Addiction Recovery Care Association (ARCA)

ARCA is a recovery care unit for substance-abuse patients. ARCA consists of a medical detox unit as well as a spiritually based treatment center. The patients want to be there and learn to stay off the various substances. The majority of these patients are homeless and destitute, and there-fore lack the necessary funds for taking care of additional medical concerns such as high blood pressure and dental problems. They are too sick to go to Crisis Control for free medicine.

Needs:

• Money to go toward medicine. If you are interested in contributing to a medical form, please call Rob Lemons.
• Since most of the patients are indigent, women’s and men’s clothing are needed for job interviews, funerals, etc.
• Feminine products, male/female underwear.
• Friendship House

Friendship House

This is a Christian home in downtown Winston-Salem that has been helping women with alcohol and mild drug-related problems for 44 years. There are usually 6-7 women who stay in the home for approximately a 3-month period, These women receive help spiritually, physically and mentally.

Needs: These ladies could really use the following items:

• cleaning supplies (including dish detergent)
• paper products (napkins, paper plates, styrofoam cups, toilet paper, paper towels)
• toothpaste
• soap
• air fresheners
• orange juice
• twin sheets

They would also love for people to come for a visit or to teach a Bible study. For more information you may contact the director, Faye Coffey or Rob Lemons.

Nursing Center At Oak Summit

Lisa Laveglia, the activity therapy director at The Nursing Center at Oak Summit writes, "The Activity Department of the Nursing Center at Oak Summit would like your help in a project that we think would be beneficial to our female residents. We have noticed that they are more responsive to life-like baby dolls than they are to any other type of stuffed animal or trinket from home. We would like for every female in the facility to have a baby doll of her own to love and be responsible for. It gives them an increased sense of self worth, which is important. We have seen what a baby doll has done to lighten and to brighten someone’s life. We use baby dolls in small sensory groups and many, many times are asked to leave them and regrettably we are not allowed to do so on a permanent basis."

Lisa would like for us to donate as many life-like dolls (both Caucasian and African-American) as we can to the facility. They will then plan a "Baby Shower" at which each female resident will be given an opportunity to choose and adopt a "baby". They will be presented with a birth certificate with the "child’s" chosen name.

Beginning in early December, this nursing center will have an Angel Tree up in their dining room. You may come by, choose an angel and purchase an item that one of the residents needs or wants. For more information, you may contact Lisa Laveglia or Rob Lemons.

Ardmore Transportation Ministry

The Ardmore Transportation Ministry is designed to help people in the Ardmore community to get to doctor’s appointments, the grocery store, etc. It is such a wonderful and important ministry. The organization is needing people in two areas. One, they need volunteers to drive Ardmore citizens to various destinations (usually in the morning hours after 9:00am). Secondly, they need people to man the phone at their office located within Ardmore Methodist Church. These people contact the volunteers to let them know who to pick up the following day and the time. For more information, please contact Don Gaither, Mary Jane Watts, or Nell Hege.

You too can be a missionary at Ardmore Baptist Church. Come join us in our efforts to connect people of all ages with Jesus Christ. For more information on any of these mission projects, call the church office (725-8767).