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   Many low-income children rely on the free lunch program at school to get at least one hot meal a day. During the summer, some of these children go without much to eat at all. Last summer Wyandotte Presbyterian Church cooperated with a government program to help these kids by acting as a free-lunch center and it went extremely well! However, our church has a somewhat elderly and declining population so we are having difficulty finding enough able-bodied volunteers who are available during the working day.
   Children up to the age of 18 (or age 26 with special needs) from the Downriver area can get a free hot lunch (pizza on Fridays!) between 11:30 and 12:30. The program started in late June and ends August 15th, so we need volunteers for the remaining weeks. We are most in need for volunteers to help set up--a truck delivers the food at our church at 10:45. We need people who can help carry it in and put it in place. Many of our church volunteers are elderly so this is where we are having the problem. Even if some people from your church could come just for that and only stay for 20 minutes or so, it would be a huge help. But they are welcome to stay and help serve food to the kids or wander around the cafeteria and chat with the children or their parents to make them feel welcome. I'm sure it's hard for some parents to have to rely on help with feeding their kids in the summer. This is a great opportunity to make them feel comfortable and show them the unconditional love of Christ! Then cleanup is immediately after, and this has been a problem for some of our elderly volunteers to dump vats of water that are hard for them to lift, so here again is an opportunity for an able-bodied volunteer from your church to come even just toward the end of the lunch hour to help with that.
   Our church is located at Oak & 23rd, just east of Fort St. If you need more information or would like to sign up for a day or time to help out in the next 2 weeks, please call the Rev. Arthur Oberg at 734-272-6296 and he will put you in touch with the lady who does the scheduling.
                                         Sincerely and God Bless,
                                                         Jane Hunyor