December Needs

It's hard to believe that this is the last post with needs there will be for 2015 but the time has come! 

There are three weeks, okay, two and a half weeks of school left for this year and this is what is needed to make sure that the local kids we serve have food every weekend:

60 breakfast bar
6 ravioli
10 family size macaroni and cheese
30 corn
30 oatmeal envelopes
30 chili
30 beefaroni
30 juice boxes
60 applesauce
20 individual bags of cheez its
25 tuna
17 ritz cracker sleeves
44 easy mac envelopes
30 fruit cups
30 pudding cups

Each week we serve 30 kids.  We provide breakfast, lunch, a vegetable, milk and two snacks for the weekend.  We do this because it's hard to behave when you're hungry.  We do this because it's hard to learn when you're hungry.  We do this because no child should be hungry, especially in a world where we have so much excess. 

December is hard and it's busy.  Our kids' Christmas lists are long and sometimes daunting but remember, no one needs to buy the whole list, every small bag with 5-10 cans adds up to enough EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK.  Our Gracious God has provided enough for us all if only those of us who have more than enough share with those who are in need.  As we celebrate God's sacrifice to us in sending his Son to earth, let us remember to show love to those around us because He first loved us!