I have good news and bad news to report to you this morning. On the bad side, I freaked my back out at the Food Bank on Saturday and have been in bed for 3 days. What an experience, never before a problem with the back. Hoping for quick recovery.
On the good news side of things. Lyle Bailey and his brother David brought 200 cases of fresh vegetables to the food bank Saturday. This went over very well as you can imagine. Big thanks goes out to Lyle and David. David drove the vegetables from North Carolina where he has founded a ministry of serving the poor with food collected from participating farms. We are looking at ways that we can partner with David for the future.
Finally, we received a gift of $25,000 last week. This is awesome and terrific given that our goals this year included raising funds to support the food bank. Our target was $25,000. Unbelievable. LaSheita and Antoine were so appreciative as this came at just the right time to support additional food purchases and contribute to the furnace project. LaSheita will be providing us monthly accounting of funds dispersed from this funding.
Lastly, in discussions about how our Partnership can further serve the food bank, we have been asked to consider taking the fourth Saturday during July and August and be the primary workers that week. We will have help from Raul and Walter, but basically we will need 6 workers each week including set up, registration and hand out. Please consider who we should invite for this service, of course, including our selves.
Pretty good week for the team,
Andy
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