Posts Tagged ‘food pantry’
Monday, August 29th, 2011
GraceWorks partners with over 55 area churches that provide support and volunteers to help us achieve our mission of sharing the hope and grace of God by helping our neighbors in need. One way that we help is by providing food for struggling families. Our ability to provide that food has been challenged recently as the food pantry stock had gotten very low.
Not any more. Each year Brentwood Baptist Church holds a food drive to benefit GraceWorks. Just think how excited we were as we unloaded
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
Boy Scout Zack Sexton saw a need at GraceWorks, and took the opportunity to address that need in his Eagle Scout project. With the volume of food donations that are sorted here at GraceWorks, the pantry needed a sorting table that was more flexible for different sized drives or donation items. After volunteering in the pantry to understand the process, Zack designed a table that is long enough to accommodate the sort boxes, and with overhead signage that can be changed out as needed.
Thank yo
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
One of the best things about working at GraceWorks is seeing God work in such amazing ways. We have seen some unusual situations the past week or so, where God's hand has been so visible in the interactions, in who was here, and in what was said. Praise the Lord!
Last week, a client came in who has 5 children and lost her husband about 10 years ago. She met with two of our volunteer GraceWorkers, one of whom is relatively new to the process and was training with a seasoned GraceWorker.
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
We had a great group of 7th and 8th graders from Brentwood United Methodist Church's Student Ministry here on July 13. What a help they were in our food pantry and thrift store. They didn't even complain about the heat! Thank you for helping at GraceWorks!
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Friday, July 1st, 2011

Last week, I had an experience with a client that made me so glad to be a part of GraceWorks as a volunteer.
A man of large stature came in for help needing food for himself and his two children he is raising. We talked and
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