**2nd-ANNUAL FAMILY-FRIENDLY OUTREACH OPPORTUNITY **

**WE HAVE HUGE NEEDS, PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING**

We need your help to make up a food item, fill a backpack, volunteer, or make a monetary donation, and most importantly please pray for God to be glorified 🙂  Here are all the pictures from last year’s picnic 🙂 

We are so excited to announce that we will be doing our monthly feeding the homeless/less fortunate, but for August, we will be doing an outdoor picnic.  This is our 2nd-annual event.   This will still be held at St. Lucas Church, 745 Walbridge, Toledo, OH, from 4 to 5:30.  We will be cooking out, giving away backpacks, and possibly a bounce house and visit from Muddy the Mudhen.  We received a permit to block off Frank Street so the picnic will ALL be outside.  In addition, we have had to hire 2 Toledo Police Officers ($75 for each one so a total of $150).  We did this just for safety reason.  We are in need of much food, backpacks, volunteers, etc.  If you cannot make a dish, please consider making a monetary donation, we need to raise approximately $500 to make this happen.   Last year we served well over 300 people, so we are anticipating a little more this year.  Neighbors will be able to smell the delicious food we are cooking out and they will see we are having a FREE, FUN event.  Due to that, we will also need more volunteers.  We have had many say they cannot help due to summer being so busy and we appreciate that and completely  understand, but please remember, people are still hungry in the summer so any help you can give is greatly appreciated!! This is for the entire family so feel free to bring your children.  We have a  sign-up sheet for all item that we need.   PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BESIDE EACH ITEM YOU ARE SIGNING UP FOR SO YOU PROVIDE THE CORRECT QUANTITY NEEDED!! ALSO, ANYONE THAT SIGNS UP TO VOLUNTEER, WILL ALSO NEED TO BRING AN ITEM FROM THE LIST DUE TO LIMITED RESOURCES.  

If you want to sign up for multiple items, please feel free to do that. We need all items at the church by 3 p.m. If you are willing to fill a backpack, that would be AWESOME 🙂 

Please note we are unable to pick up food items, so please only sign up if you are able to drop them off at church:)  All items also need to be fully cooked pleased.   The link above should take you directly to the sign-up sheet. Also,

If you would like to make a monetary donation visit the Miracle CHRISTmas website and click on the “donate” tab for a secure paypal donation or you can send monetary donation to:

Free Tastes Good
PO Box 312
Syvlania, OH  43560

Thanks for helping us feed the least of these ~ MATTHEW 25:40 If you are willing to help the day of the event, please sign up also – that section is at the bottom of the sign-up sheet! We will need many to stay afterwards to help us clean up please. Thanks for continuing to be the hands and feet of Jesus!! This is such a cool outreach and I am really excited about this!!  You guys are simply amazing!

GOD IS GOOD. . ALL THE TIME!!

HERE IS THE VIDEO FROM LAST YEAR 🙂

**WE NEED TO RAISE $500 – PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING $1 OR EVEN A DISH** 

Luke 14:12-14 NIV “Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

We will be doing our monthly FREE Community Dinner in our community on Sunday, February 15th.  This will be a pot roast, potatoes, and carrots dinner with all the fixings.  In January, we fed well over 100, we we are planning to feed 200 God willing and we need your help 🙂 Such a cool way to give back to our community and help those that are struggling right now. The event is scheduled at St. Lucas Lutheran Church at 745 Walbridge Avenue (Off of Broadway), Toledo, OH 43609 from 4 to 5:30.  (Please note you will need to use the Frank Door Entrance). This is for the entire family so feel free to bring your children.  We have a  sign-up sheet for all items that we need below AND VOLUNTEERS.   Please note volunteer spots are limited and unfortunately once they are filled, that is all we have available.  PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BESIDE EACH ITEM YOU ARE SIGNING UP FOR SO YOU PROVIDE THE CORRECT QUANTITY NEEDED!!

We need all the food to be brought in the 1/2 size aluminum pans (Standard 9 x 13 and approx. 2″ deep) or if it states a full sheet pan.  Please make sure they are completely full as that is what we are basing the portion sizes on.

You can also make monetary donations by visiting www.miraclechristmas.com and clicking on the “donate now” tab.  If you want to sign up for multiple items, please feel free to do that. We need all items at the church NO LATER THAN 3 p.m. and please come in the Frank Street Entrance at the Big RED DOOR!!   Please note we are unable to pick up food items, so please only sign up if you are able to drop them off at church:)  All items also need to be fully cooked (except canned corn, green beans, and gravy). The link above will take you directly to the sign-up sheet. Also, if you would like to make a monetary donation visit the Miracle CHRISTmas website and click on the “donate” tab for a secure paypal donation. Thanks for helping us feed the least of these ~ MATTHEW 25:40 If you are willing to help the day of the event, please sign up also – that section is at the bottom of the sign-up sheet! We will need many to stay afterwards to help us clean up please. Thanks for continuing to be the hands and feet of Jesus!! This is such a cool outreach and I am really excited about this!!  You guys are simply amazing!

Something for everyone to think about also as we prepare for this meal, What does kindness mean to each of you? I sometimes think we underestimate how powerful kindness can be to people who are hurting. It truly can change their lives FOREVER!

GOD IS GOOD. . ALL THE TIME!!

