FOOD FOR THOUGHT  “For I was hungry and you gave me food…”  Matt. 25:35

The holidays are upon us and many families are looking forward to sitting down to a meal with family and friends.  When I was growing up we always went to my maternal grandmothers for Thanksgiving with the entire family and the table was filled with food.  Since my grandmother fixed the majority of the food my mother started a tradition with my immediate family that we prepared a full blown Thanksgiving meal and took it to a family that wasn’t as fortunate.  When we delivered this meal, we also left groceries with them so that they had food for a month. This was her way of teaching us to share the blessings that the Lord had bestowed upon us.  I tell this to you to give you a suggestion of providing the ingredients so that a family that isn’t as fortunate can prepare a meal that is fit for a king.  The Lord blesses us and this is a wonderful way for us to bless others.

Bins are in place throughout the month for your contributions at the Wesley Hall entrance, the Narthex and in The New Room Lobby. If you would rather make a monetary donation, make your check to TUMC and put FFT on the memo line.

This month's collection goes to Carolyn’s Cupboard at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church and they are in need of the following: 

cereal
canned meat
soup
crackers
cookies
canned corn
mayo, mustard, ketchup
canned spaghetti sauce and pasta
Thanksgiving items such as stuffing mix, cranberry sauce, canned sweet potatoes, etc.
Leftover Halloween candy is always fun, too

For those of you that like to shop early our next collection on December 5 will go to Share House and they are in need of: 

pop tarts
canned sweet potatoes
canned corn
canned green beans
canned squash
canned cranberry sauce
stuffing mix
canned ham
soup
marshmallows
crackers
bread crumbs
tea bags
Kool-Aid
juice
cake mixes
frosting
napkins

Thank you for making this mission project such a huge success.