Holiday Food Drive Update

Here is an important update on the holiday food drive: 

FUNDS: We have raised about $4,000, but we must quickly raise at least $3,500 more. We need to order food by Monday, Nov. 16, so the need for funds is urgent!! Please mark your tithe envelope "Food Drive" and/or bring food items to the Fellowship Hall now through Nov. 18. Thank you!

FOOD: When you bring your gifts of food, please check the expiration dates. So far this year we have lost about 30% of the food we collected because it was expired. We have found a homeless shelter and two half-way houses who will take some of it, but we can't use it in the gift boxes. Therefore we are seriously behind in the amount of food we need, so please bring your food in as soon as possible. 

HELPING: Please join in sorting, packing and delivering our holiday gifts, donate much-needed funds, and give us names of people who need a gift. If you have organizations or businesses you want to tell about this project, contact Jackie Nosek at 978-365-4466 or 978-660-5342 for an informational letter to share with them. Friday, Nov 13, at 7:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall there is a meeting for those who will pack the cars on Nov. 21. If you helped out with this last year, please come to this meeting.

Please see the bulletin web page at <http://www.thecollegechurch.com/ann_bul_cal.html> for more important details on the food drive.