Help us pray blessings on our expanded POP Community Garden, our gardeners, and the LIFE Food Pantry as we prepare for planting enough vegetables to share with our neighbors. Join us in the garden after worship!
Ministry Team Leader Meetings bring together leaders from various groups across the congregation to equip one another to live and love like Jesus. The purpose is to share information about ongoing ministries in our community and collaborate on ways to support, resource, and communicate effectively. These meetings aim to build collaboration opportunities, fostering a world of grace and peace.
Prince of Peace is excited to sponsor the Great Symmes Easter Egg Hunt as a Community Outreach Event where we have a chance to connect with our neighbors and share a little bit of God’s love! Come with your family to participate or volunteer at the event!
To volunteer, we’ll need help at the Prince of Peace booth greeting people and connecting. Another group will help with the behind-the-scenes of the event helping kids swap tickets for prizes. Sign up here or at Prince of Peace on the bulletin board.
Volunteers needed 9:30 AM to Noon
Kids Activities begin at 10:15 AM
Be a part of POP's spring service day at Clutter2Care in Mason. We'll enjoy fellowship while we work to organize and sort donated items. Clutter2Care is a local non-profit thrift store that donates store earnings to meet the needs of at-risk and marginalized children in our local area as well as in Haiti. All ages and abilities are welcome to serve. Click here to sign up.
Clutter2Care Warehouse, 8703 Fields Ertel Road, Cincinnati, OH 45249
Join us for a time of helping together. Volunteers will pack rice, fortified soy protein, dried vegetables, and a blend of 21 vitamins and minerals into bags that will then be sealed, boxed, and prepared for international shipment to children who need it most. Open to all ages and abilities. This event is open for the first 80 people so sign up soon to save your family’s spot!
Fill and drop off Holiday Meal bags for LIFE Food Pantry!
Click here to see a list of items needed and to sign up to contribute a ham: popluther.org/advent
Make plans to attend the 2nd annual LIFE Empty Bowls event October 14th from 11-2:30 at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church. For just $25, you can enjoy warm soup, fresh bread, and decadent desserts provided by local sponsors, and take home a beautiful handmade pottery bowl donated from local artists. All proceeds will benefit the Loveland LIFE Food Pantry, which provides food and financial assistance to our local neighbors in need.
In addition, you’ll have an opportunity to win fabulous gift baskets donated by local businesses and the community. If you are interested in being a donor this year, please contact emptybowls@lifefoodpantry.org
Information on how/where to purchase tickets will be announced soon! Check out our website for the latest details. https://lifefoodpantry.org/emptybowls/
One weekend every year we make a commitment to pausing our patterns and turning the church inside out to serve all weekend long. Service opportunities with new and old partners across the city will be available for people of all ages and abilities. Head to this page to learn about all of the opportunities.
Could you join us to greet kids, prepare sandwiches, play a game, or listen to kids read during NEST's annual summer program? Adults and youth (7th grade and above) are needed. Register here or at the sign up sheet on the bulletin board.
Community Garden Blessing
Sunday, April 23
11:45 AM
Come see the work that has begun and pray for God's blessings in our Community Garden.
The Prince of Peace Rummage Sale is around the corner! We will be accepting donations from April 23-27 (large item pick-up will be Sunday, April 23). We need both donations and help to organize. More details to come! Contact Tanner with any questions.
Meet at the Little Miami Inc. visitor center in downtown Loveland (at the bike trail by Nisbet Park) anytime during these hours. Supplies, drinks and T-shirts provided. Target areas will be directed by the Loveland Environment Committee RAIN OR SHINE. For additional information, call Gary Benesh at 513-250-7652 or Email at ggbenesh14@gmail.com.
Tikkun Farm Crock Pot Meal Program
Help Prep Meals
Weekend of April 21-23
Volunteers are once again invited to chop and bag fresh ingredients at home in support of Tikkun Farm’s crockpot meal program. Could you help prepare provided items, such as onions, carrots and celery? Finished kits containing everything needed for a nourishing meal will reach 320 families, including disabled adults, single parents, homeless families living in hotels, and others needing food support. Click here to sign up.
Serve Together at Tikkun Farm
Saturday, April 1 at 9 AM
Spend a morning at the farm as we help with springtime garden and construction projects at Tikkun. There are tasks for all ages and abilities – you can even pet the alpacas! Together we can be a hopeful, helpful part of Tikkun’s mission after their devastating fire on Christmas Eve.
Sign up here.
Make a donation towards Hoops for Haiti that will foster life-giving impact for Haiti’s poor. All proceeds will be sent to The Haitian Timoun Foundation.
Whether or not you complete a bracket, we invite you to support the cause! We hope to help HTF raise $50,000 towards summer camp for kids in Jacmel led by young adult leaders from across Haiti!
For each bracket entered we ask for a $25 minimum donation. Donate here!
