Community Service Report and News Highlight

Your Beaverton Adventist Community Services has had a very busy year! 

The most exciting thing that happened was a new freezer! With your financial support and a nearly $5,000 grant from the Oregon Food Bank, we purchased a new commercial double freezer. The total cost of freezer, new sink and installation was about $9000. This substantially increased our freezer capacity! Thank you for your support!

From December 1, 2023 until November 30, 2024, we dispersed nearly 55 tons of food from the Oregon Food Bank and local donations to our neighbors in need. Thank you to Cheryl and Allen for organizing the gang of men needed to unload and put away 55 tons of food! That's a 57% increase from last year.

Each week we see between 50 and 75 families who come for food and clothing. Over the year we arranged food boxes more than 3,000 times. That is up 40% from last year. We also gave a way 1000’s of items of clothing. Our volunteers spent 3815 hours here unloading food, sorting clothes, dispersing food and clothing and cleaning up! We have the best volunteers!!!!

You too can help. We are working with Pathfinders to collect food in the blue box at the bottom of the stairs near the Fellowship Hall.

We need Coats of all sizes.

Can you volunteer one Monday a month to help unload the food from the Oregon Food Bank? We would be so glad for your help. Contact Stephanie or Cheryl