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Meijer’s Fall SIMPLY GIVE Program

Meijer’s is giving us the opportunity to share in feeding the growing number of hungry people in our community. Our partner store is the 746 E. 16th Street where you can ask the cashier to put $10 from your credit card onto the St. Francis de Sales Food Pantry; this (St. Vincent de Paul Center) is  a shared  ministry of both Catholic parishes in Holland.

The Center has been part of this Simply Give Program for several years; through it we are able to provide healthy food including fresh fruit and meat to those in our community who are experiencing hard times. Today this includes many who are the “working poor”. It only takes one unexpected medical emergency, a major car repair or having one’s hours cut at work to move some into needing our assistance for the first time in their lives.

The SIMPLY GIVE program runs thru Sept. 27. Double Match Days (Sept. 4-6) mean that our “food pantry” will receive $20 in addition to every $10 you give toward this program on these three days. Be sure to name the St. Francis de Sales Food Pantry as your designated center. To ensure that we receive credit for your donation, you must purchase donation cards at the 16th Street Meijer’s.

Thanks to each of you who help our Outreach/Social Justice ministry at both Holland Catholic parishes. This program is an easy way for any of us to actively share in ministry to the hungry.

 

Remember that you can also serve through volunteering an hour or two on a regular basis at St. Vincent Center, 191 W. 13th St. - or by helping with furniture pickups on occasion – or doing   food pickups when the Feeding America deliveries come to Holland.