Weekly Update from Mary
Friday, October 25, 2024
New: THRIVENT ACTION TEAM EVENT
SPL Hunger Warriors invite you and your friends to join in assisting the 56 residents of Madison Commons Group Home at 8001 Madison Avenue in Cleveland to enhance their quality of living by providing special Thanksgiving care bags. These precious bags will contain personal care products, all types of snacks, and encouraging Christian literature. This Madison Commons Group Home provides homes for people who have experienced homelessness. By creating these precious bags for Madison Commons Group Home residents, we are following Jesus Command, “Love your neighbor as yourself” Mark 12:31 (NIV).
The special caring bags will include toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, shampoo, deodorant, soap, cookie packs, apples, tangelos, cracker packs, candy, chips & pretzel snack bags, granola bars, pudding, applesauce, fruit snacks, Rice Krispie treats, and Christian literature that builds a stronger faith.
Bring your donations to St. Paul Lutheran Church at 27993 Detroit Road in Westlake or drop off at the Levtzow’s garage (Southwest corner of Dover Center & Bassett Roads – 2454 Dover Center with driveway off Bassett). We hope to gather items on or before Monday, November 11. Thank you for joining us in this exciting Service Thrivent Action Team Event.
3 Additional Thrivent Action Team Events
SPL Hunger Warriors are blessed to have three additional THRIVENT ACTION TEAM EVENTS in the month of November. These include St. Paul Lutheran’s amazing Underwear and Sock Drive for Redeemer Hunger & Crisis Center on W. 30th St. in Cleveland which ends the first week in December so that shopping for missing sizes can be done with Thrivent dollars.
In addition, a Thrivent Thanksgiving Food Drive for Immanuel Lutheran Neighborhood Food Program on Scranton Road in Cleveland is being held during the first week of November. Immanuel needs cereal, variety packs of oatmeal, wide noodles, cans of stew, vegetables, peaches, SPAM, chicken breasts, corned beef, and jars of peanut butter and grape jam.
The third additional THRIVENT ACTION TEAM EVENT is the Thanksgiving/Christmas gathering of cookies, apples, crackers, candy, chip snack bags, granola bars, fruits and gifts for Samuel L. Felton Jr. Valor Home Veteran residents in Lorain.
Donate Food
St. Paul Lutheran Hunger Warriors still need Food Donations throughout the summer months; so, let us all try to bring one or two food items when we are able to attend Church this summer: peanut butter, GRAPE JAM, Stew, Corned Beef, WIDE NOODLES, tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, canned vegetables, CANNED SLICED PEACHES, CEREAL, oatmeal variety packs, SPAM, canned Chicken Breast, RAMEN NOODLES, snacks for children. We need the above food items by Thursday, June 20, for the Immanuel Hunger Program Delivery. Bless you for putting the needs of others as a priority.
SPL Hunger Warriors needs food item donations. Please click the button below to see what else needs to be donated!
SPL Hunger Warriors/Hunger Ministry/Mary’s Food Friends – Campaigns in 2024
- January – Immanuel, Redeemer, Trinity
- February – Parma, Trials For Hope, Church of the Ascension
- March – Calvary Lutheran, New Covenant, St. John Nottingham Food Programs
- April – St. Philips Our Daily Bread
- May – Lorain Cooperative Ministry & Redeemer & Immanuel
- June - Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland – 36th Annual Walk for Hunger – Zoo
- July – Lakewood Community Service Center & North Ridgeville Community Care
- August – Westlake Assistance Program & Faith Lutheran
- September – Parma Hunger & Our Savior Mayfield Heights
- October – Royal Redeemer & Zion Painesville & Christians In Action Olmsted Falls
- November - Redeemer, Immanuel, & Trinity
- December – Christ/Our Savior, & 300 each Center (Which Means that we need $7900 in December)
Pray over these Thrivent Action Team events for God to guide you in supporting as you are blessed. As Isaiah shares in Isaiah 58:10-11 (NIV):
10 “and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
11 The Lord will guide you always;
He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.” God’s Blessings Never Cease!
