Hi Team –This week your Stroudwater Food Pantry we served 40 families, providing groceries to a total of 134 people.  5 new families joined the pantry.

Our supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 1,707 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Adam, Anna, Anne, Autumn, Ellen, Jean, Laura, Lois, Michael C, Mike H, Nina, Rena and myself.

What’s Happening at SFP:

• Spectrum Communications blessed your Stroudwater Food Pantry with a $1,000 donation this week!  Since our beginning, Spectrum (formally Time Warner Cable) has been a terrific partner with us in helping to meet the needs of the meal insecure in the greater Portland area.  They just concluded a large food drive for us in November.  Their financial donation will go a long way in helping support our 2018 costs for food.  Thank you Spectrum Communications!
• Adam is continuing to provide our leftover Sunday food to a motel where (mostly) homeless people live temporarily, and where the food can be shared among the residents.  He took 4 of our turkey dinners there during Thanksgiving so the entire motel could all share in a Thanksgiving dinner.
• We will be giving away our Christmas Dinner baskets on Friday 12/22 at 1:00.  Our Christmas dinner distribution is a much smaller effort than Thanksgiving, we usually try to target families who could not or did not get a Thanksgiving dinner basket.  Please reach out to Adam or I if you are interested in helping out with the Christmas Dinner Basket distribution.

Thank you, and Merry Christmas!    — Doug

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Hi Team –It was a busy week at your Stroudwater Food Pantry, on Sunday we served 47 families, providing groceries to a total of 142 people.  6 new families joined the pantry.

Our supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 2,043 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anna, Anne, Autumn, Jean, Karlene, Lois, Melissa, Michael C, Mike H, Tammy, and myself.

We closed out November and the Thanksgiving season processing and distributing a staggering 7.7 tons of food; as we enter into the Christmas season I wish to express my heartfelt appreciation for the many Stroudwater Pantry volunteers who this year dedicated themselves to the mission of, “To do the work of Jesus by feeding those in need and reducing the number of food insecure within the Greater Portland Community.  “For I was hungry and you fed me…”   Thank you, and God Bless you!     — Doug

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Hi Everyone –It was a busy week at your Stroudwater Food Pantry, on Sunday we served 40 families, providing groceries to a total of 114 people.  5 new families joined the pantry.                                           What happened this week:

• On Tuesday we concluded our three week food drive with Charter Communications.  Charter has been a terrific partner with us since our inception, and on Tuesday Lois and I drove over to their offices to pick up their donation.  This year they collected 778 units of food that weighed in at 513 lbs.  Thank you Charter Communications for your great donation and long term commitment to Stroudwater Food Pantry!
• Our Church Family Donation for this past Sunday was jelly, and we received 73 lbs. this week!  Thank you Church Family for your continued support of your Stroudwater Food Pantry!
• Our 3 Friday supermarket pickups totaled 3,268 lbs., our biggest supermarket donation in the history of the Stroudwater Food Pantry!  Combined with the donations above, the amount of food processed was 3,845, nearly 2 tons of food!
• This week’s volunteers included Adam, Anne, Autumn, Dot, Ellen, Jenn, Jean, Lois, Michael C., Mike H., Rena, and Steve.  Thank you all who volunteered this week!

          —  Doug

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Hi Team –This past weekend was the busiest ever in the history of your Stroudwater Food Pantry!   A 3-Day Weekend in Review:​

• On Friday we kicked off our 3^rd Annual Thanksgiving Dinner giveaway, and by Sunday afternoon we had distributed 100 Thanksgiving dinners (turkeys and side dishes) so local families who did not have a holiday meal could celebrate Thanksgiving together.
• 75 of the Thanksgiving dinner baskets (boxes) were donated to us by Cheverus Catholic High School.  This is the third Thanksgiving they have donated turkey dinners to us.  We built an additional 25 dinner baskets of our own; 12 with Turkeys donated from our long-time friend and benefactor Mike Curran, the rest of the turkeys where either donated by church family or purchased by SFP.  Thank you Cheverus High School and Mike Curran!
• This weekend concluded the Maine Medical Center “Stuff the Shuttle Bus” food drive.  The food drive was initiated and managed by Chad Spickel, and was run during National Radiologic Technology Week.  It took Chad several weeks to secure the necessary authorizations and to coordinate within the groups of Radiology at Maine Med; the drive itself lasted a week and turned out to be the biggest single food drive in the history of the Stroudwater Food Pantry!  It yielded 771lbs. of food, a remarkable achievement!  Thank you Chad!!
• Our Church Family Donation for the week was peanut butter, and we received 62 lbs. if it!  Thank you Church Family for your weekly generosity! J
• All of the above, plus our regular Friday supermarket food pickups, yielded a staggering 6,329 lbs.; that’s more than 3 tons of food received, processed and distributed this weekend!!
• The Pantry Prayer Ministry has proven to be a blessing and physical healing for clients seeking prayer on Sundays.   On Sunday clients were healed and one client made a decision for Christ, praise the Lord!
• On Sunday we served 47 families, providing groceries to a total of 150 people.  5 new families joined the pantry.

