Six Ways to Help Feed Our Neighbors Facing Food Insecurity

OPPORTUNITY #1…  
SHARE DRIVES COME TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!
Our goal is to help restock the SHARE of McLean food pantry with the staples that our neighbors need during this time of heightened food insecurity. Click here for more info!
Click HERE to sign up to be the LEAD for YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD share drive!
Sign up HERE to volunteer to COLLECT bags from doorsteps (in the neighborhoods of Immanuelites who sign up on the LEAD page above) and bring them to SHARE by noon.
OPPORTUNITY #2
MAKE SNACK PACKS FOR QUARANTINING FAMILIES & INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT HOMES WHO HAVE KNOWN EXPOSURE TO COVID-19
Sign up HERE to provide snack packs for houseless families who are quarantining in hotels due to Covid-19 exposure. (Drop-off times at Immanuel are included in the sign-up, as we will transport the bags for you from there!)
OPPORTUNITY #3
McLean Cares – Update and GRANT CELEBRATION!
Click HERE and scroll down to Opportunity #3 to learn more!
OPPORTUNITY #4
HYPOTHERMIA PREVENTION DINNERS & SNACKS
Click HERE to sign up to provide snacks and warm meals for our guests (who will be staying together in one central FACETS location this year). Immanuelites will have the opportunity to sponsor meals, which we will be purchasing from local McLean restaurants this year as we seek to support local business and our guests at the same time!

OPPORTUNITY #5

SANDWICH MAKING FOR MARTHA’S TABLE- MONTHLY, 3rd FRIDAYS

Immanuelites now have the opportunity to make sandwiches at home and drop them off at the church for delivery to Martha’s Table once a month as we seek to share daily bread with our neighbors facing food insecurity.

Click here to sign-up for the third Friday in December (December 18th). 

 
OPPORTUNITY #6

ANNUAL “HOLIDAY FOOD FUND”

Every year Immanuel provides Thanksgiving baskets (a turkey plus all the trimmings) to 15 families identified by Garden Memorial Church as experiencing food insecurity. We also would like to provide Thanksgiving baskets for 17 families at Children of Mine and $35 supermarket gift cards to 29 low income families and 20 teachers at McLean/Falls Church Children’s Center.

We would like to include the teachers this year because their salaries have been reduced 25% because of low enrollment due to the coronavirus. If you would like to help, please make a donation of $25. Please make your check payable to Immanuel and either mail it to the church (or CLICK HERE for secure online giving) by November 30. Make sure you put “Holiday Food Fund” on the memo line of the check. Thank you!