Feeding - St. David's Episcopal Church

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Mission Imperative, Episcopal Diocese of Spokane

Feeding Ministries

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK

Each year, St. David's donates thousands of pounds of food to the Second Harvest Inland Northwest food bank, 1234 E. Front Ave. Each Sunday, parishioners bring food and put it in the food basket in the narthex (just inside the front doors of the church). A selection of the foods is brought forward as a visible part of our offering at the 10:00 service every Sunday.

Food and financial donations are collected at church and taken to the Spokane Food Bank. Every Tuesday afternoon volunteers from St. David’s help sort donated foods at the Food Bank so they can be effectively distributed.

For more information on Second Harvest and volunteer opportunities, see the Second Harvest Inland Northwest web site

CROSSWALK MEALS

Crosswalk is a multi-service center for street kids, homeless and high-risk youth aged 13-17. Operated by Volunteers of America at 525 W. 2nd Ave., the center provides many free walk-in services including shelter, school, food, medical assistance, counseling, clothing, case management, recreation and referrals to substance abuse and mental health treatment.

Fifty churches, businesses, service clubs and families provide daily meals; St. David’s is responsible for the second Thursday of each month.

For more information: Crosswalk web site

MEALS ON WHEELS

For more than 35 years, St. David’s members have volunteered with Meals on Wheels (Mid City Concerns, W. 1222 2nd Ave). Every four weeks, we furnish drivers for two daily routes in the northwest area of Spokane.

Hot meals are delivered Monday through Friday and each meal contains enough nutrition for an elderly person for a day. Frozen meals are also delivered one day per week, for people who need them on the weekends. In addition, supplements are occasionally delivered. The meals are prepared by a commercial off site kitchen and packaged by route. The menus are prepared by Senior Nutrition for the all the senior meal sites.

Initially, most of our volunteers were young mothers with children in school, and occasionally a working person would donate their lunch hour. At the present time, drivers are equally split between men and women and most of them are retired! Some of the same women who started driving so long ago are still dedicated to helping these elderly people remain in their homes by delivering Meals on Wheels.

CROP WALK

CROP WALKS are community-based events to raise money for local hunger-fighting agencies and the international relief and development efforts of Church World Service. Locally, they are sponsored by the Spokane Interfaith Council. The annual walk is held at the end of April, with a number of St. David’s members participating.

Greater Spokane's CROP Hunger Walk is an annual 10k walk-a-thon along the Centennial Trail. It begins at south side of Martin Centre at Gonzaga University with noon registration and entertainment (including activities for children). The 2005 Walk raised a $30,084 -- of that, 25% went to local organizations: Second Harvest Food Bank, Interfaith Hospitality Network, Spokane Valley Meals on Wheels and Mid-City Concerns Meals on Wheels. 75% of the donations went to international relief programs designated by the donors.

For more information:
Interfaith Council web site
Church World Service web site