Cold Lake Food Bank. Never Expected This! Called Together To Care For Our Neighbors Who Need Food Support With Healthy Nutritional Groceries!

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1 Tuesday September 20, 2016 Fall 2016 Cold Lake Food Bank Called Together To Care For Our Neighbors Who Need Food Support With Healthy Nutritional Groceries! Charity Status! Hooray! We Are an Official Charity! In a letter dated September 12, 2016 the Cold Lake Food Bank Society received official notification that we have been registered as a Canadian Registered Charity. Tony Manconi, Director General Charities Directorate wished us well, Congratulations on becoming a Canadian Registered Charity. We wish you every Success Never Expected This! I never expected this!, was Bills exclamation today as volunteers weighed, unpacked, sorted and stocked food donations from all over Cold Lake. It s now mid afternoon and we ve been working since 9:30 this morning as the donations have come in. I never expected this! could be the refrain we use to express our experience in the Food Bank for the first three quarters of this year. The generosity and compassion of the people of our community has allowed us to care for neighbours in numbers that we could not have predicted. As of today we have fed over 9,000 people, up almost 4x the number of last year. Once in August and again this week we exceeded 100 hampers, provided for clients. None of us ever imagined this! 277 kg of potatoes Dug, Packaged, Delivered and Stocked

2 lorem ipsum dolor Record One Day Food Drive! Thanks to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Citizens of Cold Lake for record setting food drive! I m sitting in my office just amazed and delighted at the generosity and support of the community for the work we share in together through the Food Bank. Today was the third annual September Food Drive organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Cherry Grove. And today they set their all time record for a one day food drive in Cold Lake. The Food Drive brought in a total of 4,012.2 Kg of groceries to be provided to needy neighbours in and around Cold Lake. Using the Food Banks Canada conversion number, that becomes $22, on food. How long will it take to share this food with needy clients. In the first two weeks of September we served 191 individuals, couples or families, providing 4,138.5kg of groceries worth $22, We expect the demand on the food bank to be the same or higher for the rest of September and the year. Todays amazing food drive will carry us to the end of September. Treasury Branch Provides BBQ We appreciate and value the friendship and partnership we share with ATB Cold Lake. Thank you to the branch for purchasing a BBQ for the Food Bank, so that we can put on some hot dogs and hamburgers on a sunny day for our clients and anyone dropping by to say hello, drop off donations or just to take a look at what we are doing. I m hoping that the weather stays warm and sunny a little longer so we can light up the BBQ before the cold weather hits us. If you notice us as you go by please drop by for a hot dog or burger. 2

3 1 2 3 lorem ipsum dolor Lakeland Credit Union Support! The Lakeland Credit Union has been our partner and supporter all through the year. This August they collected breakfast food items with their campaign Part of the Complete Breakfast Is Missing! Thank you for your faithful support and encouragement! Part of This Complete Breakfast COLD LAKE HOSPITAL SOCIAL CLUB Is collecting food from September 1 30 Is missing. The Cold Lake Food Bank needs your donations. AND This August, bring a non-perishable breakfast item into Lakeland Credit Union Cold Lake for our breakfast focused food drive in support of the Cold Lake Food Bank. onions. We appreciate your generosity! Providing healthy, nutritional food involves fresh produce. Thank you for making this possible. And thank you to the Community Garden for your support. The Food Bank will be participating in a donation program sponsored by Pepsi Co, that will provide fresh produce in October. Appreciated donations: Cereal Oats Porridge Granola bars Nut butters Jams Jellies Canned fruit Juice Pancake & muffin mix Pancake syrup Is holding a Food & Fund Drive Sept 22 Oct 28 Good Season For Fresh Grown! BLUE SUN HEALING Is hosting a Food Collection for the Food Bank September Thank you to all the Gardeners for the gifts of fresh produce, potatoes, carrots, greens, beans, beats, tomatoes, apples, lettuce, 3

