Information about Pickering Cares

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

This week @ Pickering Cares

Well, today we and our Food Bank partners met with Mayor Ryan. It seems this meeting is the formal kickoff for the Pickering Cares project each year. He again was a great encouragement and signed up to be one of our volunteers on May 14th for the food collection.

We continue to sign up community partners with 3 churches now on board for this year and 3 in process. So, we are well under way. We will be providing the email for individual volunteers to connect with us. (We do provide volunteer hours records for High School students.)

Here is a photo of our food intake station at last year's event.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

This Week @ Pickering Cares

    So far this week we have had another church commit to partnering with us. And tomorrow I meet with another. Our goal is to have at least 6 of the 20 or so churches in Pickering on board. Many hands will make light work.

    Our next area to invest in will be to attract some local sponsorship. It takes about $4,000 to do this size of project. Last year some individuals who felt led of the Lord to encourage this endeavour, covered all of our costs. This year, we are trusting God that the business community will contribute as well as individuals.

    I look forward to reporting again in a week.



   Fred

Saturday, March 5, 2011

This Week @ Pickering Cares

We are ramping up for 2011 Pickering Cares. We accomplished some important things so far. Here is a quick summary.

1. The Pickering Firefighters are back on board as a place where those who can't put there food our on May 14th, can drop it off instead.

2. Pickering Pentecostal Church is back and promising to have a bigger team.

3. We are meeting with the Mayor of Pickering March 29th to line up the city's support and electronic signs. (Also to re-sign Mayor Ryan as a volunteer.)

Keep posted for our progress as we approach our May campaign.