A link to the HTF Hoops for Haiti Bracket will be posted when brackets are available at: https://www.popluther.org/hoops
All 8th grade and high school students are invited to join us for a Discipleship Tour meeting! Discipleship Tours are engaging 5-day trips with our students where we grow in faith by having worship and devotions nightly. We connect in community and serve the world by being the hands and feet of Jesus doing a variety of different service projects and volunteer sites. Even if you're not completely sure about attending this year, please attend this meeting to find out more about it! If you cannot make it, please reach out to Tanner.
You’re invited to shop for a local family’s holiday meal so that all may have hope this Christmas. Distributed through LIFE food pantry, holiday meal bags will help support 100 families in need in Loveland. Pick up a donation bag and shopping list in the Gathering Space. Then, drop off filled bags to the coat alcove by December 18. Volunteers are also invited to come together to transport bags or pick up pre-paid perishables at Kroger or ALDI on 12/18 or 12/21.
THE GIVING TREE IS COMING SOON!
One of our favorite Christmas Traditions is returning! All are invited to take a tag or a few and return an unwrapped gift for our neighbors experiencing times of need. Gifts need to be dropped off by 12/4.
All gift donations will be sent to the Holiday Giving Shop where LIFE clients can select gifts for their families. This traditional shop in Loveland has supported over 200 families.
Help share God’s love through the comfort and stability of household furnishings. We’ll work together behind the scenes and in the store to sort and shelve furnishings and small household items. Great for those ages 10+.
Help get the garden ready for cooler weather ahead with projects just right for all ages. Bring your garden gloves and a few favorite tools and enjoy some hot apple cider at the end.
NEST’s Dancing with the Stars is a fundraiser benefiting the children of Loveland!
It's time for one of the best community events of the year! We hope you'll invite your friends and neighbors and come out for Trunk or Treat! This is a fun event where families from POP and around the neighborhood enjoy a night of silly, spooky fun. Join us for a hot dog dinner and bring an appetite for some sweet treats! Awards will be given for the top trunks in the categories of: Spookiest, Holiest, and Most Creative. Sign up online or on the bulletin board to host a trunk or help with the event. Rain or shine!
If you can help by donating candy, please drop it off in the bin in the Lebanon Road entryway.
Come to Learn about and Support the OJPC
The Ohio Justice & Policy Center is a nonprofit law firm that works to create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems. They provide direct legal assistance to clients, advocate for better policies and laws, and conduct community education.
Do you have a household chore that you could use a little help completing (like flipping a mattress, dusting those cabinet tops, organizing, or weeding)?
Would you like to help provide help to someone who could use a little extra assistance?
Learn more!
Register today for the Warrior Run!
Saturday, October 8 - In person or virtual
Dogwood Park in Mariemont
At Prince of Peace, we declare that love and life win. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in teens and young adults. The race brings together people from all over the country to work as a unit to bring mental health awareness into our communities, start conversations, and emphasize that no one will fight this fight alone. Join us at the Warrior Run to make a difference.
All ages are welcome to participate! Choose to run/walk the 1 mile or the 5K, either in person or virtually. Come set your pace with POP! Can't participate? Consider contributing to our team: POPStars! Proceeds support mental health programs and outreach. Register today and join our team! Early Bird Registration with pre-race t-shirt through September 5. Regular Registration through October 1.
POP and LIFE Food Pantry are teaming up to host our first annual Empty Bowls event! All proceeds benefit our local food pantry. Guests will choose a unique pottery bowl made by a local artist and enjoy a soup luncheon courtesy of dozens of Loveland restaurants. There are only 125 tickets per seating, so order yours today!
The Moving Mountains Gala is having life-giving impact for many many families in Haiti.
Serve a meal to the hungry/homeless at Hosea House in Newport, KY. They are in need of volunteers on Saturday, July 23 from 2:30-6pm. He does the shopping, we do the cooking on-site, then serve and clean up afterward. We need at least 10 people to join us. Families are welcome, but children should at least be grade school age.
There is not a lot of parking near Hosea House, so it would be great if we could carpool.
If you would like to help, please respond on soon so he can find volunteers elsewhere if we don’t have at least ten.
Peace,
Sheryl Melvin
Sherylmelvin@hotmail.com
513-504-5060
POP will prepare a meal for families experiencing housing insecurity on July 22/23.
Come when you can, leave when you must!
Come check out the community garden and then help with another dirty/sweaty service opportunity. The home next door to our parking lot (by the basketball hoop) will soon be home to our refugee family. The flower beds are definitely in need of weeding. If you are available to help spruce up the beds this Sunday after the 10:30 service, please join me for 90-120 minutes. Please bring your garden tools and gloves, a water bottle, and your best gardening joke. Family and friends welcome!
Contact Sheryl Melvin with questions sherylmelvin@hotmail.com.
