Manna Update - April 2010

Many thanks to all who are keeping our little food pantry alive:

· Our tireless volunteers

o The people we never see

o The ones who load and unload the food

o The ones who write the checks

o The ones who setup, tear-down, cleanup

o The ones who encourage

o The ones who cook

o The ones who pray

· Faith Building Missions

o Came to our site, signed up, called, purchased, cooked and served – 200 fish dinners for Easter!

· Ron & Wilberta D.

o Ron and Wilberta are only here for a few months each year, but they leave an enormous impact.

o They spearheaded food and volunteer drives at Walgreens, Newcomers, Westport, and Closer Walk UMC

o Ron also was the volunteer coordinator for the Thanksgiving Dinner last year

o In his “spare” time, Ron and Wilberta delivered bread to the Leland Family Resource and Senior Centers.

· Fred Rose and Great Priced Furniture

o Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. – Malachi 3:4

· Walgreens

o Allowed us to place information and collection boxes in 11 area stores for the month of March

o Thank you Stew and all the store managers

· Westport Community

o Homeowners provided time and energy to collect many hundreds of dollars and pounds of goods

· Magnolia Greens Social Committee

o This group CONSISTENTLY comes through in our time of need.

· New Comers of North Brunswick

o Special thanks to this group for their new commitment

· Curves of Leland

o Cathy G. provided a fund raising opportunity as part of their membership drive for the month of March

o Many thanks to you and your members.

· Brunswick Family Assistance

o Thank you for your continued support and use of resources

· All of the area Churches

o Thank you for your prayers of support and your physical support

o This is a “fishes and loaves” ministry that depends on the hands of Lord and we give Him all the Glory.

Opportunity:

For the Walgreens project, we invested in a dozen simple kiosks.
They serve for both information and food collection.

If you would be able to place one in a high traffic area, monitor and collect the food, we are looking for you.

Meetings:

Manna meetings have been cut to one day a month – the Monday before the food distribution at Noon.

Volunteers:

Please consider coming and helping on food distribution days.

We are specifically needing help with USDA Commodities.

Upcoming Food Distributions (9am – 11am):

· April 17, 2010

· May 19, 2010 – USDA Commodities

· May 22, 2010

· June 19, 2010

· July 21, 2010 – USDA Commodities

· July 24, 2010

· August 21, 2010

Links:

Food drive details - http://vfwbc.org/FoodDrive.dsp

Food distribution - http://vfwbc.org/FoodDistribution.dsp

Pray:

Please continue to pray for the people in our area and that we can all reach out in a special way when we see and understand their needs.

His servant,

Pastor Jay

Victory Free Will Baptist Church
9835 Wayne St NE
Leland, NC 28451

http://vfwbc.org

Email: Pastor@vfwbc.org

Twitter: http://twitter.com/PastorJMerritt

Jay Merritt