Please Help Serve at Loaves and Fishes

Texas is second most food insecure state in the nation. Defined, food insecurity is when you are so limited in resources to buy food that you are running out of food, reducing the quality of food that your family eats, feeding your children unbalanced diets, or skipping meals so your children can eat.   According to a state report, three million Texans, or one in eight, (including 1.2 million children) were forced to visit a soup kitchen or food pantry to feed themselves in 2009.  Even more concerning is the fact that Texas has the highest rate of childhood hunger and food insecurity in the nation at 22.1%, and in our own Bexar County, 23.5% of children are living in poverty.

FPC recognizes that many of our neighbors are struggling with hunger on a daily basis, and Loaves and Fishes seeks to provide food, as well as friendship and fellowship to over 200 guests each month, including several families with small children.  Please join us the last Sunday of each month in the first floor kitchen area at 3 p.m. to prepare and pray.  We begin serving our guests at 3:30 and stay until about 5:30 to finish cleaning up.  All ages are welcome to serve.  We are also very appreciative for those of you who are willing to bring a dish to contribute to the meal (you can see the schedule of what to bring below), but it is not required for those who want to participate.  For more information, you may contact Linda or Robert O’Nave at 210.822.7389  or the Missions Department at FPC at 210.226.0215.

Regular schedule

Jan, April, Jul, Oct: A-I main dish, J-Q veggie/salad, R-Z dessert.
Feb, May Aug, Nov: A-I veggie/salad, J-Q dessert, R-Z main dish.
Mar, June, Sept, Dec: A-I dessert, J-Q main dish, R-Z veggie/salad.