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The West Central Michigan Chapter Thrivent board will meet on Tuesday, July 22nd at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 680 E Main Street, Fremont. The Tuesday, August 26th meeting will be at Faith Lutheran Church, 707 Alice Street, in Whitehall. Lunch is at 11:30 followed by the board meeting at 12 noon. All Thrivent members are invited to join the board for lunch and the meeting that follows. Beginning in September the board will once again be meeting at West Shore Lutheran School on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 11:30 am.
On June 10th more than 70 members and friends of the Youth Group at Trinity Lutheran Church, New Era, along with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans donned hair nets and caring hearts during a meal-packaging blitz to benefit local and international hunger relief efforts. The event, to supply meals through the relief agency “Kids Against Hunger”, took place at Trinity Lutheran Church where the volunteers came together to make the event a reality. The fellowship hall at Trinity temporarily became an assembly line as volunteer’s packaged 21,186 nutritionally rich meals consisting of rice, soy, vitamins, and dehydrated vegetables. Each volunteer committed to helping scoop ingredients, weigh packages, seal bags and box the rice-based meals that took just over four (4) hours. It’s powerful to see a group of Youth and Adults joining together to pack meals that will feed other children. One third of these meals packaged will be used in the local area food pantries, one third will be sent to Emergency Food banks to help in disasters such as Katrina, and one third will go to third world countries. The efforts of everyone involved will bring much-needed nutritious meals to hungry children is very heartwarming. “Kids Against Hunger” developed a food mixture that is easy and safe to transport, simple to make with only boiling water, and culturally acceptable worldwide. The meals are distributed in more than 40 countries around the world through partnerships with humanitarian organizations. Kids Against Hunger is a nonprofit organization with the mission to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world. This is being achieved by getting volunteers involved and by setting up food packaging satellites in the USA, and through partnerships with humanitarian organizations worldwide - enabling Kids Against Hunger to deliver its specially formulated rice-soy casserole to starving children and their families in over 40 countries. The Kids Against Hunger network currently includes 30 food packaging satellites in 16 US states.
Care Abounds in Communities applications are available online and from Marge Stapleton, Community Service Team Director, at (231) 759-6248. To obtain an online application go to www.thrivent.com/. Click on the “Members/Chapters” tab at the top of the page. If this is your first visit to the Thrivent site you will be asked to register. Click on “Volunteer Resources.” Click on “Forms” on the right side of the page. Choose the form you are requesting and the format you need. Fill out the form and deliver or mail it to Marge at 2404 Estes, Muskegon, 49441 prior to the 15th of the month. Forms received after the 15th will not be considered until the following month. If you need help please call Marge, she will be happy to assist you.
Work has begun on our newest Thrivent Builds Habitat house at 1586 Sanford Street in Muskegon. This home is for a 9 member family and will include 6 bedrooms on a split level. Ground breaking was June 10th and the first day for volunteers was June 28th. Regularly scheduled volunteer days will be every Wednesday, Saturday and every other Tuesday evening. The planned completion date is the first week in December. There will be no work on July 2nd and 5th; August 30th and November 4th through the 30th. There is an urgent need for companies and sub-contractors who would be willing to volunteer assistance in the area of Plumbing, Electrical and Roofing. For more information please call the Habitat Office at (231) 727-6020 or Paul Petersen, board president, at (231) 798-1163. Volunteers are always needed and welcomed to come and assist.
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