Just a couple of New Year Announcements

It's a joy to welcome the year with the storehouses full! At the end of the semester, God filled the shelves through the John Weldon food drive and a sweet girl who always asks her friends to buy food for us for her birthday instead of receiving gifts!

Christmas was thoroughly enjoyed by our Bear Necessities families. Gifts were given from 2Rivers Church along with grocery gift cards. Stockings were given by a local Girl Scout leadership. Gifts were also given by a local middle school student. What a blessing it is to be in community with people who are so obedient to God's call to be generous!

The new sign up is available for this semester and it usually fills quickly so be sure to get on it right away:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f4aaeaa22a64-20122013

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!

This week's needs

Bear Necessities needs the following items this week:

17 peanut butter
28 ritz cracker sleeves
27 easy mac envelopes
27 green beans
8 fruit cups
28 applesauce

If you are able to help with even just an item or two, it is greatly appreciated and if you know someone who might want to help, please pass this on!

Needs for 11/9-13

Thank you so much to everyone who helped this last week.  It always seems like the weeks leading up to the holidays have a higher number of cans needed than other weeks, so every can is appreciated! 

8 nutragrain bars
26 cans of tuna
6 easy mac envelopes
21 fruit cups
10 individually wrapped oreo snacks
64 individually wrapped rice crispy treats

Please remember that we set up on Wednesday and pack the bags on Thursday. 

This week's needs and five birthdays

Bear Necessities needs for this week:

11 oatmeal

30 cans of chilli

30 cans beefaroni

30 easy mac envelopes

24 cans peas

We also have five birthdays this month so we need five cake mixes and icing. With that we will also need about 100 rice crispy treats as well. 

Please share this with anyone that might be interested in helping. Every little bit counts!

Last week of October needs

This week Bear Necessities needs the following items:

30 cereal bars
10 easy mac envelopes

That's it! 

October Bear Necessities Needs

I hope everyone is enjoying the first few days of fall break.  I have seen some fun photos of beaches, Disney and a few mountains already.  I know that we were looking forward to this week to regroup and relax!

Not everyone is on vacation and some have already been getting a head start on Bear Necessities' October needs so we went down and got a count this morning of what we will need the week school is back in session.  Our numbers went down just a bit as one of our families moved from the district.  Please pray with us that they are blessed in their move and that if they're still in need of assistance, that God will connect them to how He would choose to provide for them.



Oct 19-23  |  SCHOOL BACK IN SESSION
12 peanut butter
14 jelly
17 easy mac envelopes
30 green beans
6 fruit cups
4 applesauce




And since some have asked to continue having future lists, here those are through Thanksgiving.

October 26-30
chili
beefaroni
easy mac envelopes
peas
juice box
applesauce
cheez it
nutragrain bars

November 2-6
nutragrain bars
ravioli
easy mac envelopes
corn
raisins
applesauce
peanut butter crackers
pudding

November 9-13
oatmeal
chili
beefaroni
easy mac envelopes
peas
juice box
applesauce
cheez its
nutragrain bars

November 16-20
breakfast bars
tuna
ritz crackers
soup
easy mac envelopes
corn
fruit cups
applesauce
peanut butter crackers
pudding

November 23-34
oatmeal
peanut butter
ritz crackers
easy mac envelopes
green beans
fruit cups
applesauce
cheez its
granola bars


November and the very beginning of December also has six birthdays in it.  That means that we need six cake mixes, six icings, six sets of party plates with napkins AND  165 treats that are approved individually wrapped snacks to share with classmates.  These are all usually place in a gift bag and we are needing a couple of those too. 

Thank you to everyone who helps make this ministry to our community work!  Each week we have different volunteers that age from preschool to adult, we have people praying, we have people donating and we couldn't accomplish this task without every single person!