Thank you for how you Serve!

Stamp out Hunger!

On Saturday May 10th, the Storehouse is having their annual Post Office Food Drive which is their biggest day of the year. Please see the signup genius below, which is based off of previous years. They primarily need the most help in the afternoon and evening and you do not need to stay the entire time. If you want to help, please take a look at the slots and sign up for one. They will also have lunch, dinner, snacks, and refreshments available.

Storehouse Volunteer Opportunities

If you are interested in any of these volunteer opportunities, please contact

Rylan Renggli rengglirylan@gmail.com

Helping with Drives at the Grocery Stores. This included passing out flyers at the doors or sorting food in the truck. This will be a combination of pet food drives, food drives, and hygiene drives at Safeway, Fred Meyer, Dollar Tree, and possibly Walmart. 

Helping organize and put on fundraising events. This would include work before the event to organize it and helping on the day of to run it. More info to come.

Volunteer Truck Driver. This would be a position that would be a random schedule filling in when we need a truck driver. Adding truck drivers costs money so not everyone who is interested will end up helping. This is just to give me an idea.

Administrative paperwork. This would mostly be entering data

Grant Writer. If anyone has experience and interest in writing grants, let me know

Volunteer Driver for Grocery Rescue. This would be picking up food in your own car mostly on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. This position is not a regular schedule and is a backup for our current drivers.

Our Blessing Box

During these difficult times we are seeing more and more activity at the Blessing Box in our parking lot.  On a daily basis people are donating to the box and taking items as needed.  If you would like to donate you can add non perishable items directly to the box, bring them inside the church lobby and we will restock when needed, or you can make a financial donations to the church and memo them “Blessing Box”.  We are SO grateful for your continued generosity.

Global Ministries

Serve Team Sponsored Charities:

The Storehouse (Covington Food Bank)

Thank you for your continued generosity for so many hurting in our community.

Storehouse helps 100s of families every week. To find out more about how you can help this important ministry in our community. Visit their website. Home | covingtonstorehouse

September 17th 2024- All Church Project, Sorting a large Storehouse Delivery

The Storehouse All Church Project was a success! The project was able to be completed early thanks to all who came out and helped! Thank you everyone for all of your hard work!

Vine Maple Place

Vine Maple Place is always in need. To see their most current needs please see their website at Vine Maple Place – Ending Homelessness in South King County

VINE MAPLE PLACE
HELPING US TO END HOMELESSNESS

Local Homeless Moms and Kids are Hungry! 

As food prices climb and support programs vanish, homeless families are struggling to put food on the table. 

Three Ways to Help:

 Meals-in-a-Bag – Choose from 10 shelf-stable recipes, buy the ingredients, and pack them in a brown paper bag with the recipe stapled outside. These easy meal kits help busy moms feed their families. [Click HERE for recipes & instructions.]

 Snacks for Classes – Hunger makes learning hard. Provide snacks for moms building life skills and kids practicing social-emotional learning. [Click HERE to sign up.]

 Shelf-Stable Food Donations – Help families stretch their budget with non-perishable, easy-to-make foods:

• Pantry Staples: Peanut butter & jelly, pasta & sauce, canned soup, chili, and stew.
• Proteins: Canned tuna, chicken, Spam.
• Quick Meals: Ramen, boxed pasta/rice meals, Mac & Cheese.
• Fruits & Veggies: Canned or packaged (no refrigeration required).
• Frozen Meals: Family-size or individual entrees.
• Extras Needed: Manual can openers.

 Drop-off Locations: Kent & Maple Valley, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 Questions? Lisa O’Leary – Lisao@vinemapleplace.org | 425-432-2119 x104

Kent Community Supper – needs volunteers

Joy & Jeremy Ellington

• 700 people participated in or attended the Christmas program, with a special note that the 100 gifts they had for the 14-17 age range disappeared quickly, including many youth who had stopped coming in recent  years returning and even wanting to participate (see older dancers, if include the videos).
• 300 attended the New Year’s Eve service; 2x usual attendance.
• Many miracles surrounding the funeral/memorial service for father/relative of worship leader and dance instructor, which started with asking for days of fasting and prayer before knew that he was very sick:  Allowing/asking for prayer amidst adamant refusal from many relatives; participating in the Christmas program against cultural norms of no celebrations for a year after a death of a family member, etc.  Asking for prayers for God to continue giving Grace in the situation.
• Prayers for Umbali and family: She has been on a YWAM mission and wishes to continue serving in missions.  Father is an alcoholic and pressuring her to marry.  Mother attempted suicide last year, but survived, and both mother and daughter asking to take baptism soon. (new prayer request today, that “Devil is raging and roaring” about the baptisms, so “Please pray for protection and victory.”)
• Were able to buy a mirror 1/5 acre adjoining the original 1/5 acre previously purchased for the recreational/education center near one of the villages.  Blessing and praise to Central Church for a large donation to help with the purchase.  The previous owners, after seeing the initial clearing and leveling, asked if they could hold their child’s wedding there.  They were able to bless the family with a level area for a tent, as well as leveling the drive with left over dirt, while they had the equipment, creating extra good will in the community.

Looking for a new way to serve? The women and children of KentHOPE Day Shelter are always in need. KentHOPE opened their doors in 2013 to provide basic needs, support services, medical and dental care along with so much more to those women suffering homelessness, spousal abuse, mental illness and substance abuse. To date they have helped 760 women and children transition into housing, 267 women gain employment and have had 157,380 meals served by volunteers like us! Some of you know we have been providing 2 or more meals a month there for many years. Cornerstone volunteers are amazing with their time and cooking skills and the ladies love to see us show up! We put together some awesome menus! Today they house approximately 30 women. For some of you it’s difficult to deliver your items to meet mealtimes, find the time to prepare food or just don’t enjoy cooking but want to contribute. So, we’ve found a solution! Instead of making complete meals, we’ve been blessed with the ability to use the church kitchen to prepare freezer casseroles and other entrées. This gives KentHOPE a freezer meal on the days volunteers are not scheduled to serve. Perhaps you’d like to join us to help with the prep work, cook, supply meat or other ingredients, donate toward supplies or deliver to KentHOPE. It’ll be fun, rewarding and a blessing to all! Watch for future posts on Sundays.