Parish Announcements – week of September 10th, 2023 (The 15^th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18)

Welcome to St. Alban’s Episcopal Church—we’re very glad you’re here!

Our annual “Food Drive” to feed the hungry in Ft. Wayne continues today, Sunday the 10th of September, and may extend to next week, the 17th of September, if our goal is not yet reached.

Our goal this year is the same as last year, to gather enough gallon size cans of vegetables to feed 250 people a day for 1 week.  This equates to 1,750 servings, or 73 gallon size cans of vegetables. 

Last year we brought in enough cans for 1,950 servings, so I know our goal is not too high, and I know that our Parish family has a tremendous heart for the hungry.

The Rescue Mission and Charis House will be the recipients of all the vegetables that we gather in and they will be the groups that “feed the hungry” in our community, with our vegetables, for 1 week.  They are experts at what they do, and we are pleased to support them.

You can buy the vegetables yourself, or we will purchase them for you from Sam’s Club, for $5/can, and they will deliver them to St. Albans; please make checks out to St. Alban’s Episcopal Church (with “for Food Drive” in the memo line).  Representatives from St. Albans will deliver them to the Rescue Mission. 

Thanks in advance for your support, and know that your generosity will be appreciated very much by those we help to feed.  

Many blessings,

George Shamp, Outreach Chairman