An Extreme Heat Warning was issued for Phoenix this morning for the entire weekend. The Mission Chapel will be open as a respite site, so the homeless can get relief from the heat. PRM’s shelter facility will be accepting bottled water, sunscreen and white tee shirts to keep our clients cool.
When school’s out for summer, so are school lunches.
Unfortunately, this compounds Arizona’s hunger problem at a time when food donations are incredibly low. In Arizona, one in five children goes to bed hungry, according to the 2009 USDA hunger survey. You can help the Phoenix Rescue Mission as we turn hunger into hope for children this summer by gathering all the items on our flyer and dropping them off at the Family Outreach Center at 3532 W Thomas, STE 9, Phoenix AZ 85019.
We’ll be giving every child attending our Back to School event at the end of the month a “Pack A Sack” to give them a head start on their school lunch kits!
Gap Volunteers at our food pantry packed 116 food boxes, which is enough food to feed a family of four three meals a day for four days. This means they helped us provide 1,392 meals to hungry people! They also packed over 320 Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Bags which feed an individual for three days. We thank them for putting their compassion for the hungry In Action!
If your group would like to volunteer please visit our website www.phoenixrescuemission.org
Thanks to your gifts and over 1,600 hours volunteered last month…
· We served 23,024 meals to hungry and hurting people
· We provided over 3,520 safe nights of shelter
· We gave emergency food boxes to 4,295 families in need
· We distributed over 8,000 bottles of water to homeless people on the streets of Phoenix
On behalf of all the men, women and children YOU helped in May, we say THANK YOU!
As part of their “RED (Renew, Energize and Donate) Day” Keller Williams Real Estate volunteers gave time at Phoenix Rescue Mission, packing food boxes, doing lawn work, building desks, varnishing the chapel walls and cleaning. They also helped sort and count backpacks for our upcoming back to school drive. Thank you to everyone who participated!
For their birthdays this year, the Craik kids, Teya (10), Keegan (9) and Dayton (6) wanted to bless as many families as they could instead of receiving gifts. They collected donations and today they dropped off 306 pounds of food, 11 cases of diapers and $55.00!
Find out how your family can help, visit www.phoenixrescuemission.org/getinvolved
Bring your pitching arm and cases of bottled water, lip balm and sunscreen to help prevent homeless and elderly deaths this summer in Phoenix!
1 case of bottled water = 1 pitch
$5 = 1 pitch
Sunscreen = 1 pitch
For more information check out our event on Facebook at http://bit.ly/9M5NYs or call Marlena at 602.272.4663.
The Mission’s free book for April’s is “The Rising Hope” by Charles Swindoll. “When life hurts and dreams fade, nothing helps like hope.” Within the pages of this small, powerful booklet, you’ll discover an everlasting, inexhaustible hope you can draw from every day for the rest of your life.
To request your free copy today. Email Janie at prm@phoenixrescuemission.org or call 602.346.3335. One copy per person and please include your name and mailing address when making your request.
