>SPECIAL REQUEST!!!!
COULD WE TALK A LITTLE ABOUT HOW TO SURVIVE, WHEN THE LAST PAYCHECK HAS BEEN SPENT???
WHERE WILL YOU GET THE FOOD TO FEED THE KIDS???<
Hi, I’m reading this thread with great interest. I’m in the Denver area and one good thing to look into where you live are the church-run food pantries. Our church has a food pantry open every two weeks. It is stocked by our members with canned goods, canned meats, dry goods, cereals etc. Also, some farmers and groceries leave fresh vegetables there for the taking. We feed about 100 families. Call around to local churches and they can point you in the right direction.
We also belong to a network of churches that house homeless families. Each church provides shelter and meals for one week each quarter, and then the next church takes over. The network also provides help with finding permanent housing and jobs. It’s not the best situation for a family to have to sleep in a church classroom, but it beats sleeping in your car (and we church ladies are pretty good cooks, so the food’s pretty good). Call churches. You would be surprised what help they can provide.
Thanks for the great thread!
Welcome to the thread.
Good advise and I am glad the churches are still serving the community in your area.
Thank you for helping with the caring for folks.
On the police scanner for San Diego, I have heard that there is a group that also helps those that want off the street, the Police ask the dispatcher to send them, to those ready/needing the help, right there on the street.
They come with a van and pick them up.
This area is not like that, I am not up to date on the area churches, but know when I worked in a cafe in Kingman, we told them that we would check them out with the cops and if they were ok, fed them....some were gone in a flash.
There was a food pantry, but I haven’t heard of it in a long time.
Our local/large church, in my opinion, was taken over by liberals or something, as the new pastor can’t be bothered with all the special groups and does not have a Sunday evening service.
For some of the casino workers, the evening service was the only one they could attend.
There’a an earlier thread with similar information:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1990507/posts
Happy Reading!