'Feed the hungry’ is what Jesus told us to do!
Many in the UK are now going hungry - for some it is now a question of ‘heat or food?’, pay the mortgage or food?’. Some children are going to school hungry. We can help!
The foodbank for Yate, Chipping
Sodbury and surrounding area provides emergency, nutritionally balanced,
non-perishable meals for 3 days to those people in short term crisis. This can be provided two or three times to
allow longer term fixes to be established by the appropriate services. It is an invaluable service, removing people's worry of feeding their families whilst their problems are sorted out.
The crisis can be the result of many
things such as benefit delay/withdrawal, separation, unexpected bills (car
breakdown, heating failure or even just the winter fuel bill), debt,
bereavement, redundancy, etc.
A box will be permanently in the Church Porch for donations of TINNED, DRIED AND UNPERISHABLE FOOD WELL WITHIN IT’S SELL BY DATE. This will be taken to a ‘foodbank’ in Station Road, Yate where a specially trained team will sort and distribute it.
Could we have volunteers please to transport the food to Yate either on a Tuesday 2-4pm or Friday 10am-12 noon. Please contact Pat Mallin or Claire Westbury if you are able to help.
Click here for further details of the foods required or go to the foodbank website at http://yatechippingsodbury.foodbank.org.uk/
May God Bless this work in this parish. Feeding the hungry was work our Lord took on himself and we as his followers must do the same. Well done.
ReplyDeleteDeacon John.