Mission 1. The collection begins!

The boxes are out in the atrium.  I hope you are beginning to gather your food for the Food Bank.
Sunday October 30, Diane Riley, Director of Advocacy of the Community Food Bank will talk to us about Hunger in America.

I have started shopping for food and for donations to the Food Bank.  I bought some Peter Pan Peanut Butter in a plastic jar, (remember no glass jars) and grape jelly also in a plastic jar.  You can tell the jar is plastic if it gives when you push against it.  The Peter Pan Peanut butter had a code on it for a contribution from Conagra for Child Hunger Ends Here.  I went online but their contribution had ended in August but that also means I bought the peanut butter before the price hike!
I went to the website of www.childhungerendshere.com and I found out a lot of information about childhood Hunger. It also links with Feeding America which also has a lot of information about hunger including a call to reach out to Congress just as the UCC Mission 1 site does.

The third component of Mission 1 is donation.  It can be a donation by the Board of World Fellowship to represent all of us.  But it can also be a donation of money that you make when you buy food, which I did recently.  Look for the colored Community Food bank cards that are at the checkout.  They are for $1.00, $2.00 and $5.00 denominations.  You will never miss that money and you can do it year round instead of once a year.  Hungry people don't suffer hunger only one time a year so we should make sure the Food Bank has food year round.

There are other programs beside the Food Bank that feed the hungry.  Some groups are soup kitchens or food and clothing distributes like FISH in Dunellen.  I found out recently that the food pantry of FISH is low.

Shoprite of Hillsborough  New Jersey the town where I live is collecting money through
 Partners in Caring  Fighting Hunger in Your Neighborhood.  Mine is not the only Shoprite that is participating in this program. Other grocery stores like Stop & Shop have wipe out hunger programs as well

So let's make this a year round event!