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ANNUAL REPORT

2007

Onslow Community Ministries 600 Court Street

Jacksonville, NC 28540 910-455-5733

Fax: 910-455-5795 www.onslowcm.org info@onslowcm.org

Soup Kitchen/Shelter: 910-347-3227

Clinic: 910-577-2295 Volunteer Center: 910-938-4357 Christmas Cheer: 910-347-4646

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Dear Onslow Community Ministries Supporter,

I would personally like to thank each and every one of you

who have supported Onslow Community Ministries. We had over

2,000 volunteers last year and received countless donations of food,

toys and dollars.

In 2007, we once again experienced an increase in demand for

our services. The homeless shelter usage was up by 31%, the clinic

services was up by 70% and the Soup Kitchen served over 100,000

meals which was a 2% increase. While the demand for our programs

continues to grow, our funding has not. 2007 was a very challenging

funding year with a $76,000 reduction in grant income. Despite cut

backs and the elimination of our administrative assistant position, the

Ministries had a $42,000 loss in 2007.

We are taking additional steps this year to try to increase our

income. We appreciate whatever support you can offer. Thank you

so much for your support and generosity.

Warmest Regards,

Sandra Wyrick

Executive Director

Be sure to check out the Ministries website at:

onslowcm.org

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Financial Update

Onslow Community Ministries Income

Special Thanks to Onslow Memorial Hospital

31 Businesses for a total of $ 39,405.00 30 Churches for a total of $ 45,485.00

248 Individuals for a total of $ 66,728.00

25 Organizations for a total of $ 24,601.00

Contributions Income: $176,219.00

Thank you to the Following Ministries Grant Providers

City of Jacksonville NC Association of Free Clinic

Combined Federal Campaign Onslow County

Emergency Food & Shelter United Way of Onslow County

Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Wachovia Foundation

Kate B Reynolds Charitable Trust

Grant Income: $170,526.00

Christmas Cheer

Special Thanks to: Onslow Bay Open King Mackerel Tournament &

Richlands Piggly Wiggly

17 Businesses for a total of $14,170.00

9 Churches for a total of $ 6,619.00 130 Individuals for a total of $23,679.00

9 Organizations for a total of $12,085.00

Contributions Income: $56,553.00

Thank you to the Following Christmas Cheer Grant Providers City of Jacksonville

Grant Income: $2,000

Thank you Spotlight Entertainers for once again holding the annual

Christmas Concert benefit for Onslow Community Ministries and to the

Onslow Caring Community Foundation for hosting a golf tournament

fundraiser for the Caring Community Clinic’s Endowment.

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Christmas Cheer

IN 2007 …

• 1,390 families, 5,220 individuals assisted (14% increase)

• 3,171 children received presents through this program

• 20,000+ toys were distributed

• 215 active duty families were assisted

• 774 volunteers worked a total of 4,219 volunteer hours

A CHRISTMAS CHEER STORY

Chanya is the mother of six children ages 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 9 and recently her husband was injured on the job. Expenses have been mounting and if it wasn’t for the Christmas Cheer program, her family would

not be celebrating Christmas. Thanks to this program, each child will get 4 or 5 toys and they will have plenty of food to enjoy a wonderful Christmas meal. The Christmas Cheer program changed

their lives for the better.

WISH LIST … Soup Kitchen

• Peanut Butter and Jelly

• Prepaid Gas Cards

• 3 compartment Styrofoam plates

• Plastic utensils

• 8 oz. Styrofoam cups

• Paper Napkins

• Paper Towels

• Pleated sandwich bags

• Liquid Dish Soap

• Laundry Detergent

• 39 gallon trash bags

• Toilet paper

• Salt and Pepper

• Spices

• Canned Goods (especially kidney, lima, navy and pinto beans, tomato sauce and mixed vegetables)

Homeless Shelter

• Small Area Rugs

• Women and Men Undergarments

• Phone Cards

• Nail Clippers

• Toothbrushes

• Deodorant

• Foot powder

• Sweatshirts/sweat pants

• Rain ponchos

• Wash cloths

• Laundry Detergent Clinic

• Aspirin / Tylenol

• Over the counter cold remedies

• Ear drops and droppers

• Anti-fungal cream

• Soap

Christmas Cheer

• A permanent location

• Toys (especially African American baby dolls and trucks)

• Database writer (must have extensive knowledge in visual basic and be able to handle multiple tables)

Administration

• Laptop

• Paper and General Office Supplies

• 10 x 10 Tent for community events.

