Good Shepherd

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Every year at Thanksgiving we ask people to donate reusable shopping bags filled with food and a $25 gift card for needy families. We contact Social Workers and school nurses in our local schools and ask them to see that needy families receive these bags for Thanksgiving. This year we gave them 75 bags.

Our Youth baked 25 pies and gave them to our shut-ins.

We have a monthly food ingathering for non-perishable food items which are taken to Coordinating Council of Health and Welfare in Warminster. This food cupboard is made up of volunteers whose purpose is to give emergency help to needy families in the areas of Bucks and Montgomery Counties surrounding Warminster. They are supported by area churches, service organizations, businesses and individuals.

Over the years, we have provided 4,000 to 5,000 meals a year to Aid for Friends. We also provide them with 60 to 90 breakfast bags a month.

We collect infant formula which is donated to the Bucks County Health Department for their Maternal-Child Home Visiting Program to help needy families.

Once a month several of our members participate in serving food to hungry and hurting people in the Kensington section of Philadelphia through "Cast Your Cares Ministry". This is done with some other churches and sometimes we provide the food and sometimes we just help serve.

Judy Smith