MWPC current hunger-related activities locally

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?