And a Good Time was had by all!
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| The Outreach van arrives |
During the weeks of the Lenten season
all of the churches in the Casco Bay Cluster had the opportunity to assist in
the collection of monies that would be dedicated to the “End the Growling”
campaign through the offerings that were gathered at each Lenten Service. In
addition each church was asked to develop teams that would seek donations of
money that would be used to purchase the dry good ingredients to make packets
of minestrone soup that would feed 6 people. Each team member had a goal of
raising $45 per each member of a team.
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| Unloading begins |
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| Ellis moves bins |
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| Len with a heavy load |
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| Keith helps with cases |
On the day before the packing event a
number of folks from Peoples showed up to help unpack the Outreach Inc. van of
the dry goods, boxes and equipment used in the packing process. Additionally a
team placed dated stickers on each of the thousands of packets that would be
filled on Saturday.
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| Pastor Ami is precise |
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Peoples sponsored three teams;
Peoples Packers, Tuesday morning and Hunger Stoppers. In all 28 people from
Peoples would volunteer to pack on one or more of the three teams. Other
members of the church may not have been available to help pack but they did
help to raise the funds. Peoples alone raised $1329.19 through the team method.
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| The ingredients for soup packets feed six |
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| Peoples Packers work together |
In all there were nine teams with
three more from Thornton Heights and one each from Cape Elizabeth and West Scarborough.
Another team, I believe, represented a Girl Scout troop. Over the three hours
from 10 AM to 1PM the nine teams were responsible for filling 16,200 food
packets. The age range of the participants ran from around 8 years of age to
80.
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| Thornton Heights kids |
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| Tuesday morning group |
These packets were packed 36 to the
case and 36 cases. They will be distributed to local food cupboards and some
will go to Millinocket to help refill their food cupboard.
We thank Janemarie of Outreach and
Cori from Thornton Heights UMC, pastors Ami, Dodie and Tom for their presence
and help supporting this effort. We also thank Rosemary and others for
providing the snacks that were much needed before or after our duty time.
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| A little posing before we begin |
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| Cori, Pastor Ami and UMW from THUMC |
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| Randi and Marlene take a break |
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| Rosemary and Pastor Tom serve snakcs |
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| CEHS Crew |
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| The last packet is filled at 1:33 PM |
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| Janemarie helps pack West Scarborough |
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| Ellis Hall at 2:30 PM |
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