NOTICE this is in person!
Until the shelter opens for overnight guests, we are providing 48 sack lunches every month, which we bag on the first Sunday. Please join us.
We will again make PB&J sandwiches and assemble sack lunches, including snack foods (individually wrapped), drinks, and fruit that the staff can hand out beginning Tuesday, February 6, and the rest of the week.
I know we are up for this because we have done this since June 2022, and it has been a lot of fun! We write personal notes to include with the lunches. We make 48 PB&J sandwiches. We fill lunch sacks with chips, snack mixes, food bars, apple sauce, raisins, bananas and oranges. When we are done, we gather with our own PB&J sandwiches and enjoy each other's company as we eat the same meal we had just packed in lunches for Grace, an act of solidarity.
Phil reported that our lunches were a big hit with Grace clients.
The plan: Gather at 12:00 noon PST Sunday, indoors or out, depending on the weather, to make PB&J sandwiches and pack sack lunches with everything but the sandwiches and fresh fruit, which will be refrigerated overnight. Tuesday, the lunches will be delivered to Phil at the Grace parking lot.
Who can help, one way or another? If you can join the sandwich making at 12:00, RSVP and you will get the address through a meetup message. Want to contribute something to the lunches? RSVP and you will get details.
Please join us.
Phil expressed a need for towels (gently used) and washcloths as well as new single-use razors for the shower services they offer at Grace.
I look forward to seeing you Sunday as we continue to support Grace this way.
Even though the shelter is not open, Grace Solutions is still operating and serving their neighbors in need with programs and services. To support them, go to their website, gracesolutions.org and visit their donor page. Or send a check to Grace Solutions, Attn. Phil Mastrocola, 484 E San Fernando St, San Jose, CA 95112.
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