• LCD projector for community presentations

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2007 Board of Directors

President/ Chairman: Don Herring Coastal Carolina Community College

Vice Chairman: Diana DeVusser Diana’s Dance Academy

Treasurer: Pam Thomas Onslow County Schools

Secretary: JoAnne Smith Volunteer

Board Members:

Theresa Caserta, TM Marketing

Jane Choate, Onslow County Schools

Christy O’Daniel, Volunteer

Deacon Arlon Pickett, Union Missionary Baptist Church

Preston Taylor, Piggly Wiggly

Bill Upton, Retired Navy

Staff

Administration: Sandra Wyrick, Executive Director Susan Taylor, Comptroller Allyson James, Fund Developer

Caring Community Clinic: Anthony Anderson, Clinic Director Dr. Swetang Patel, Medical Director Tiffany Adams, Case Manager Meghan Rowe, Pharmacy Tech

Soup Kitchen: Remy Stitt, Director Jeff Bober, Assistant Lloyd Brown, Assistant

Homeless Shelter: Christina Bailey, Director Donnell Hines, Shelter Assistant Theresa Snedecker, Shelter Staff Amy Patrick, Shelter Staff Laura Hartmann, Shelter Staff

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Soup Kitchen

IN 2007 …

• 100,233 meals served in 2007 (2% increase)

• New Soup Kitchen truck was donated

• A nationwide peanut butter recall caused us to discard tons of peanut butter, but the gracious community of Onslow County pulled together and kept our sandwiches going.

• We had to decrease the number of routes driven due to the increasing cost of gasoline

• 500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are made daily (requiring 32 pounds of peanut butter and 40 pounds of jelly)

• Soup Kitchen trucks drove 29,000 miles (costing approximately $6,700 for gasoline)

• 1,000 meals were served at Thanksgiving and Christmas

• 17,263 volunteer hours were clocked at the Soup Kitchen, an $89,000 value

Darryl Graham in Maple Hill

Mr. Darryl Graham lives in Maple Hill and helps to take care of his diabetic mother. Every day, Daryl rides his bicycle one mile each way to meet the Soup Kitchen truck which visits his area. He is extremely grateful and appreciative of the food supplied to his family because of the Soup Kitchen. Daryl stated that this food has helped his mother to eat better and to assist in keeping her diabetes under control.

Thank You for our new Soup Kitchen Truck:

On Friday, June 22nd, thanks to the generosity of Mike Alford and

Marine Chevrolet and the Rotary Clubs of Jacksonville, Sneads Ferry

and Richlands, the Soup Kitchen was handed the keys to a brand new

truck. We would like to thank all involved with making this happen, especially John Rouse of Wachovia for coordinating the fundraising effort.

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Volunteer Center

IN 2007 …

• Volunteers were coordinated for the following community events: Letter Carriers Food Drive, Celebrity Golf Tournament, Make a Difference Day and Christmas Cheer.

• Acted as a volunteer resource for 25 local non-profit agencies.

• Organized and conducted the Golden Rule Awards for volunteerism in Onslow County

• Submitted volunteers for state recognition

Golden Rule Winners of 2007

(Every April during national volunteer week,

Jacksonville-Onslow Volunteer Center distributes

volunteer awards in several categories)

Adult: Laurie Baldridge of Guardian ad Litem

Youth: Dylan Cushman of White Oak High School

Group: Guardian ad Litem

NC State Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service

James Burgess – Nominated by Onslow Community Ministries Soup Kitchen

Guardian ad Litem Program Volunteers – Nominated by Iris Derrick

Gordon and Barbara Crossman – Nominated by the Salvation Army

Dawn Rochelle – Nominated by the United Way of Onslow County

Tabitha Ernst – Nominated by Guardian ad Litem

VOLUNTEER WEBSITE

If you are an individual interested in volunteering in the Onslow County Community OR a business seeking volunteers, make sure you visit our new volunteer website. This website sponsored by the Points of Light Foundation provides volunteers and

businesses in Onslow County, the ability to find each other.

www.1-800-volunteer.org

Lifetime Achievement Award: Ray and Sarah Humphries

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Homeless Shelter

IN 2007 …

• 256 residents, 2,184 bed nights (31% increase)

• The shelter takes $90,000 per year to operate.

• In 2007, the shelter program recorded a $34,000 loss

• Shelter residents in 2007 included: 79 women, 133 men, 22

families, 36 veterans and 44 children

• Primary reasons for staying at the shelter were eviction and

unemployment.

Benevolent Services

IN 2007 …

• 80 individuals received assistance with rent and utility bills

For the expense of $40, one person gets:

• A night of shelter

• 3 complete meals

• A warm shower

• Assistance with job search, apartment search, identifying educational oppor-tunities, finding clothing, resume writing and financial planning.