The volunteers who made this incredible 3-day weekend happen included Adam, Alex, Angie, Anna, Autumn, Pastor Bill, Chad, Dawn, Debbie S., Ellen, Jean, Lois, Melissa, Michael C., Michelle, Mike H., Rena, Steve, and myself.  Thank you, God Bless you all, and may all of you have a  Happy Thanksgiving !!

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Doug Horner

Hi Team –Yesterday was a busy Sunday at your Stroudwater Food Pantry, we served 45 families, providing groceries to a total of 138 people.  6 new families joined the pantry.

Our supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 3,091 lbs.; that’s one and a half tons of food!  This week’s volunteers included Anna, Anne, Lois, Karlene, Autumn, Michael C, Steve, Adam, Bill & Dee, Mike H, Ellen, Angie and myself.   What’s going on at SFP:​

• Yesterday your Stroudwater Food Pantry kicked off a new food campaign, asking each family in our church to bring in one needed food item per week.  The food item for the week is announced the previous Sunday.  This Sunday we collected 167 lbs. of food!  Thank you very much to everyone who brought pasta for the pantry!
• SFP is planning a happy Thanksgiving for families who cannot afford one.  Cheverus High School has pledged to provide us 75 Thanksgiving dinner baskets complete with turkeys and all the trimmings.  Like last year, we are planning to build our own dinner baskets as well, and this year are targeting to distribute 100 Thanksgiving dinners to families who otherwise would not have one.  We have already signed up 33 families to receive them; if you know of a family who would welcome a dinner basket, please let me or anyone in the pantry know.
• The Pantry Prayer Ministry has proven to be a blessing and physical healing for clients seeking prayer on Sundays.   This week a client made a decision for Christ, praise the Lord!  Yesterday the Prayer Ministry was staffed with three volunteers;  if you have a heart to pray for others, see Adam or myself to join us in an opportunity to minister to the spiritual needs of our community.
• To learn more about your Stroudwater Food Pantry, follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stroudwaterfoodpantry/

  —  Doug

Hi Team –It was a busy week this week at your Stroudwater Food Pantry, we served 42 families, providing groceries to a total of 135 people.  9 new families joined the pantry this week.

Our supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 1,328 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anna, Melissa, Lois, Karlene, Autumn, Rena, Michael C, Steve, Adam, Angie and myself.

What’s going on at SFP:​

• Your Stroudwater Food Pantry is planning a happy Thanksgiving for families who cannot afford one.  Cheverus High School has pledged to provide us 75 Thanksgiving dinner baskets complete with turkeys and all the trimmings.  Like last year, we are planning to build our own dinner baskets as well, and this year are targeting to distribute 100 Thanksgiving dinners to families who otherwise would not have one.  We have already signed up 33 families to receive them; if you know of a family who would welcome a dinner basket, please let me or anyone in the pantry know.
• The Pantry Prayer Ministry has proven to be a blessing and physical healing for clients seeking prayer on Sundays.   This week 2 clients made a decision for Christ, praise the Lord!  If you have a heart to pray for others, see Adam or myself to join us in an opportunity to minister to the spiritual needs of our community.

To stay up to date with what is going on at your Stroudwater Food Pantry, follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stroudwaterfoodpantry/

—   Doug

Hi Team –My apologies for not publishing a report last week, Angie and I have been away.  This report covers the weeks of October 8^th & 15^th.  During the past two weeks your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 65 families, providing groceries to a total of 214 people.  4 new families joined the pantry.

During the past two weeks our supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 2,8561 lbs.  Our volunteers included Anne, Lois, Wayne and Martha, Karlene, Autumn, Rena, Michael C, Steve, Shelley, Rick, Ellen, Tammy, Mike Halkiu, and Adam.

