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F.A.I.T.H. Pantry Says Thanks

To the Editor,

This past spring I sent a letter to the local churches requesting that they postpone summer food drives for F.A.I.T.H. Food Pantry. We needed to disperse the generous amounts of food received from the postal workers’ food drive in May. Our shelves were simply bulging. As we do not want to ask for what we don’t need, we asked for a temporary halt to donations.

This summer proved to be busy and in the month of September we provided a generous week’s worth of groceries for approximately 143 residents. That equals approximately 3,000 meals. So, off goes another letter to our friends at Newtown churches, this time asking for donations. Within two weeks the food deliveries started up, easing the work for our shoppers who had been working hard to keep our depleted shelves stocked.

Then came the call from Gael Lynch from the Youth Program at St. Rose Church. The Youth Group and the Knights of Columbus wanted to help. Before we knew it we found ourselves receiving hundreds of bags of groceries. The bags are piled along the walls, over and under tables, leaving only a pathway and two tables on which to sort. I wish I could relate to all the parishioners of St Rose Church the amazing sound made by the rustling of all those paper bags as they passed from hand to hand, along the human chain of volunteers who unloaded the cars and trucks, slid the bags down the ramp on the stairs to the basement, and passed them along to be piled in mounds on the floor of St John’s Church. People were talking and laughing and eager to help. Our clients receive the benefits of this generosity, but I wish I could somehow convey to them the spirit in which it is given. It would probably do more for their spirit than the food ever could.

Thank you all, the parishioners of St Rose Church, the Youth Group and the Knights of Columbus. Thank you for being part of an incredible community of caring neighbors.

Sincerely,

Nancy Taylor

F.A.I.T.H. Food Pantry

31 Zoar Road, Sandy Hook                                    November 5, 1999

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