SOCIAL MINISTRIES

Our Hope Pantry will continue pending decision of the Pantry task-force. Pantry Sunday is the 3rd Sunday of each month. Food items may be brought to church and placed in our food barrel. Monetary donations are still appreciated to purchase food items that are not donated.

The Pantry task-force is still waiting for a reply from Santa Clara FISH – no reply.

We need to re-start the Pantry Partners. List is missing from the Pantry cupboards, so we’ll try to find this in our files somewhere, make contacts, and restart. Many thanks to Paul Shumaker for buying food and assembling bags in February and March, and to Lois Scheaffer, for assembling lunches. If you are a Pantry Partner or would like to become a partner, please call the church office so we may set up a new schedule.

Our thanks to all who make our Lenten Soup suppers a success – raised $2203 for Rwanda.

Future activities for 2010:

Family Shelter Dinner dates will be Saturday, April 10, and Sunday, June 13. Our thanks to the Heims and Fremlings who helped at the the Shelter on 4/10. Also our thanks to those who donated items for the dinner: McGills for the potatoes; Mark for the salad dressing, chili, cheese sauces (mild & hot), sour cream, butter/margarine, broccoli crowns, canned green beans, drink pouches, and Tampico punch; Bente Ellis and Shirley Shumaker for the brownies; Loretta for the salad fixings (lettuce, celery, carrots, and tomatoes).

Our thanks to Kathy Meagher for coordinating the CROP Walk on April 25th and to all those who sponsored our walkers. Those who walked were: Laura, Isabella, & Serafina Clark-Moore; Nora, Jared, Aaron & Andrew Oluoch; Kathy Meagher; Pastor John; Lois Steiner; Bente Ellis; Mark & Laurie Greiner; Sherri Heim; and Rob Leeper.

Social Ministries is sponsoring a collection of boxes of powdered milk (any size appreciated) to benefit the hot meal ministry of Our Daily Bread in Sunnyvale. Diners drink about 30 gallons of milk peer week and it is one fof the most expensive food items that ODB has to purchase. If you can help, please bring your box to Hope any time before Mother’s Day, May 9th.

Social Ministries will be coordinating the annual church picnic on Sunday, June 6th. Suggested menu: ribs, potato salad, coleslaw, chili beans, garlic bread, hot dogs, veggie burgers, watermelon, assorted ice creams, kool-aid, sodas, lemonade, and/or water for drinks; Suggested charge: $10/adults (kids free). Proceeds from the picnic will be donated to the Rwanda project (if the goal is not reached by that time) and to the Hope Pantry.

The Pie Social has been set for Sunday, July 18th. Beneficiary of proceeds is yet to be decided on.

Next Social Ministries meeting is Tuesday, May 4, 7:00 p.m., in Fireside Room.

SOS Sunday

SOS (Serving Others Sunday) is the 3rd Sunday of each month. Food for our Hope Pantry may be brought and left in the narthex. Monetary donations are also welcome.

Fair traded coffee, teas, chocolate bars, and cocoa are also available for purchase on this Sunday. If you would like to purchase these items at another time, talk to Kathy Meagher.