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Monday, March 31, 2008

Serving the Underserved

The final tally is in! We raised just a bit over $600 from Keeping Kids Safe Day for some underserved families. The K-8 school that is adjacent to our property buses kids in from a poor part of Phoenix. The school asked the parents to complete a survey identifying their greatest needs and the number one need is food.

So we are trying to be intentional about meeting this need which is a big challenge for a small church like ours. When we decided to host Keeping Kids Safe Day, we decided to charge vendors a $25 booth fee and ask for a donation for food purchase. Between the booths and food we raised over $600...and this is just the start.

We have plans to reach out to other churches in this school's boundary and ask them to partner with us to meet this need. We are still forming the plan, but the goal is to form an alliance of neighborhood churches to collective meet this need.

Most of these families rely on public transportation system, so when we get our food boxes ready we are going to work with the school to identify one family that we could "set up shop" at their house to pass out the food boxes. Our hope is that we will have a greater impact and serve more families by going to them, rather than asking them to come to us.

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