• Free Internet Access

• Laundry Available

If there was no Shelter … • Crime rates would increase

• Disease and illness would increase – impacting healthcare costs

• More people would be sleeping under bridges and in abandoned homes and vehicles

• the road to self sufficiency would be much more difficult

• the percentage of substance abusers would increase

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Thank You Soup Kitchen VolunteersThank You Soup Kitchen VolunteersThank You Soup Kitchen VolunteersThank You Soup Kitchen Volunteers

Jo Acken Carolyn Armstrong Bob Baldwin James Burgess Annette Cherry Ruth Clifton Louise Collins Pat Elliott Anne He Foskey Rosa Grant

Marie Gray Joanne Hughes Pat Konopka Betty Macco Jim Macco Bob Medlin Norma Medlin Rosemary Neagle Christy O’Daniel Flo Omasta

Ruth Rachovitz Marie Rustic Edna Saulnien Lillian Senatro Marian Shiver Charles Trible John Vavro Norma Voss Toni Wozniak Steve Young

Danny Boehm Billy Ray Brawley David Bush Palmer Anthony Cristo Raymond Eckenrode LG Foskey Ed Galbraith

Rhyne Garris Million Hardison Willie Johnson Bernie LaClair Mac McGee Leon Neagle Ted Parmen

Richard Ray Henry Rose William Sidberry Jim Turner Robert Wunder Binnie Young

James Burgess Bob Canning

Glenn Hall

COOKS

DRIVERS

FOOD PREPARERS/SERVERS

VOLUNTEER GROUPS/CHURCHES

Antioch Presbyterian Brookwood Baptist Church Calvary Lutheran Catholic Daughters Ladies Auxilary Centerview Baptist Enon Chapel Baptist Church Evening View First Baptist Church First Presbyterian First United Methodist Sneads Ferry Good News Ministries H & R Block Jacksonville Bible Church Jacksonville Christian Jacksonville Pentecostal Holiness Infant of Prague Lutheran Church of Our Savior

Maple Hill Presbyterian MCAS Protestant Chapel New Beginnings Christian Center New River Baptist New River Catholic Chapel Northwoods United Methodist Pine Valley United Methodist Richlands United Methodist SAT High School Students Sempre Fi Masonry Lodge Sneads Ferry Presbyterian St. Anne’s Episcopal St. Julia AME Zion Trinity United Methodist Union Missionary Baptist Vineyard Gospel Ministries

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Caring Community Clinic

IN 2007 …

• 1,609 patients in 2007 (70% increase)

• 5,124 free prescriptions, a $600,000 value

• 1,037 Volunteer hours, a $31,175 value

• Implemented an appointment scheduling system, which eliminated

the need for patients to line up 3 hours before the providers arrived

• Turned away an average of 40 patients per week

Caren Appreciates the Clinic

When Caren moved to North Carolina, she discovered that she was not going to have medical insurance. In Georgia, Caren qualified for a special program which provided her medical coverage, this program does not exist in North Carolina. Caren is diabetic and has high blood pressure. She requires regular check-ups and expensive medicine.

If it wasn’t for the Caring Community Clinic, Caren would have to go without this much needed medicine. The Caring Community Clinic has changed Caren’s life.

Thank you to the following restaurants who donated meals to feed our staff and volunteers:

Arby’s Bakers Beans Chick Fil-A

Ci Ci’s Pizza Coney Island Hooters Humming Bird Jersey Mikes

Logan’s Mai-Tai Marina Café Outback Pizza Hut

Ragazzi’s Smithfield’s Sub Station II

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Thank You Clinic VolunteersThank You Clinic VolunteersThank You Clinic VolunteersThank You Clinic Volunteers

PROVIDERS

PHARMACISTS

NURSES

Swetang Patel, MD (Medical Director) Mufidya Abraham, PA Franklin Dill, MD Ruth Guyer, MD John Hawley, PA

Phornphan Homiak, PA Connie Kitchen, FNP Robert Krause, MD Quang Le, MD Faye New, FNP

Louis Shields, RPH (Pharmacy Director) Brian Beasley, RPH Kendra Billingsley, RPH Dave Butler, RPH Jill Ann Denny, RPH Dan Doban, RPH Paula Harris, RPH Amy King, RPH

Lori Marheine, RPH Lori Mayer, RPH Anna Mitchell, RPH Kent Painter, RPH Judy Paliotti, RPH Scott Smith, RPH Joe Zambito, RPH

Fay Barnett, RN Stephanie Burleson, RN Cheryl Ann Coale, LPN Linda “Gail” Dunn, RN Dorothy Ford, RN Judy Comstock Frye, RN Kathleen Giffin, LPN Lori Griffin, RN

Claire Karen, LPN Patricia “Trish” Kramer, RN Janet Ladd, RN Linda Larson, RN Suzzane Ritter, RN Rickey Ruffin, RN Cathy Sunden, RN Judy Vickers, RN

CLERICAL

Anthony Anderson Tracey Debow Lorraine Dingle Donald Dunlap Dayna Dunn

Velma Favor Crystal Harrington Judy Jones Bridget Shanahan

A special THANK YOU to Donald Dunlap who volunteered an incredible

453 hours during 2007.

Louis Shields, RPH Pharmacy Director

Dr. Swetang Patel Medical Director