Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Friends from Asbury United Methodist Church Help Out in the Pantry!


Our friends from Asbury United Methodist Church (Germantown) came by to shelve food and pack boxes yesterday afternoon. Despite the heat and humidity (it's finally summer in Maryland weather again!), they worked hard for two hours and got the job done. Thanks, ladies!! (From left to right in picture above: Vernice E. Carney, Jr., Amesha Carney, Angela Tolliver, and Leslie Tolliver).

Monday, July 20, 2009

Messiah Lutheran Camp Collection, Mystery PB and Other Happenings

Some friends from Messiah Lutheran Church dropped off some food collected by the attendees of this year's camp. Lots of good stuff, including cereal, peanut butter and spagetti sauce, hurray! There was a "mystery dropoff" of peanut butter and jelly that showed up recently, too... Our guess is that it's from longtime supporter Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Gaithersburg. They collect PB and J every summer. Came in just in time, too, since the peanut butter we ordered from Shoppers didn't come in on Saturday!

Speaking of Saturday, thanks go to Karen Stohr for helping us pick up the food that DID come in!

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

First Pickup a Success!

Germantown HELP had its first "pickup event" yesterday at Trinity UMC and it went great! Thanks to our new volunteers, Abigail Sawyer, Gabriella Levy and Jennifer & Elizabeth Paul, the bags were packed, hauled to the pickup area and distributed efficiently. Packing the perishable items together easily kept everything cold for two hours, since a lot of it is frozen. The big paper bags left over from last year's Holiday Giving Project, however, are somewhat prone to ripping; we will have to get some large plastic bags.

Yesterday, we also hauled 15 bags of nonperishable food to Emergency Services in Germantown, to distribute directly to their clients; we hope they don't have too many problems with those bags, too. Thanks to Abby Majane for helping and the Upcounty Center for use of the carts, phew.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Latest news...

Judy Brodbeck very kindly picked up the food collected by Victory Christian Church last week, thanks to both! We will be having our first food pickup today at Trinity United Methodist Church, so it will come in handy. We're excited to have some new volunteers joining us for the pickup, too!