FRONT DOOR MINISTRY Lunch Bags [pdf brochure]
Help at the Front Door (formerly called “The Helping Hands Program”)

We have become a big success with our lunches we’ve been preparing and giving away at our front door. We have hungry people (sometimes 30-40 per day/300 a month!) coming to the church door asking for them daily!

PLEASE help us supply these lunch bags!

Each lunch costs about $3 -$4 to buy the supplies. We’d like members and friends to either contribute money for these or buy some of the component parts for these bags:

• Extra large lunch bags (size 8) (Smart and Final) (about $8 for 100)
• Boxes of plastic sandwich and snack bags
• Tuna, chicken, or ham aalad with cracker packages (come individually in tuna
  section of store; usually are $1 but can be $1.29 or more)
• OR small cans of Vienna sausages (Smart and Final and other places) $.50 can or less in
  bulk
• BIG boxes of Ritz or similar crackers we can make into smaller snack bag sizes
• Applesause or fruit cups in individual containers (available everywhere in packs of 6 or 8 small cases of 8 packs)
• Cereal/power/snack bars (come individually or in boxes of 8-12) (NOTHING crunchy or sticky/goey!)
• Snack packages of cookies
• Boxes of raisins (come in groups of 6 or 8)
• Bags of nuts (come in boxes of 20 or so)
• Peanut butter or cheese and cracker packages (come in packages of 8—12)
• Cases of bottled water (instead of juice boxes) $3-$4 per cases of 24 - NO juice boxes.
  

Good stores to get these items cheaply include:

• Smart & Final
• Grocery Outlet
• Big Lots
• Dollar Store
• Costco
  
  Questions? See Karleen in the church office (408) 297-7212,
  or call Pat Plant, Mission Elder, at (408) 279-0220

SAVE your receipts!
When you spend money for the Front Door Ministry or any 5th Sunday project, save your receipts, write your name on them, and put them in the blue binder kept in Pat Plant’s Mission Elder box in the Conference Room. We can issue you “in kind” receipts for your taxes, and we can get a clear estimation of how much these mission projects really cost. We are planning to go out for some grant funding and this sort of information will be key to our ability to state how much we’ve spent.

Updated February 2012.