St. Martin’s believes very strongly in helping those who are in need. The Outreach Committee meets and discusses the different charities and community organizations that we can support. For example, Christine Watt came to our meeting to discuss the Evelyn D. Reinhart Guest House. To help guide us in our outreach ministry, we also added a question to the survey that the Vestry sent out to the congregation on what the members of St. Martin’s see as important to them. A couple of examples of how we aid our community are our donations for relief from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and to Conquer Chiari Walk Across America.

During the year we also sponsored a school supply drive where we donated to two different schools, had a coat drive where we delivered the coats to Puritan Cleaners to be cleaned and given to the Salvation Army to be distributed, collected food at Thanksgiving and during the rest of the year to donate to the Lamb’s Basket, and “adopted” two families for Christmas.  There are six of us on the Committee, but numerous members of the church have helped with these activities throughout the year. The Committee would like to thank those members who are trying to make a difference in helping those less fortunate.