Student Contributor -D. Bishop
Life River Fellowship – Supplying Needs Program Goals:
1) To give without any strings attached to individuals. We desire to meet material needs all while sharing the Love of Christ.
2) To help other groups, organizations, and churches with material items so they can continue in their efforts to reach our community!
3) To be a One-Stop-Shop for groups who have a desire to make a difference in their community.
What IS SUPPLYING NEEDS: Supplying Needs is program of Life River Fellowship. We collect corporate and private donations of food, clothing, office supplies, toys, furniture and other much needed items. We then distribute these items free of charge to the local community. All our volunteers are 100% unpaid and we operate with a minimal budget. Supplying Needs depends on the generosity of people and companies for the items we truly need to continue in our efforts.
WHAT WE DO: Supplying Needs gives directly to the poor, hungry, homeless, elderly, and people who are struggling to make ends meet. We also give to groups who are already helping their local community. We were operating out of Stockton, California where we distributed, in a 5 year period, 3 million dollars worth of food, clothes, and other supplies, free of charge, directly to people as well as other groups who were helping those in need. As of now we have moved to Spokane, Washington and are starting from scratch. We have an 8 pallet box truck but are in need of warehouse space so we can start collecting items to help people.
A partnership with Life River Fellowship is easy as they do most of the work for you. As a class we made flyers and distributed them to other classes, we put a box at the front door by the office for students to put dry/non-perishable food items in and one in our classroom. The students made a 2 minute presentation that they went to other classes in groups of 3(we have 21 kids so it made the groups even) and explained the benefits to our local community and people in need. The class also asked the principle if they could put daily reminders on the morning announcements to bring in a can of food each and put it in the donation box. After 4 weeks, Pastor Butler, picked the items up there at the school and gave a small appreciation speech to our students. The kids met and exceeded their goal of 100 items and earned a dance party.
