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All the World's a Stage...
What's Your Role?
Write your own script. You may be writing a happy ending for someone in need!
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Pantries struggle with food supply as more people come for assistance.
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One Million Meals in 2009!
Forget the whole red state-blue state thing. We’re talking about the state of hunger—a state so great that Episcopal Community Services now focuses its efforts solely on feeding God’s hungry people in our community.
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They are unemployed, homeless and poor. Many are disabled. Some are “working poor.”
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About 10 percent of area households are “food insecure.” Episcopal Community Services and its Episcopal Hunger Relief Network are building coalitions, bringing together people in the public, private and faith sectors to find solutions for those living in poverty. And those solutions are adding up:
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· Approaching One Million Meals this year!
· 500+ meals daily in the Kansas City Community Kitchen
· 200+ served on Saturdays through Breakfast at St. Paul’s
· More than a dozen hot food programs and parish food pantries on both sides of the state line are engaging volunteers to provide meals, groceries and other support to hungry men, women and children.
· Meals on Wheels sustains homebound seniors.
· BackSnack program brings Episcopal parishes and public schools together with Harvesters to send hungry school-age children home with enough food for the weekend.
Click on the links below to find out more!
Episcopal Hunger Relief Network
Kansas City Community Kitchen
Meals on Wheels
Breakfast at St. Paul's
Contact us!
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A guest of the Kansas City Community Kitchen recently faxed the following handwritten letter to Episcopal Community Services. Just goes to show, you never know whose lives you’ll touch when you extend Christ’s ministry of compassion, service and healing.
I would sincerely like to thank you for your time. The food that you prepare is more than nourishment for the body. Every tray is served with a main course, vegetable, fruit, desert and, most importantly a smile. Knowing that there are people who are willing to take time out of their lives in today’s humanistic society—how can I get on top? Or, what is in it for me?—is an encouragement that the love of Christ is real.
I never thought that I would ever be in a soup kitchen, either eating or helping. My callous heart thought that by giving them a free meal it was doing more harm than good. I was wrong. I found myself in a position of needing a helping hand. The warm, delicious meal satisfied my hunger and kept me moving while job seeking.
I’m proud to say that I’ve found a job and probably won’t need to continue to eat at the church, but my respect and gratitude for the service that you provide to the community will not cease.
This letter is let you know that for every one person that might complain about this or that, there are many more thankful beyond words.
Yours truly,
Matthew M.
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With your support, our programs will serve nearly 1 million meals this year--hot, daily lunches, Saturday breakfasts, community suppers, weekend snacks for school-age children, and armloads of groceries for the people we serve through the Kansas City Community Kitchen, Meals on Wheels, BackSnacks and the pantries and feeding programs of the Episcopal Hunger Relief Network. Click here to donate today.
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