March Food Barrel:
The following individual sized items are needed to support Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: pop-top canned fruit and vegetables, canned meat and fish, meat based soups and stews, shelf-stable milk or soy milk, cereal, grits and oatmeal. Also, healthy snacks, such as Goldfish, dried fruit and granola bars, 100% juice (in individual cans, boxes or plastic bottles), noodles ( such as EasyMac, Spaghettios, Ramen).
You may direct your questions to Sandy Willey, Food Barrel Coordinator, sfwilley@mindspring.com or 518-0784.
OUTREACH MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES
Contact Kate Greengrove kate.a.greengrove@gsk.com if you are interested.
MEALS ON WHEELS DRIVER
Description: Meals on Wheels is a non-profit volunteer program which delivers 1000 hot, nutritious meals a day to homebound Wake County citizens 60 and over.
Responsibilities: With your partner, deliver in your vehicle, from 12 to 18 meals to the homebound on one of thirty routes in Raleigh and northern Wake County.
Time Frame: Once a week at 11:30 am for approximately 45 minutes.
WORLD HUNGER APPEAL
Description: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) commitment to supporting people who live with chronic hunger and poverty around the world is carried out by ELCA World Hunger through relief, development, education and advocacy. ELCA offers many educational resources to congregations.
Responsibilities: Order educational resources and distribute them to the congregation. Communicate updates to the congregation via the newsletter, pewsletter, and/or e-mail alerts.
Timeframe: 5th Sunday months
LWR FAIR TRADE COFFEE, CHOCOLATE, and HANDCRAFT PROJECTS
Description: Equal Exchange, founded in 1986, is the oldest and largest for-profit fair trade company in the US. Their mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, and to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers. Equal Exchange has partnered with Lutheran World Relief (LWR) to provide aid to those in need in an innovative way. Farmers earn a fairer share of income and congregations learn more about the world, its economy, and our part in it by learning about and purchasing fair trade items.
Responsibilities: Order coffee, chocolate and educational materials through Lutheran World relief. Sell coffee and chocolate the second Sunday of each month. Communicate updates to the congregation via the newsletter, pewsletter, and/or e-mail alerts.
Timeframe: Monthly
Center for Volunteer Caregiving
The Center for Volunteer Caregiving is a private, nonprofit, interfaith organization whose mission is to provide volunteer support to elderly and disabled adults of Wake County to help maintain dignity, independence, and quality of life. We recruit, train, and support volunteers from the faith community and the community at large, matching them with elderly and disabled adults. There are no fees for our services. Additional information may be found here.
Call Bruce Wehrle at 614-0432 anytime for more information.
Project_Nehemiah
There are over 2 million people now in America’s prisons. Over 4 million are on probation or parole. The Community Resource Council, at Wake County Correctional Center, is trying to figure out what we can do about the thousands of ex-offenders who will be released in our local area in the next few years. Two thirds of these will be back in prison within three years.
What is CRC doing? They are prayerfully and urgently formulating a focus on multi-phase projects. They will provide various activities such as a facility fish fry, ice cream social, holiday and birthday parties, and family appreciation days for staff and inmate. They are also establishing a clothing closet with a complete range of sizes and styles for dress and casual. They plan to identify those coming back to our community with non-violent offenses, prior to release, and focus on them to reduce recidivism. They plan to connect with groups that have active and successful track records.
The organization thinks it is very important to place social movement organizations at the center of the program. They hope community businesses and churches will help create opportunities and a positive image of formerly incarcerated people.
How can we help? For more information contact Dwayne Baker at 733-7988 or visit Project_Nehemiah@yahoo.com for information on their program to help fathers to help their children – Project Nehemiah