MWPC current activities locally (per 1/10/2019 conversation with Jill B., Serve chair)
- Reconfirmed Hunger as our Signature Ministry
- SEM Food Pantry
- continue Pantry Shelf
- new location?
- Mobile Food Pantry
- Mt. Washington School
- annual donation for PowerPacks (42 kids) – not hands-on packing or delivery anymore!
- expect their students to give back in some way (autism unit kids assemble/hand out the food)
- school administrators are reluctant to ask for too much! (Backpack, PowerPack, snacks in classroom, individual family emergency needs, )
- Jill sits on Mt. Washington School Partner Board
- unsuccessful getting their families to Mobile Food Pantry (0 of PowerPack families came to MWPC with special invitation; 15 came when did Mobile Food Pantry held at Mt. Washington School;)
- Eileen Hayes – Resource Director “do you think SEM Food Pantry would do a ‘little pantry’ at MWPC site?” http://mapping.littlefreepantry.org/ – – special food distribution on a periodic basis like we did at Trick or Treat. Do with GA, Turpin Key Club, PPS, Session, …
- Goal – with SEM gone, we haven’t forgotten…; not solving the entire problem;
- Actions – involve people even if it’s not as efficient…
- Community Meal
- Inter-generational effort
- all the PowerPacks are filled at Freestore Foodbank?
- If focus on children
- how do you find them?
- Mt. Washington School
- focus on family but available for all?
- how do you find them?