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Loudoun Hunger Relief Pantry 2019

ONGOING: LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF – fourth Sunday – February 23rd!

This is one of our many missions to provide food for the hungry. Escalating costs of housing, health care, food, transportation and utilities provide challenges for more and more families to make ends meet. The working poor, senior citizens, the ill or disabled, the homeless, and children are helped every year by Loudoun Hunger Relief. Harmony designates the fourth Sunday of each month for food collection but donations are welcome anytime. The collection bin for donations is in Driscoll Hall. Following is a list of food items most needed:

• canned meats (tuna/chicken)
• rice
• beans
• pasta
• low sodium, hearty soups
• cereal/breakfast items
• canned tomatoes

A message from Linda Kimble, Coordinator for the Cold Weather Shelter (CWS), Loudoun Homeless Services Center

To Harmony UMC,

Good morning All,  I’d like to share with everyone about how things are going for the Cold Weather Shelter.  The program is going well, our highest attendance thus far has been 22 but usually around 15 to 18. CWS opens at 8 pm and the shelter takes folks in up to 8:30 pm unless they have a later work time off (if this is the case a copy of their schedule is turned in to verify).  Everyone must have a valid ID and pass a background check, due to having children on site we do not serve sex offenders in any of our programs here at this shelter. After bringing everyone in through the bag checks and registration, the dinner begins to be served.  It usually takes an hour to get everyone fed and cleaned up from dinner.  After dinner, they finish showers and cots are passed out with linens and everyone settles for the evening.

We are blessed to have HUMC on the team for dinners…there is always enough for folks to get full, seconds are never a problem when your church provides the meal.  To date HUMC has provided 495 individual dinners so far this season. They seem to know what group delivers when, and they look forward to that hot home cooked meal. We appreciate the effort and thought that goes into the individual planning of the meals you serve. The guests love the food and are thankful and are vocal to staff and the volunteers they see.  We are clearly blessed to be back in the shelter this year where staff can work cohesively with volunteers and churches to better serve our guests.  We are just a bit farther into the season than halfway and the weather thinks it is spring, however, we are ready for that crazy cold blast that we are sure to get. To date we have served 80 un-duplicated individuals for this cold weather season.  Thank you for your continued support.

If anyone would like to come and serve your Wednesday meal to CWS, I’m sure they would enjoy the opportunity to thank you themselves.

LOUDOUN HOMELESS SERVICES CENTER – COLD WEATHER SHELTER (CWS) – ALL DATES ARE TAKEN!

Thank you to everyone who volunteered.  Missions, the CWS staff, and the homeless thank you.  We have been blessed with mild weather but it’s with certainty that colder, wintry days are ahead of us.  Numbers do increase as many are in need of an overnight stay in addition to food.  It’s important to share that no food goes to waste regardless of the number that use CWS resources.  The shelter provides breakfast, bagged lunches, a dinner at 6:00pm and a dinner at 9:00pm (the dinner Harmony supports).  “If” (and it’s a big if!) there is an over abundance of food, the shelter shares with other community organizations to ensure they are reaching as many people in need as possible.  Nothing goes to waste.

A few reminders:  The address for food delivery is: 19520 Meadowview Court, Leesburg, VA 20175. Please provide a hot meal and it needs to be dropped off no later than 7:00pm every Wednesday.  The meals should be prepared (or store bought – i.e., Costco) and pre-cooked.  Please label your meals with the following information: “CWS from HUMC,” the date the meal is provided for, and heating instructions unless the package itself provides the instructions.  Bring food in disposable containers.

SPECIAL NOTE: Many who come to the shelter for assistance have dental concerns.  We have been asked to consider this with the type of food we provide. For example, instead of apples, please consider fruit cups as an alternative. Mark your calendars!  You will receive a reminder email the Monday before the date you signed up for: The link for CWS meals is on our website under the “Serve” tab.  Contact Roxanne Tipton at Tipton04@aol.com for 540-454-4654 with any questions.

Information regarding Volunteers of America-Chesapeake and the Loudoun Homeless Services Center/Cold Weather Shelter can be found at: https://www.voachesapeake.org/about  and  https://www.voachesapeake.org/lhsc. Copies of information sheets have been placed on the table in the breezeway.  Please feel free to take one.

Cold Weather Shelter Sign-Up