**FAMILY-FRIENDLY OUTREACH OPPORTUNITY **

**WE STILL HAVE HUGE NEEDS, PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING**

We need your help to make up a food item, fill a backpack, volunteer, or make a monetary donation, and most importantly please pray for God to be glorified 🙂

We are so excited to announce that we will be doing our monthly feeding the homeless/less fortunate, but for August, we will be doing an outdoor picnic.  This will still be held at St. Lucas Church, 745 Walbridge, Toledo, OH, from 4 to 5:30.  We will be cooking out, giving away backpacks (families will be signing up with St. Lucas Church Children’s Program), and we will also have a bounce house, and possibly a visit from Muddy the Mudhen.  We received a permit to block off Frank Street so the picnic will ALL be outside.  In addition, we have had to hire 2 Toledo Police Officers ($75 for each one so a total of $150).  We did this just for safety reason.  We are in need of much food, backpacks, volunteers, etc.  If you cannot make a dish, please consider making a monetary donation, we need to raise approximately $500 to make this happen.   We anticipate our attendance being higher since all the neighbors will be able to smell the delicious food we are cooking out and they will see we are having a FREE, FUN event.  Due to that, we will also need more volunteers.  We have had many say they cannot help due to summer being so busy and we appreciate that and completely  understand, but please remember, people are still hungry in the summer so any help you can give is greatly appreciated!! This is for the entire family so feel free to bring your children.  We have a  sign-up sheet for all item that we need.   PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BESIDE EACH ITEM YOU ARE SIGNING UP FOR SO YOU PROVIDE THE CORRECT QUANTITY NEEDED!! ALSO, ANYONE THAT SIGNS UP TO VOLUNTEER, WILL ALSO NEED TO BRING AN ITEM FROM THE LIST DUE TO LIMITED RESOURCES.  We need all the food to be brought in the 1/2 size aluminum pans (Standard 9 x 13 and approx. 2″ deep) or you can bring a full size sheet pan.  Please make sure they are completely full as that is what we are basing the portion sizes on. To sign up for the items you want to bring Go HERE!! If you want to sign up for multiple items, please feel free to do that. We need all items at the church by 3 p.m.

If you are willing to fill a backpack, please add your name to the list HERE including your email address so once we have names, ages, how many boys, girls, etc, or feel free to do up a generic back pack 🙂

Please note we are unable to pick up food items, so please only sign up if you are able to drop them off at church:)  All items also need to be fully cooked pleased.   The link above should take you directly to the sign-up sheet. Also,

If you would like to make a monetary donation visit the Miracle CHRISTmas website and click on the “donate” tab for a secure paypal donation or you can send monetary donation to:

Free Tastes Good
PO Box 312
Syvlania, OH  4356

Thanks for helping us feed the least of these ~ MATTHEW 25:40 If you are willing to help the day of the event, please sign up also – that section is at the bottom of the sign-up sheet! We will need many to stay afterwards to help us clean up please. Thanks for continuing to be the hands and feet of Jesus!! This is such a cool outreach and I am really excited about this!!  You guys are simply amazing!

GOD IS GOOD. . ALL THE TIME!!

**URGENT NEEDS ~ WE NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE**

If you cannot make a dish, please consider making a monetary donation, we still need about $200 worth of food see below how to donate!!

We will be doing a monthly outreach to help feed the homeless/less fortunate in our community.  We are scheduled for  Sunday, June 22nd from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. at St. Lucas Lutheran Church at 745 Walbridge Avenue (Off of Broadway), Toledo, OH 43609.  We are doing a meatloaf dinner and had some requests for hard boiled eggs and mashed potatoes, so we will be supplying that:)  We have had many say they cannot help due to summer being so busy and we appreciate that and completely understand, but please remember, people are still hungry in the summer so any help you can give is greatly appreciated!! This is our NEW location and the time now be from 4 to 5:30 p.m.  This is for the entire family so feel free to bring your children.  We have a  sign-up sheet for all item that we need.   PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BESIDE EACH ITEM YOU ARE SIGNING UP FOR SO YOU PROVIDE THE CORRECT QUANTITY NEEDED!! ALSO, ANYONE THAT SIGNS UP TO VOLUNTEER, WILL ALSO NEED TO BRING AN ITEM FROM THE LIST DUE TO LIMITED RESOURCES.  We are also doing care packages so if you have any items, please let us know:) They were very excited last time to receive these items!

We need all the food to be brought in the 1/2 size aluminum pans (Standard 9 x 13 and approx. 2″ deep) or you can bring a full size sheet pan.  Please make sure they are completely full as that is what we are basing the portion sizes on. To sign up for the items you want to bring Go HERE!! If you want to sign up for multiple items, please feel free to do that. We need all items at the church by 3:30 p.m. and please come in the Frank Street Entrance at the Big RED DOOR!!   Please note we are unable to pick up food items, so please only sign up if you are able to drop them off at church:)  All items also need to be fully cooked pleased.   The link above should take you directly to the sign-up sheet. Also, if you would like to make a monetary donation visit the Miracle CHRISTmas website and click on the “donate” tab for a secure paypal donation. Thanks for helping us feed the least of these ~ MATTHEW 25:40 If you are willing to help the day of the event, please sign up also – that section is at the bottom of the sign-up sheet! We will need many to stay afterwards to help us clean up please. Thanks for continuing to be the hands and feet of Jesus!! This is such a cool outreach and I am really excited about this!!  You guys are simply amazing!

GOD IS GOOD. . ALL THE TIME!!