Wednesday 17 December 2008

Requests update

The last week has been very busy for Storehouse with over 40 bags leaving the Vineyard Centre. As you might imagine, this has left us very low on some items so that at the moment we particularly need the following:
· ANY food that can be eaten without heating
· tin openers, plastic cutlery and bowls
· tinned meat
· tinned vegetables
· pasta sauces
· toiletries
· cereals, snacks, crisps etc
· tea bags, sugar, long life milk

The Vineyard Centre will be closed from Christmas Day until the 2nd of January, but we are hoping to still be able to meet the requests we might receive over that period. It would be great if we could stock up well before Christmas, particularly as there will be no Sunday celebration on the 28th, so feel free to drop in any donations of food or toiletries etc at the Vineyard Centre.

Thank you for all that you do in supporting Storehouse. It is your continuing kindness and generosity that enables Storehouse to reach out and help needy people in our community.

Monday 8 December 2008

Latest requests update

If you use this blog to help you buy something for Storehouse, sorry I haven't updated you for so long, but thank you for what you have brought us. At the moment we could do with the following items to help us give out foodbags over the next week:
  • tinned meat and meat products
  • tinned vegetables
  • pasta sauces
  • cereals, especially multi packs
  • long life milk
  • snacks - crisps, biscuits etc
  • toiletries of all descriptions

We will be giving away a large number of bags this week following a request for 12 family bags, so please feel free to drop any donations off at the Vineyard Centre. And thank you again for all your donations and please feel free to add to the above anything that you feel God might be wanting you to give. This is how The Message puts part of the passage Louise spoke from yesterday (see below): Then the King will say, 'I'm telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.' (see Matthew 25: 31-46)

Sheep and Goats

Odd name for a Storehouse posting you might think, but if you were at our Sunday morning celebration yesterday you will know the context. If you weren't there, please download the talk from the Church website or right click here and "Save Target As". It talks so much about helping others and our motivation for doing that and really is worth saving and listening to again.

November stats

Sorry for not having updated this blog for so long, but here we go. During November, your kind donations of food and toiletries have enabled Storehouse to give away 71 food bags to 59 individuals or families. This was as a result of requests from 13 local agencies plus some non agency requests. Thank you for everything that you have given; the people who receive your gifts are real people with little or nothing to eat, and some don't even have a home of their own. Your donations really do make a difference in their lives - in fact a guy was talking in the school playground to someone from church the other day and he commented that Storehouse is a real life saver. He wasn't from church, but he had seen the difference Storehouse makes. We might never know the full extent to which each bag will impact someone's life, but we will keep giving away these tokens of God's love, and we thank YOU for enabling that to happen.