News
You Can Use Prepared by Steve Tindall
For
Your Church Newsletter
From
Lutheran Community Services December
2012
Editors: This information is prepared for church
newsletter editors, secretaries and pastors. Your help in getting the word out
is appreciated and will help LCS achieve its mission of “Sharing God’s
blessings by helping others in need.” Comments about timing or content are
welcome. Contact Steve Tindall (stindall@lcsde.org).
302 654 8886.
Help
Everyone Have a Holiday Meal ...
Start
a Food Drive Today!
Demand for food assistance has been so great that we are
planning to call on year-end food drives to help keep our food programs going. Last
year (2011), we helped 69,400 people with emergency food assistance. By
year-end 2012, we expect to help nearly 84,000 people. That is a 20 percent increase in food clients. More
food clients means we need more food. We
didn’t budget for this kind of increase, but rather than scale back our food
programs we focused on ways to obtain food without cost. That’s a mighty tall
order, but we are hoping that food drives will help fill it. This is especially
important during the holiday season – from now until New Year’s – when we are
the recipient of large and small food drives, and when many folks are looking
for ways to give to and help the needy families among us.
Would you consider conducting a food drive? It doesn’t take
a whole lot of effort to run a food drive. First, identify who you would appeal
to. Think beyond your church. You can start a food drive with your neighbors,
your family, your work place, your gym, school, club or scouting group. We have
a detailed guide which explains exactly how to conduct a successful food drive,
and we would love to share it with you. We also have bags to fill up and lists
of items that we need the most – things like tuna fish, peanut butter, and
rice. If you are interested in starting a food drive, contact LCS Volunteer
Coordinator Cher Frampton at 302 654
8886 x107 or via email at cframpton@lcsde.org.
Click and Save/Share Invite with Friends!
Snapshot of a Housing Client
An elderly couple who have been homeowners (with a mortgage)
for 15 years are living on a small limited income and raising a niece and
nephew. The husband is preparing for a lung transplant. While all this was
going on, their car broke down and they got behind in their mortgage. They
applied to LCS for housing assistance and we were able to help them with the
money they needed to pay their mortgage, avoid homelessness, and remain in
their home.
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