It was such a nice day at Butler Park on Sunday Sep. 22 from 2-4 P.M. We have such abundance supply of loaves of bread, bagels, English muffins, etc. All donated by angel network. Thank you, Roy Fabricius, for being so diligent in watching for our bread donations. The hot meals smell so delicious even from a distance.
We served a total of 243 cups of hot stew, 400 P & B sandwiches, 300 boiled eggs, to our very hungry friends- the poor & the homeless. Thank you to our wonderful kitchen, park, behind the scene volunteers for preparing & serving them. We also gave out the very delicious chocolate mousse cheesecake, donuts from Mr. & Mrs. Wright, & our very humble & beloved Pastor Cameron who provides the beverages like coffee & juice. Most of all we can’t thank enough Hosanna Lutheran Church esp. their handsome Pastor James. For allowing us to cook in their AHS approved & beautiful kitchen. Without their kindness there will be no place for us to cook the meals for the poor. And to the selfless volunteers, behind the scene & in the front. They’re pretty amazing as the extension of God’s hands on earth. They help cook, serve & donate their monies too so others can eat.
We are not funded by any govt. We rely basically on donations or Food Bank if there’s any. If you donate to us, your money will go 100% to the food. We are all volunteer based, so no one gets any salary. If God touches your heart & wants to donate any money for Feeding the homeless & the Poor, please send it to Hosanna Lutheran Church marked HTH (Helping the Homeless) 9009 -163 Street. Or E-transfer to this email : donations@ hosannalutheran.ab.ca so we can give you a usable tax receipt for your financial donations if you need it. Please put in memo HTH. To identify where the funds are for.
A big thank you for any donations, all the volunteers, all the donors not just financial but esp. the desserts for this week & the next (Joan Brownbridge has a secret donor who just don’t want to let his right hand know what the left hand is doing) very generously gave us hundreds of chocolate mousse pie. Such a hit at the Park. The abundance of bread from Angel Network too, & the many secret donors.
However, “Many are the harvest but few laborers”, we are in dire need of volunteers. 8:30 am – 11 every Friday- help to cook , prep, & make sandwiches. Sunday a.m. 8:30 – 1 pm – to warm up all the food to get it ready for the park. Sunday -1:30 -4 pm At Butler Park to serve the hot meals, boiled eggs, sandwiches, etc. Sunday 12:30- to help drive, load the truck & unload at the park. And at 4 pm load & drive it to the storage & unload it again. You don’t need to stay in between if you have to do anything. All these works needs lots of hands. But it’s all worth it. If you’re trying to earn your brownie points from God, this will be a good source. Why we do this? Because the poor & the homeless are also children of God who are living, breathing human beings. They too knows how to feel the cold into their skin if the only so-called roofs to their heads are the blankets that you’ve donated. It is not the freeze of the winter that chilled their hearts, body, mind & spirit but our lack of empathy & actions to alleviate their sufferings of being, unwanted, ridiculed , judged & unloved are the reasons why they die inside & out. WE WILL WALK THE TALK. WE NEED YOUR HELP !
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