Summer Lunch Program: Volunteer to help serve lunches to hungry children! This summer, St. Andrew’s needs volunteers to help serve in the summer lunch program that we offer in partnership with Grace United Methodist our neighbor on Salem Avenue. Children are offered a hot meal, peaceful activities and a safe place to go during the summer. Please help us feed hungry kids over the summer months when children won’t receive free school lunches. For some children, this is their first and sometimes only meal of the day.

Gracekids Lunch Program will serve lunch June 21 through August 6 (Monday – Friday) from 12-1:00 p.m. One or two volunteers are needed each day to assist the program coordinators from 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. to help set up, serve food, and clean up. Children will also be offered opportunities for arts and crafts, stories, and other special activities each day following lunch. To sign-up (even to volunteer just once!) call St. Andrew’s parish office (278-7345) Monday – Thursday mornings or contact Amelia Boomershine, Grace Church’s Director of Children’s Ministries, at 278-4731 or amelia@graceumc.com. The summer lunch program coordinator is named Dianne Jordan and she will give you instructions about what to do when you arrive.

Dayton Episcopal Food Pantry is a collaborative effort of many of the churches in our Dayton Deanery, including St. Paul’s, St. George’s, Christ Church Dayton, St. Andrew’s and St. Margaret’s. Operating out of St. Andrew’s, we offer food and toiletries to those in need in our neighborhood and beyond. The pantry is open the third and fourth Saturdays of the month and is also open by appointment during the week. If you would like to volunteer on the fourth Saturday of the month, please contact St. Andrew’s parish office at 278-7345 or Emily Jobe at 231-5402. Thank you to all who help our Dayton Episcopal food pantry by your donations of food, money and time. Any gift is greatly appreciated and is given directly to a person in need!

Saturday Lunch at the House of Bread: Thank you to everyone who has helped serve Saturday lunch at the House of Bread during the first half of this year. Your dedication and hard work have helped to feed many hungry people. The House of Bread Community Kitchen serves free, hot lunches to anyone in need. We serve the third Saturday of each month for most of the year, then take a summer hiatus. We will take June, July, and August off. We will return in September! Thanks again for all the help and support! It has been wonderful to serve side by side with so many of you. If you are interested in learning more about this ministry or would like to help please contact Phyllis DeMarco at 898-4820.

Thank you to Otto Anderson, Ann Couch, Sam Davis and Jack Koepke for their volunteer efforts with the Deanery during Rebuilding Dayton Together!