January Lunches

Happy New Year to all !
As of Wednesday January 16, at 4PM we still need the following:

100 snacks (chips, pretzels, peanut butter crackers)
60 fruit cups or pieces of fruit
180 desserts (cookies, pudding, sweet food)
35 lbs of lunch meat
46 loaves of bread

This does not include all the donations from people who donate every month...
I know we will receive around 28 lbs of meat and 10 loaves of bread from regular donors...
I will send out an email alerting everyone... We also can use more chap sticks. We have 100... and hope to get a couple hundred or so to hand out.

Thanks so much to all who share of their time and treasure!

Merry Christmas

To all who have raised their hands in service to those in need... a huge thank you for your charity: Love of others... the choice to rise from the warmth of beds and comfortable homes to venture out in cars over to St Michael's... sometimes wondering will anyone else be there, even the smallest of choices extends the true love of the season. So much goes into making a bountiful gift of lunches and water for those in need that it truly is a blessing when there is an outpouring of hearts and hands the third Saturday of the month...

And so on December the 15th, a day after the 14th, we gathered 45 of us to put together the donated food and lunch items into lunch bags. On the 14th, from 9 AM until 11 or so, Tricia Buckman and her friends assembled the 200 dozen Christmas cookies into decorated bags. The ladies used ribbons to attach a Christmas tree note (made by the religious education classes) on each bag. In the end we had many, many bags of cookies, enough to send extra bags on to Beacon House to share at the lunch that day.

Blessings to all in the knowledge that hundreds of our brothers and sisters in Baltimore and in Frederick will realize just a little bit more that they are not alone.
We also sent woolen blankets to the homeless outside Holy Redeemer church and school in Washington DC. We have more to take to Baltimore in January... thanks to Bob Elam.

In January we hope to also provide a chapstick for each person in the lunch bags, so if you are able to donate a few please remember that you can drop them off outside Ted's office A105 in the religious education wing....... See you then!!!!!

October brilliance

The brilliance of many hands and hearts reflected in this picture... 500 lunches, 75 extra sandwiches, many notes of encouragement, 500 bottles of water, all sent out to Baltimore and Frederick with love from the 43 caring souls. Many others sent their gifts of Capri Suns, meat, cheese, lunch bags, napkins, mayo and mustard, bread and loaves, fruit cups, desserts and snacks... So the brilliant colors of autumn did show last Saturday.. in St Michael's hall...
Join us if you are able, in November on the 17th at 8 A.M. See you then!

October 20th Lunchmaking

An update on what we need for this Saturday:
200 fruitcups or pieces of fruit
35 Lbs of lunch meat
450 desserts
420 snacks
500 sandwich bags
500 spoons

We have donations and commitments for the following:
500 drinks
500 bottled waters
300 fruit cups
20 lbs of lunch meat
55 loaves of bread
500 mayo and mustard packets
500 cheese slices
500 lunch bags
500 napkins

If you are able to donate any of the above needed items please contact: ted4youth@comcast.net

September Lunches

September 12th update!
We just received 500 dessert cups! Please check into snacks, meat and fruitcups... For September 15th... hope to see you there! Also check out the previous post for other items.....

September lunches

Greetings to all who support our ministry of Lunches for Those in Need!
Today September 12th we still need the following:
500 Desserts
450 Snacks
300 Fruit portions... applesauce, fruitcups or whole fruit
40 lbs of Lunch meat
10 loaves of bread

We have donors for the following:
500 Capri Suns
500 Bottles of water
200 Fruit cups
50 Snacks
10 lbs of lunch meat
500 Slices of Cheese
500 Spoons
500 Lunch bags
500 Napkins
500 mayonaise packets
500 mustard packets
500 Sandwich bags

If you are able to donated any of the above needed items, please email ted4youth@comcast.net with the quantity you will donate.... or post a comment on this blog.. Thank you so much for your love and compassion for those in need.

This Saturday the 16th of June

well, this Saturday will be upon us soon enough and we still have some needs. aside from the promised drinks that show up on Thursday we are still in need of
370 fruit cups
500 desserts
48 loaves of bread
34 lbs of lunch meat
450 spoons
and we need one or two drivers to Beans and Bread in Baltimore, unless a driver shows up who can take 20 bags of 20 lunches and 400 bottles of water.
If you are on the mailing list and would like to donate any of this or deliver to Baltimore, please contact Susan Woodward at sbwoodward@comcast.net...
Thank you so much and pray for those who are doing a mission trip to Jamaica!!!