Thank you, Team 78
Thank you to our seventh and eighth graders for making 50 sandwiches and assembling 50 sack lunches for the Drop-In Center in Newark. The center was so grateful when the lunches were arrived on Tuesday.
And, a special thank you to Mark Atchison for overseeing it all this past Sunday!
Each Wonderful Wednesday in March, we will be collecting individually wrapped food items for the Newark Drop-In Center. The center is only open 3 days a week. The center serves people who are experiencing homelessness who need a mailing address, a place to charge their phone, help with getting needed documents for job hunting, a sack lunch and for some….just a place to rest out of the elements.
Our church has committed to preparing 50 sack lunches each month for the center. We are collecting the following individually wrapped items in March:
Gatorade
Chips
Cookies
Granola bars
Trail mix
A huge THANK YOU to Mark Bruce and the Kroger organization for providing gift cards so we can purchase meat, cheese and bread for sandwiches. Together we can serve our neighbors as Jesus asks of us in Matthew 25. Let’s do this together!
After touring the Food Pantry Network in Newark last week, there are great changes happening!
The organization has rethought how they distribute food, creating FPN Markets.
Food pantries in Licking County are converting their model of distribution to be more intentional about respecting people’s dignity.
Clients will have a “regular” grocery store experience, instead of being handed a box of food at each visit.
Clients can “shop” for themselves, taking what they need and leaving what they don’t.
They can shop at any location, not just the one assigned to them, at the times they are assigned.
March is the pantry’s largest community-wide drive to fight hunger in Licking County – Operation Feed.
With an increase of 29.5% more households requesting food assistance this year, our support for the FPN of LC is important!
For more information on how to support our neighbors, visit www.foodpantrynetwork.net.
