Dear Friends,
As many of you may remember in the past, during Thanksgiving time, our church was fortunate enough to receive approximately fifteen boxes of food for those in need from the local fire department. These boxes were filled with food and decorated by our local elementary school children. As this is no longer offered, our Outreach Ministry is going to recreate this yearly event in the following manner.
- We have purchased fifteen bags that will be decorated by Ms. Nicole's VPK.
- We are going to have a labeled table set up in the back of the church for food collection from our parishioners.
- We will fill each bag with the following food:
- 2 boxes of stuffing
- 2 instant gravy packets
- 2 boxes of instant potatoes
- 2 instant drink packets
- packaged small desserts such as cookies, etc.
- We are going to also have a collection of $20.00 gift cards to purchase turkey meat or other perishable goods. These will be given out with each bag and a blessing card from our church. Any extra food will be given to the various organizations that our committee volunteers with.
See below for food suggestions:
If your last name begins with A B C D E F, please donate 2 boxes of stuffing.
If your last name begins with G H I J K L, please donate 2 instant gravy packets and 2 boxes of instant potatoes.
If your last name begins with M N O P Q R, please donate 2 packets of instant drinks to mix with water.
If your last name begins with S T U V W X Y Z, please donate packaged cookies or other desserts.
Blessing Card Prayer stanza for Thanksgiving from the book, Hour by Hour portions of which can be found in The Book of Common Prayer: Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love.
Thank you so much for your generosity from the Outreach Ministry!
Stephanie Lee-Harris, Ph.D.
VITAS CPE Chaplain
954-254-0620
Parish Office
(954) 753-1400