The Friendship Food Pantry, an agency extension of the Montgomery Food Bank, is open two days per month serving up to 200 families.  Low income, single parents, seniors and anyone facing a difficult time benefit from a wide range of food such as canned goods, dry goods, frozen meats, bread and pastries.  The pantry also provides cleaning products and paper goods. The pantry also helps with school supplies, Thanksgiving Baskets, and Christmas Baskets.  For exact food pantry dates, just call the church office at 281-354-2326.

Many volunteers make the food pantry a reality by transporting the products from the Montgomery Food Bank in Conroe, preparing snack packs for the kids, packing boxes to be distributed, sacking produce, registering clients and preparing lunch for the crew of volunteers. A great big thank you goes out to all who make this ministry possible. 

If you would like to help this great ministry you can donate food in the blue receptacle in the front lobby of the Sanctuary, you can donate money by just designating your gift to the food pantry or you can volunteer to help.  For more information you may contact the food pantry coordinator, Nancy Patton, at 281-358-3464. 

Ike Recovery in Galveston

This is from an email I recently received.  After reading it I had to share it with each of you.  This is why we have teams go to Galveston. - Margaret Goodson
Missions Coordinator

"Today I went to an apartment in Hitchcock to get some copies of paperwork from one of our people.  She is older and walks with a walker so I took my printer so it would be easy to make the copies for her.  We met.  I made the copies.  Then she said, "I want you to see the house and where we are on repairs."  I told her I did the paperwork, not the construction, but very sweetly she insisted I see the house.  I have known her from my work at HIS ministry so I felt ok giving her a ride to her home.  She probably wanted to get out of the apartment for a while.  At her house she gave me the tour and then pulled her house phone out of her purse and plugged it in.  She explained she was calling her granddaughter to compick her up.  I told her I would take her back.  She said, "I'm not ready to leave yet", and called her granddaughter.  It is 92 degrees, the house is not livable and she wishes for me to leave her there.  "I'll be fine," she insisted.  "It's cool under the shade tree and in the garage and my neighbors are right across the street.  They will see me and come visit."  She is determined to stay.  I can't pick her up and put her back in my car.  She wants to be home and this is her home.  This is her street, her neighbors, her yard, and her house.  She just wants to sit there for a while.  So I get two paint buckets and a board and make her a seat.  I leave.  She waves goodbye, smiling happily.  So I go home, grab a folding chair and some cold water and return.  I sat with her half the afternoon as her neighbors passed and waved and honked their horns.  Some stopped to speak.  Nearly a year after Ike, she was home.  But her house is still not ready for her to move in so she can't stay.  But for one hot September afternoon, she was home.  We still have so many that just want to be home.  If a team came in they could paint her walls and fix her doors, and lay flooring.  She could be home.  All we need are a few donated hours to make it happen.  And she could sit again in her front yard greeting her neighbors."