        What’s going on at your Stroudwater Food Pantry:​

• Coming this Saturday!!  Our second annual Paws for the Pantry dog walk for hunger is October 21.  Registration starts at 10:00am at Payson’s Park (at the Back Cove) in Portland.  You can find more information and pre-register on our website at  https://stroudwaterfoodpantry.com/dog/,  or on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/stroudwaterfoodpantry/  Like us on Face book to stay in the loop for pantry activities, and remember to share our Paws for the Pantry event with your friends!
• Coming this Sunday!! Our next Pantry meeting is Sunday 10/22, 11:15 after the church service, in the upstairs Annex meeting room.  If you are curious about the Stroudwater Food Pantry, this is a great opportunity to find out what we do!  We will be talking about accomplishments so far this year, upcoming events, and volunteers needed to support new and ongoing activities.
• The Pantry Prayer Ministry has proven to be a blessing and physical healing for clients seeking prayer on Sundays.   During the past two weeks 7 clients made a decision for Christ, praise the Lord!  If you have a heart to pray for others, see Adam or myself to join us in an opportunity to minister to the spiritual needs of our community.

—  Doug

Hi Team –This past Sunday your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 45 families, providing groceries to a total of 129 people.  9 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 2,491 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anne, Lois,Karlene, Jean, Autumn, Rena, Michael C, Steve, Adam, Melissa, Shelley, Angie and myself.

What’s going on at the Pantry:​

• Save the date! – Our second annual Paws for the Pantry dog walk for hunger is October 21.  Registration starts at 10:00am at Payson’s Park (at the Back Cove) in Portland.  You can find more information and pre-register on our website at  https://stroudwaterfoodpantry.com/dog/,  or on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/stroudwaterfoodpantry/  Like us on Face book to stay in the loop for pantry activities, and remember to share our Paws for the Pantry event with your friends!
• ​Save the date! – Our next Pantry meeting is Sunday 10/22, 11:15 after the church service, in the upstairs Annex meeting room.  If you are curious about the Stroudwater Food Pantry, this is a great opportunity to find out what we do!  We will be talking about accomplishments so far this year, upcoming events, and volunteers needed to support new and ongoing activities.
• The Pantry Prayer Ministry has proven to be a blessing and healing for our clients on Sundays.   This week one person made a decision for Christ, praise the Lord!  If you have a heart to pray for others, see Adam or myself to join us in an opportunity to minister to the spiritual needs of our community.

—  Doug

Hi Team –This past Sunday your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 44 families, providing groceries to a total of 112 people.  6 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 2,511 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anne, Karlene, Rena, Michael C, Steve, Adam, Ellen, Mike Halkiu and myself.

What’s going on at the Pantry:

• Over the summer we saw a decline in meat that caused us to draw down all our frozen meat reserves.  Our recent addition of a 4^th supermarket pickup on Fridays has helped us replenish our frozen stores considerably; this week alone we processed 1.25 tons of food, and Praise the Lord our backup freezers are now bulging!
• Now that the My Place Teen Center in Westbrook has concluded their summer program, this week we resumed our monthly meat donations to them.  We delivered 47 lbs. of pork roasts in addition to our weekly donations of fresh fruit.
• Save the date! – Our second annual Paws for the Pantry dog walk for hunger is Saturday October 21.  Registration starts at 10:00am at Payson’s Park (at the Back Cove) in Portland.  You can find more information and pre-register on our website at  https://stroudwaterfoodpantry.com/dog/,  or on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/stroudwaterfoodpantry/  Like us on Face book to stay in the loop for pantry activities, and remember to share our Paws for the Pantry event with your friends!
• Save the date! – Our next Pantry meeting is Sunday 10/22, 11:15 after the church service, in the upstairs Annex meeting room.  If you are curious about the Stroudwater Food Pantry, this is a great opportunity to find out what we do!  We will be talking about accomplishments so far this year, upcoming events, and volunteers needed to support new and ongoing activities.
• The Pantry Prayer Ministry has proven to be a blessing and healing for our clients on Sundays.   This week Mike Halkiu joined Adam in praying for people who asked for prayer.  If you have a heart to pray for others, see Adam or myself to join us in an opportunity to minister to the spiritual needs of our community.  Thank you Mike for joining us this week!   — Doug

Hi Team –This past Sunday your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 30 families, providing groceries to a total of 82 people.  4 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 2,416 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anne, Karlene, Rena, Autumn W, Michael C, Steve, Adam, Shelley, Angie and myself.

This was our second week of four supermarket food pickups; our new, second Shaw’s pickup has gotten off to a good start.  We picked up and processed 1.2 tons of food, and it has helped us address the noticeable drop off in meat donations we saw in the month of August.  Managing four supermarkets is a lot of work, so at some point in time we anticipate returning to three pickups on Fridays, but for now it addresses an immediate need.  Our prayer ministry continues to be a blessing to clients who seek prayer and healing, and this week one client made a decision for Christ, praise the Lord!  — Doug