4 lorem ipsum dolor What Do These Stores Have In Common? COLD LAKE FORD WITH FORD CANADA Is putting the scare into hunger for the Cold Lake Food Bank with a Food Fund Raiser this October. A CHRISTMAS MEAL FOR EVERYONE COLD LAKE CHRISTMAS HAMPER PROJECT SHOW YOUR SUPPORT ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CAROL FESTIVAL FRIDAY DEC. 9, 7:00PM COLD LAKE AGRIPLEX FILL A BUS SATURDAY DEC. 10 9:00AM-6:00PM AT SOBEY S HAMPER HEADQUARTERS: COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH FOOD SORTING & BOX PREPARATION: SUNDAY DEC. 18 HAMPER PACKING: MONDAY DEC. 19 HAMPER DELIVERY DAY: TUESDAY DEC. 20 VOLUNTEER HOTLINE: cbc@incentre.net PROJECT COORDINATED BY THE COLD LAKE FOOD BANK HAMPER APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE HERE (DEADLINE NOV 30) They all have collection boxes for the Cold Lake Food Bank! The Cold Lake Ice will be collecting food for the Christmas Hamper Project from Sept. through Nov. Registered Charity Status Hooray! The Cold Lake Food Bank Society received notice from Canada Revenue Agency Charities Directorate that our organization has been registered officially as an Organized Charity in Canada. Effective July 7, Simply put We have our Number! This means that The Cold Lake Food Bank Society can issue receipts for contributions to the Food Bank, that are acceptable for qualifying for charitable tax credits. Tax receipts for donations to the Cold Lake Food Bank will be issued by the end of February each year. Registered Charity status allows the Cold Lake Food Bank to participate in funding and food sharing programs on a national scale through Food Banks Canada and other organizations that require charitable status. Registered charity status now makes it possible for the Food Bank to apply for support from the Lakeland United Way. Churches and other charitable organizations can now contribute to the Food Bank as a charity to a charity. Make Checks payable to the Cold Lake Food Bank. Call (780) or (780) to arrange drop off. Mail your donation to A Street, Cold Lake, AB, T9M 1R3. Or drop off your donation Wed.10:00AM to 2:30pm or Fri. 6:00 to 8:00pm. 4

5 lorem ipsum dolor A Big Thank You To B&R ECKELS Transport Ltd. For Picking Up And Delivering Food Share Grocery Orders. RIDE WALK FOR REFUGE COLD LAKE 2016 On Saturday October 1, the Cold Lake Food Bank is partnering with Ride For Refuge to host a Ride Walk For Refuge fund raising event in our community. Here s How To Get Involved As A Rider Or Walker! Join Our Team: Cyclepaths4ColdLake Food is the name of our team. Click on the link which will take you to the registration page. 1. Start an account 2. Choose Ride/Walk Anywhere for Location. 3. Accept Waver. 4. Join Team a. Check Age b. Search for Cyclepaths 4 Cold Lake Food. 5. Continue to follow prompts. Food Banks Alberta Food Sharing Program The Cold Lake Food Bank participates in the food sharing program provided by Food Bank Alberta. Donated and purchased food is warehoused in Edmonton for the use of Food Banks through Alberta. Available food items are shared through out the Province. Raise Funds For The Cold Lake Food Bank! 12 and under: Free Over 12: Raise minimum $50 to participate Any age: Raise minimum $100 to earn a long sleeve t-shirt (Registration deadline is Sunday September 18 to guarantee a T-shirt. The Schedule: Start & Finish at the Cold Lake Food Bank (Community Baptist Church) A Street. Registration: 8AM, Start: 9AM, Lunch: 10:30AM 2:00PM, Route Closes: 2:30pm For full details at Go to the Ride Cold Lake Food Bank page at 5

6 And our God will meet all our needs according to his Dear Friends: glorious riches in Christ Jesus! Philippians 4:19 Adapted We are coming to the end of the third quarter of the first year of our responsibility for the operation of the Food Bank through the Cold Lake Food Bank Society. We have been involved in an amazing experience of the outpouring of God s glorious riches in Christ Jesus as he met every need we have had, many times by wonderful on time surprises of gifts of money and donations of food. It will come as no surprise to any of us that the use of the Food bank has increased by numbers that none of us ever anticipated. The number of people we have fed through the food bank has increased 290%. So far this year we have fed 9,480 neighbors. I want to try to help us understand the size of the riches of God s grace that we are experiencing. I have an idea of what it takes to feed myself. Some of us have an idea of what it takes to feed one hundred people at a banquet. But what does it take to feed an average of 256 a week through a whole year? This is what the Food Bank looks like on Wednesday morning September 21, just before we a open. The shelves a completely full. There is about 4,000kg of food on these shelves. It takes 8,000kg a month to care for the individuals, couples and families that need the support of the Food Bank. More than half the groceries provided by the Food Bank are purchased every month. The money comes from generous individuals, couples, families, churches, corporations, businesses groups and organizations. Grocery bills have risen from $8, in January to 20, in August. The Food Bank has purchased $112, of groceries from January through August. We expect that purchases for September through December will be $60, What you are reading and thinking about right now is the size, the weight, the volume and the amount of the riches of God s grace to us in Christ Jesus. Our testimony, our witness is that out of his glorious riches in Christ Jesus, our God has supplied everything we have needed to do the work of love that he has called us to. I believe that God will continue to meet our needs out of the storehouse of his love. I think his provision will continue to surprise us and open our hearts in generosity, wonder and praise. Thank you for your partnership in caring for our neighbors who need food support with healthy nutritional groceries. Phil Crump