[Lekooks] Family Promise Host Week - Time Sensitive -Volunteers Needed to Supply Food Please

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Quoting Gina Magnus via Lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org>:

> I am sorry if I wasn't clear.....our host week starts this Sunday February
> 27.  The meals and food that we will  be providing will be delivered on
> Monday and enjoyed by our guests  through next week.  That is why I need to
> collect the food this Sunday.  Our only volunteer activity is providing the
> meals and food items at this time, this is a very different experience than
> in times past. Hopefully we will get back to something that feels more
> normal soon.
>
> gina
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 11:29 AM Gina Magnus <gmarksonmagnus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I received the information about our upcoming host week late Wednesday
>> afternoon.  Our shelter apartments are full and Family Promise has placed
>> two families in the new overflow shelter in Waukesha.
>>
>> We will be providing food ( three dinners only) for:
>>
>> Apt 1:  Single women's shelter:  2 women
>> Apt 2:  Mom and two children, son age 9, daughter age 7
>> Apt 3:  Mom, Dad and two sons ages 5 and 3
>> Apt 4:  Mom with two daughters, ages 24 and 12
>>
>> (The families in the overflow shelter are on a different meal donation
>> plan.  If you are interested in donating food to the overflow shelter at
>> ANY time please contact me. For them, we would sign up through "Meal
>> Train".  I plan to learn more about that opportunity in the next few days.)
>>
>> Church of the Resurrection will provide half of the food and we will
>> provide the other half.  The other VC, Laurin, and I will be making one
>> meal each and for the rest......
>>
>> WE WILL NEED:
>>
>> 1.  One meal that will feed 3 adults and 2 children.  No pork and no peas
>> please.  The meal will need to be portioned out.  I can provide details to
>> the person who volunteers.
>> 2.  Two Quarts of milk
>> 3.  A dessert - bars or cookies -  type to be divided among the apartments
>> 4.  Some fruit - bananas, grapes, apples (anything but kiwi) also to be
>> divided among the apartments.  Need not be large quantities of fruit
>>
>> I do apologize for the short turnaround time for these items, but we just
>> received the info late Wednesday afternoon. I will need to make
>> arrangements to get all of the donations on Sunday so that I can deliver
>> them on Monday.
>>
>> Please call me if you would like to contribute any of the items above.  I
>> didn't know how to put this in a Sign up Genius!?  If the item you wish to
>> donate is spoken for, I will let you know.
>>
>> We are still in this strange cycle of "hosting" where we do not get to
>> interact with our guests.  It seems a bit detached, but I have been told
>> that our guests are wonderful and very grateful for the meals.  :)
>> Apparently the 3 and 5 year old boys love to give hugs!!
>>
>> Thanks to ALL of you,
>>
>> gina magnus
>> 262-424-7640
>>
>> Unfortunately, I will be in a Board meeting for several hours Thursday
>> afternoon, but I will try to step out to answer my phone if possible.
>> Please leave a message if I can't answer.
>>
>>