Meal Kit Packaging Event Big Success
Thank you to all who contributed and volunteered
On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, right after worship, more than 30 volunteers of all ages joined together to pack meal kits. Members of the Social Action Council, Board of Trustees, and Faith Development teachers mingled with old and new members, visitors, parents, youth in middle school and college, and more.
In just under an hour, hundreds of cans, boxes, and packets of food were organized on one of four overflowing tables. Volunteers created assembly lines to assemble bags or pans for different recipes and worked together to double-check that all ingredients were present. Soon, one hundred meal kits were assembled and ready for distribution!
Forty meal packages were given to the two UUCUC Little Free pantries in Champaign and Urbana. The remaining sixty meal kits were split between the Church of the Brethren in Champaign for their weekly food pantry and CU Mutual Aid. Our church has an ongoing relationship with the Randolph Street Community Garden and with Dawn Blackman, who serves as the community outreach coordinator for the Church of the Brethren, located just across the street from the garden.
Thank you to the members of the congregation who donated food and made cash donations totalling $1225. We spent $891 on meal kit items, and the remaining $334 will be used to purchase additional food for the UUCUC Little Free Pantries.
