By Christine Piatek, for the Food Ministry
The September food drive to support El Centro in Trenton collected $811 worth of food. The donation was warmly received, with thanks from El Centro’s Executive Director Robert Hernandez to everyone at UUCWC. Roberto shared that the food bags, made up of our donations, will enable families to buy milk or other essentials they might not otherwise afford.
We continue to participate in several community service activities, including preparing a meal once a month for the Monday night HomeFront Tutoring Program, preparing supper sandwich bags once a month for the Tuesday night HomeFront program at the Lawrence Community Center, and preparing and delivering a hot meal to Luther Arms Senior Housing in Trenton on the last Thursday of each month.
In November, we will share a pizza dinner with Pastora Karen Hernandez-Granden and an equal number of representatives of the Westminster Presbyterian Church on Greenwood Avenue in Trenton. This will be the first gathering in what we hope will be an ongoing partnership with Westminster Presbyterian and its local community to find ways to support the community. In December, on the day of the Christmas Pageant, children from our Children and Youth Family Ministry program will help to prepare shelf-stable snack bags that we will donate to Westminster Presbyterian for their Three Kings service on January 4th.
On December 14th, we will host the third annual chili fundraiser after the Sunday service and before the LOVE Jazz Orchestra concert.
We’ll follow these projects with our second food drive in January.
Interested in the work of the Food Ministry? Contact us at foodministry@uucwc.org.