. Hopefully, some teenagers will be available to deliver these gifts.

During the month a group of adults will meet to discuss what is needed for Santa's Workshop. They are enthusiastic and look forward to planning this event. On Sunday, teenagers will gather to decorate the hall so it will look like Santa's Workshop. Christmas music and refreshments will add to our festivities. You too, are more than welcome to join us.

If your children have old toys in good or fairly good condition, please bring them to the Parish Hall, beginning the week before Thanksgiving, Nov. 13. We're looking forward to a wonderful Santa's Workshop!

Ecumenical Reach-Out

The community of Churches in Montecito (OLMC, All Saints by the Sea, El Montecito Presbyterian, & Montecito Covenant) participated in a Joint Ecumenical project at El Montecito Presbyterian Church in December 2006. Parishioners prepared kits for Caregivers in Africa who are ministering to young children, women, and men who are dying from AIDS. Thanks to all who donated $20 to cover the cost of one Carekit. Each Church committed to purchasing 250 Carekits.