Still Time to Drop Off Food Donations! Help Families and Churches in the LCMS Texas District with Winter Storm Recovery

If you are in Northern Illinois and would like to help fill a truck with requested food only for the Texas District, there is still time this week to do so.
 
Immanuel Hillside Food Pantry began accepting food donations this week from several Northern Illinois District churches and L.E.R.T. teams for those recovering from Texas Winter Storm Uri.
 
The following churches held food drives and made deliveries this week:

Good Shepherd, Frankfort
Immanuel, Des Plaines
Immanuel, Hillside
Immanuel, Palatine
Prince of Peace, Palatine
St. John, Wheaton
St. Matthew, Hawthorn Woods
St. Peter, Hampshire
Trinity, Roselle
Trinity, Villa Park

Jayne Siou, Director of Immanuel Hillside's “Put Your Hands Together” Food Distribution Ministry stated that their donations and LCC donor food will be delivered next Wednesday to the Texas LCMS District in San Antonio and the Central Texas Food Bank in Austin for immediate distribution to those in need.
 
The food donation truck(s) will be leaving Immanuel Hillside Food Pantry on Friday, March 19. Your support is greatly needed for the success of this mission and for all our Brothers and Sisters in Christ in Texas.
 
In our effort to provide emergency food and to follow our mission, we are requesting the following emergency food donations for our relief truck:
 

• canned meats (Spam, ham, tuna, chicken, Vienna sausage, etc.)
• shelf-stable complete meals
• protein bars & snack items (can be individual items as long as boxed)
• shelf-stable milk
• personal hygiene items (toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, deodorant, hand soap, bar soap, hand sanitizer)

DROP OFF LOCATIONS & TIMES:
 
Wednesday, March 17 | Donations by appt. only, contact Jayne Siou (708) 261-2006
Immanuel Lutheran Church
2317 S Wolf Rd,
Hillside, IL 60162
 
Thursday, March 18 | 11:30 am – 2:30 pm | Pop-a-Trunk or Truck donations
Veterans Distribution Warehouse - Dock #40-42
Hillside Food Pantry
5999 Butterfield Rd.
Hillside, IL 60162
 
Lutheran Church Charities can pick up large donations requiring a truck March 17th-18th. Contact Dianna Bonfield at 847-287-6624 to schedule a pickup.

Lutheran Church Charities continues to work through our Texas K-9 Ministry affiliate churches and District Disaster Response Coordinators to bring the Mercy, Compassion, Presence, and Proclamation of Jesus Christ to those suffering and in need.
 
Please prayerfully consider a donation to the LCC Texas Disaster Response Fund to help individuals, families, and churches now and during the long recovery process.

DONATE — LCC TEXAS DISASTER RESPONSE FUND