Micah’s Cold Weather Shelter 2024-25

Please consider volunteering to set up and welcome neighbors without permanent housing to the Micah Cold Weather Shelters this winter when overnight temperatures drop below freezing or if inclement weather is forecasted. The shelter will operate as needed between Nov. 15 and March 15. Openings will be posted on the Micah website by 10 a.m. each day for that evening.

The Presbyterian Church is organizing teams of volunteers to cover Wednesday evenings when the shelters are open. One team would cover the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays and the other team would serve on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays. Volunteers are also welcome to pick dates when they are available to help.

The men’s shelter is located at the Rappahannock Adult Activities Center, 750 Kings Highway. The women’s shelter is at Fredericksburg Baptist Church. Enter through the Red Door on Amelia Street. Volunteers arrive at the shelters at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays to set up and check people in at 6:30 p.m. Once our neighbors are settled, volunteers can visit with them or depart. Orientation sessions for volunteers will be offered at each shelter on Wednesday, Nov. 6 from 6-8 p.m. and on Sunday, Nov. 10 from 2:30-4:30 p.m.

For more information or to sign up for the women’s shelter, sign up here or contact Amy Talmadge. For the men’s shelter, sign up here or contact Jim Toler.

Thanksgiving Boxes

Donations of the following traditional Thanksgiving meal items are needed so our congregation

can assist local families in need. You may buy as many individual items as you wish or buy all items for a complete meal. Boxes will be decorated and filled after our congregational lunch on November 17th.

Items can be dropped off in the vacant associate pastor office on the first floor of the Education building before November 17th or brought to the fellowship hall that day. The filled boxes will be delivered to Fredericksburg City Schools on November 21st. Questions? Call or email Jim Toler.

2 cans of corn

2 cans of green beans

1 can of mixed vegetables or other canned vegetables

1 bag of rice or a box of macaroni and cheese

1 can of cranberry sauce (jellied is popular)

1 box or bag of stuffing mix

1 box of Jiffy cornbread/muffin mix or Bisquick baking mix

1 Pie crust mix with pumpkin/ fruit pie filling or 1 box of cake mix and frosting

1 $10 gift card from Giant or Walmart

Ongoing Outreach Opportunities

Good Samaritan Fund

TPC has a Good Samaritan Fund that is available to people in the Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Spotsylvania area who are struggling with utility bills. We offer limited utility assistance, up to $100, to people in need. Our Good Samaritan Fund is once again dwindling, and we have to turn people away who are in need. We currently have enough to fund this mission for six more months at $1,600 per month to give away. If you would like to make a donation to this important ministry, you may donate online or by check with “Good Samaritan” written in the memo line.