April 10, 2024
April 6, 2024, Calvary Food Pantry -- "Take me out to the Ballpark!" Yes you heard it here first! What an exciting day at the Bill Moore Community Park in Fletcher on Saturday! It was the Fletcher Youth Baseball & Softball Opening Day Celebration and Calvary Food Pantry Benefit. Not only did Mayor Preston Blakely throw out the first pitch, but all 300 youth baseball and softball players donated a canned good or made a monetary donation to the Pantry. Over 400 pounds of food items were donated along with a $250.00 check from the Youth League and $233.00 from raffle ticket sales. All funds will be used to purchase food from Manna where we can purchase 4 cans to the dollar. We appreciate having the opportunity to celebrate this special event with the families in the Fletcher community. Your contributions will help in reducing food insecurity in our community.
Meanwhile, back at the Pantry, a van of fourteen students from Christ School arrived at the Pantry. They unloaded 124 cans of fruit from a food drive held at the campus. Next they spent the morning at The Lord's Acre of Fletcher, our garden, spreading wood chips throughout the garden aisles and around the blueberry bushes. If you're in the garden area on Saturday morning around 10:00, join us to observe the Nativity Lutheran youth paint a mural that they designed on the garden shed.
Saturday was a very busy day for our volunteers at the pantry. We welcomed 127 households representing 470 individuals and registered four new families composed of 19 individuals.
On behalf of the Executive Committee, thank you to our volunteers and our area churches, civic groups, local merchants, and families for all you do to feed our community helping to reduce food insecurity. We thank you and appreciate your food and monetary donations.
--Fred Yopps, fyoppsCECFP@gmail.com
April 9, 2024, The Lord’s Acre, Fletcher – No work session this week. Because of a planting lull, and likely tons of rain, we will not gather Thursday afternoon for our regular work session. But, never fear! We’ll be getting 250 tomato and pepper plants in the next few weeks that need volunteer hands to get in the ground.
Christ School Brings It Again. Thanks to Christ School students who braved a cold wind on Saturday to spread wood chips and refurbish blueberry bush mounds. Update on blueberries: We have removed thirty bushes that were languishing in damp clay and replanted them in hills with good topsoil and compost. We expect a good crop in 2025.
Nativity Youth to Paint Mural on Garden Shed. Youth from Nativity Lutheran will be painting a mural of their own design on the side of the garden shed this Saturday morning. Can’t wait to see what they do!
Blessing for a Garden. Lord of Creation, who planted your own garden called Eden, come and bless this soil which is to be our garden. All that dies becomes earth, and so it lives again. May this garden soil be both womb and tomb, a home for death and life, so that seeds of living things—of plants, of food and flowers—may die and resurrect here in our garden. Gentle earth, be blessed with our love as we work in you. Make us mindful that one day you will be our final bed of love and ecstasy. – Edward Hays, Prayers for the Domestic Church.
--Doug Kearney, The Lord’s Acre, Fletcher
