Board of Outreach
The statistics are staggering. One in ten families with children, in Waterbury, face food security issues, meaning that choices are often made between providing healthy food to the children and paying for other bills, or forgoing food for the adults and supplementing with cheap, but emotionally satisfying food. During the school year, many of the children of these families are enrolled in the federally funded school breakfast and lunch programs. Our Summer Lunch Program is mean to help fill the gap for these children by providing, everyday throughout the summer, a basic, but nutritional bag lunch.
This year is our fourth year. Thanks to the superlative efforts of Sandy Lewis and Wendy Haupt as organizers, this year has also been our smoothest operating year. We will have made and served about 800 lunches by the time the program ends next week.
The following are some photographs taken by Barbara Tomasi Gay, the assistant educational leader at Thatcher Brook Primary School, during some of the summer school sessions. Many of the children who took summer school also received lunch from us.
Back Bay Mission Trip
A group of 15 or 16 members of our church will be going to Biloxi, MS, on the gulf coast to assist the Back Bay Mission in their aim to help rebuild homes after the damage from Hurricane Katrina. Our work dates are Sunday, November 28 to Friday, December 3. You may check out Back Bay Mission's website to learn more about their wide-ranging mission at www.thebackbaymisison.org.
For participating members, please fill out a form about your travel information so that we can plan arrangements once you arrive. Click here.
Food Bank Volunteering
The Board of Outreach is organizing volunteers to sort food at the Vermont FoodBank. Volunteers gather in the parking lot of the church at 8 am. Please call Wendy Haupt (244- 5213) or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it her if you would like to help.