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Feeding Ministries 2008:
Feed Your
Neighbor
Monthly food collection for GUM food bank. Help feed the
hungry when you shop!
NEW Feed Your Neighbor Information!
For the past five years the Food Bank has experienced a tremendous
increase in the need for emergency food. The ranks of the hungry more
and more include single mothers stuck in low-wage jobs, married couples
who cannot keep up with soaring housing costs, and able-bodied people
who cannot find jobs. These people and many others who find themselves
temporarily unable to provide food for their families benefit from
Greensboro Urban Ministries’ Emergency Assistance Program. Our
congregation has been asked to help by pledging specific items to fill
grocery bags for this important program.
In response, we have committed to provide canned fruit and peanut
butter (18 ounces preferred) on a monthly basis. Please consider
picking up an additional can or jar each time you visit the grocery
store. There are drop off spots throughout the church. Each month the
food will be collected and taken to Urban Ministries by a member of our
outreach ministry team. We are hoping that our focus on two items will help us all remember to…..Feed Our
Neighbor!
Greensboro Urban
Ministry Spring & Fall Food Drives
Volunteers solicit food donations at a local grocery store.
Mobile Meals
Volunteers deliver meals to senior citizens the second Tuesday
of each month.
Saturday
Breakfasts for Weaver House Residents of Greensboro Urban Ministry
Volunteers work with volunteers from Believers Missionary
Baptist church to prepare and serve breakfast on the 4th
Saturday of each month to the homeless residents of Weaver House at
Greensboro Urban Ministry. WMSUMC volunteers also provide the devotional
and musical entertainment every other month, switching with the
volunteers from Believer’s Missionary Baptist Church.
“Turkey & Fixin’s”
Thanksgiving Food Drive
WMSUMC congregation members donate food and “turkey bucks” (money to
purchase turkeys) to provide 300 local families in need with all the
food they need to prepare their own Thanksgiving meal, including a
turkey. The food is distributed at WMSUMC on the Day of Sharing (the
Saturday before Thanksgiving).
For more information, and to learn how YOU can be a part of this ministry, contact the Outreach Ministry office at 336-275-4587, vm 16, or email Outreach Ministry.
This page was last updated on January 20, 2008