Hi Team –This past Sunday your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 48 families, providing groceries to a total of 137 people.  6 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 1,791 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anne, Karlene, Rena, Autumn W, Michael C, Steve, Adam, Tammy, Shelley, Angie and myself.

We close out August having provided groceries to 218 families, our busiest month so far this year.  This month we were joined by the teenagers from the My Place Teen Center in Westbrook to build 210 bags of food for our Roadside Assistance Program, in support of feeding the homeless.  Additionally, we adapted both our schedule and food donations to accommodate homeless clients who visit the pantry.  Our continued commitment to a prayer and healing ministry resulted in one person making a decision for Christ this month – all this in the month that we celebrated our 2^nd year anniversary.  Praise the Lord for His continued blessing on this ministry, and on the people served by your Stroudwater Food Pantry!  —  Doug

Hi Team – Sorry for the late report for Sunday the 27^th, I have been away this week with very limited access to internet.  This past Sunday your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 44 families, providing groceries to a total of 160 people.  6 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 1,893 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anne, Karlene, Autumn W, Michael C, Steve, Adam, Jenn, Terry, Shelley, and myself.

Most weeks we continue to offer prayers for people who request prayers; this week one person made a decision for Christ, Praise the Lord!  If you have an interest in volunteering for the Stroudwater Food Pantry, either in food distribution or in the prayer ministry, please see me or reply by email, thank you.   —  Doug

Hi Team – This week your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 42 families, providing groceries to a total of 119 people.  5 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 2,043 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anne, Karlene, Autumn W, Rena, Michael C, Steve, Adam, Jenn, Shelley, and myself.

Most weeks we continue to offer prayers for people who request prayers; for personal circumstances, healings, and other needs clients may have, and this service continues to be a blessing to our clients.   This past Sunday a member of our church family, Shelley Johnston, joined us for the first time to help distribute food to our clients.  Thank you Shelley, and welcome aboard!  — Doug

Hi Team – This week your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 44 families, providing groceries to a total of 144 people.  8 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 1,761 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Ann, Karlene, Autumn W, Rena, Michael C, Steve, Adam, Jenn, Laura and myself.

This past weekend we celebrated our 2^nd Year Anniversary of the opening of your Stroudwater Food Pantry!  During those 2 years we received, processed and served 78 tons of food to the Greater Portland community, the equivalent of 390,000 meals provided to people in need of hunger relief.

Thank you church family for your generous contributions!  Thank you outside benefactors and corporate sponsors who continue to support us in a variety of ways!  And especially THANK YOU to everyone who has volunteered in the last two years to pick up, process and put away 78 tons of food, and to all of you who have put the equivalent of 390,000 meals into the hands of those in need outside our doors.  May the Lord’s Blessing be upon you all!  — Doug

Hi Team – This week your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 40 families, providing groceries to a total of 145 people.  4 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 2,268 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Ann, Karlene, Autumn W, Rena, Michael C, Steve, Adam, Jenn, Frank and myself.

During the last couple of weeks your Stroudwater Food Pantry has been serving a homeless person and a homeless couple.  It is not all that often that we serve people who are actually homeless, but we are blessed to be in a position to offer them a meal plan that fits within the limitations of their present circumstances.  Please keep them in your prayers that they find a place to live soon!   —  Doug

Hi Team – It was a very busy week this week as your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 51 families, providing groceries to a total of 188 people, more than any other week so far this year.  11 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 1,727 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Karlene, Autumn W, Michael C, Steve,  Adam, Jenn, Sarah W, Angie and myself.

We close out July as our busiest month so far this year; we picked up, processed and fed 6 tons of food to 605 people.  The enormity of was what accomplished this month was achieved only by the dedicated commitment and compassion of the volunteers of your Stroudwater Food Pantry, without whom there would be no hunger relief ministry.  Your volunteers embody the meaning and Spirit of Matthew 25:35, “For I was hungry, and you feed me.”  Thank you, and God Bless you all!  —  Doug

Hi Team – Your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 35 families this week, for a total of 100 people receiving groceries.  4 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 2,329 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anne, Karlene,  Autumn W, Michael C, Steve,  Adam, Jenn, Tina, Terry and myself.

We had another whopping week processing a high volume of food – 1.1 tons in total, half of which was fresh fruit and vegetables.  This reflects the seasonal highs and lows of our food intake and processing efforts – Praise the Lord for the abundance of food we are blessed with this summer, it is used to good purpose to bless those whom we serve even more!  —  Doug

Hi Team –  Your Stroudwater Food Pantry served 27 families this week, for a total of 95 people receiving groceries.  3 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups, plus church donations and this week’s purchased food yielded 2,258 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anne, Karlene,  Autumn W, Michael C, Steve,  Adam, Jenn, Ellen, Angie and myself.

We had another whopping week processing a high volume of food – 1.1 tons in total.  And prayers continue to be offered for any pantry clients who are interested; yesterday one client made a personal rededication to Christ, praise the Lord!  —  Doug

Hi Team – It was a busy Sunday at your Stroudwater Food Pantry this week, we served 43 families for a total of 132 people receiving groceries.  5 new families joined us this week.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups yielded 2,154 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Karlene, Rena, Autumn W, Michael C, Steve, Jean, Adam, Jenn, Ellen and myself.

The start of July ushered in with a big bang, and not just with Independence Day fireworks.  Our first Friday pickup for the month yielded almost 1.1 tons in supermarket rescue food alone, leaving our three refrigerators and four freezers bulging.  2 days later 43 families reaped the rewards of all that abundance as our volunteers did their very best to ensure our clients walked out the door with a 14 day supply of food; a special Thank You to the Sunday crew who worked hard to care for our clients this week!  Additionally –

Thank you Bill Barrows for fabricating big steel handles for one of our two new U-Boat food carts!  We now have a fleet of carts that enables us to unload our vehicles and move food around inside the church, just like supermarkets do.

And thank you Chad and Jean Spickel for donating the oversized air conditioner you were no longer using!  We now use it to chill down the pantry storage room every Friday through Sunday, to better extend the shelf life of produce and baked goods before distribution on Sunday afternoons.  Thank you All !!  —  Doug

Hi Team – Happy Independence Day!  I think the holiday impacted the pantry this past Sunday, we had only 24 families come in to be served, with a total of 90 people receiving groceries.

Sunday’s supermarket rescue food pickups yielded 1,634 lbs.  This week’s volunteers included Anne, Karlene, Rena, Autumn W, Michael C, Steve, Jean, Adam, Jenn, Laura, Angie and myself.

The month of June was very generous to us; between pickups, purchases and donations it yielded almost 5 tons of food that we processed and distributed to the meal insecure of the greater Portland area.  It was our busiest food processing month so far this year, and special recognition is warranted for the dedicated Friday crews who drove to the supermarkets, hauled food back to the church in their cars, then weighted, sorted, bagged and put it all away in preparation for Sunday distributions.   God Bless You All, and Happy 4^th!  — Doug