TAKE AND EAT, INC PEOPLE FEEDING PEOPLE"
A Blessed Thanksgiving to each of the Coordinators and all of your Team Ministry Members at The Weekend Meals Ministry sites throughout Berkshire County and the Pioneer Valley! Deacon Frank and I, along with all of the over 1,700 clients and their caregivers and family members, count each of you as a special blessing in our lives. You are individually and collectively truly demonstrating "putting shoes on the Gospel message" through your beautiful works of charity in this ministry to our homebound seniors…you have touched many, many lives in multiple ways – spiritually and physically…you epitomize Blessed Teresa's message of "do small things with great love"…thank you and God Bless you and your family…
I am attaching the 2010 Calendar for each of your sites. Essentially, I have mirrored what you committed to when your team entered this ministry. In those instances where your scheduled weekend falls on a 3 day holiday weekend that is identified on the spreadsheet.
I am requesting the Coordinators review this schedule and book those dates with your kitchen and advise appropriate Parish staff/committees. Should it be necessary to do a schedule change due to a conflict, please let me know ASAP. As you can appreciate, once this information is shared with the various Elder Services agencies, clients and posted on the web site (www.takeandeat.org), those dates are "in stone". We wish to finalize this calendar by December 10, 2009 so please let me know prior to that date if you have any questions, etc.
Once again, thank you and may the coming year be a blessed, peace-filled and bountiful year ahead…and we ask you to please keep the Take and Eat Program, all of its clients and volunteers in your prayers as we go forward maintaining and expanding this Ministry during this New Year…in closing, we offer the following prayer for you on this Day of Thanksgiving…Blessings, Kathleen and Deacon Frank
Thank you for the blessings that you give to us each day; For friends and family we hold dear, for all you send our way. We ask that you will guide us well, in everything we do, And pray we never will forget these blessings came from you. Amen. |