{"id":2117,"date":"2017-03-12T16:31:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/wp\/?page_id=2117"},"modified":"2022-09-05T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T22:37:59","slug":"food-distribution-ministry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/?page_id=2117","title":{"rendered":"Food Distribution Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2118 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/food_distribution.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"142\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>How a GPC outreach ministry helps to support various food ministries in our community<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The GPC Food Distribution Ministry started when we contacted the Giant Eagle Express in Harmarville to purchase food for our monthly <a href=\"\/wp\/?cat=23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neighborhood Table<\/a> dinner. As we were finalizing menus for those dinners, Giant Eagle asked if we could make good use of their unused food that they had to throw away every day because no one was picking it up.\u00a0 We agreed and, from there, this new outreach ministry took off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The amount of donated food was a lot!<\/strong><br \/>\nGiant Eagle said that they could donate about $3,000 worth of bread and bakery foods per month and $250 of unused frozen meat each week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How we get the food from Giant Eagle Express to various food ministries<\/strong><br \/>\nGPC organized a team of dedicated drivers from our congregation and from the local community. The drivers pick up the unused bread and baked goods daily, and the unused frozen meat once a week from Giant Eagle Express. The donated food is then distributed to three food ministries in our community:\u00a0 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breadoflifeetna.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bread of Life Food Pantry<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elfinwildchurch.org\/MEALS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elfinwild Meals Ministry<\/a>, and the Neighborhood Table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How can you participate?<\/strong><br \/>\nOne of our goals is to have many drivers and thus limit the driving time needed to about one hour per day.\u00a0 We can always use more drivers \u2013 regularly scheduled drivers or substitute drivers.\u00a0To learn more, or to sign up to be a driver, contact Jimmy Martin, Henry Long, or Ken Wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a GPC outreach ministry helps to support various food ministries in our community The GPC Food Distribution Ministry started when we contacted the Giant Eagle Express in Harmarville to purchase food for our monthly Neighborhood Table dinner. As we were finalizing menus for those dinners, Giant Eagle asked if we could make good use of their unused food that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4455,"href":"https:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2117\/revisions\/4455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glenshawchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}