Would you love to show our gratitude for our servicemen and women who worked so hard to serve on 9/11? Take the time next week to engage in conscious acts of service throughout our area during the week of National Day of Service (11th-17th). What will you do to serve?
Here are some ideas!
Individual Activity Ideas
Make a treat for your neighbor
Minister to others
Forgive a grudge, end/remove conflicts in your personal life (President Nelson’s Invitation)
Offer to change the batteries in the smoke detectors of your ministering families or class members you teach
Make (quilt, crochet, knit, sew) baby blankets for newborns. Deliver to Shasta Community Health Center
Call or text someone you haven’t seen in awhile
Family Activity Ideas
Make sack lunches to hand out to strangers
Walk a trail, or your neighborhood and pick up trash
Go through games and puzzles, Donate to Good News Rescue Mission or One Safe Place or Pathways to Housing
Create care packages for military personnel or local first responders
With a group or as a family
As a group sing patriotic songs at a community location, invite your friends - Sundial Bridge, VFW, Veterans home, nursing homes
Gather food items and donate to:
Hill Country Community Clinic- CARE Center on Gold or Center of Hope on Industrial
Pathways to Housing- 1871 Kenyon Dr.
Dignity Health Connected Living- 100 Mercy Oaks Dr.
Salvation Army- Larkspur for food donations, westside rd. for clothing
Here are is a list of items that they will take (individual portions are better than large):
Costco:
Chicken of the Sea Tuna, 7 oz.,12 pk which have pop tops! (Pop tops are the best for unsheltered folks!)
Del Monte 20 pack of mixed types of fruit cups
Quaker 52 packet Oatmeal
Kirkland Protein Bars, 20 count
Kirkland Chewy 10 g Protein bars, 42 count
Cliff Bar 10 gram protein, 2.4 oz bars, 26 count
Kirkland Snacking Nuts, 30 pk, or
Kirkland Trail Mix, 28 ct
Ensure 30 pk drinks, any flavor, or
Premier Protein, 18 pk, any flavor.
Other Items:
Austin Crackers (or similar types w/cheese and/or pb),
Granola bars (Cliff are the healthiest for the money, the ones that aren’t all chocolate),
Raisins (single serving packages)
Peanuts in small bags
Poptop cans with proteins:
Soups, Stews, Chili, Pork and Beans, Meats (tuna, chicken, spam, beef, pork, etc.)
Chef Boyardee
Canned beans and vegetables
Juices (small sizes, V-8 low sodium)
Applesauce
Jams/jellies
Tuna
sleeves of crackers (Ritz, Saltines, etc.)
Milk alternatives – soy, almond, etc.
Protein shakes
Instant Oats
Nut Butters – peanut, almond, or other nuts.
Instant mashed potatoes
pasta (lots of smaller packages are better)
Pasta-roni or Rice-aroni
rice (again lots of smaller packages are better)
Pathways to Housing specific:
Shampoo & Conditioner
Soap
Toothpaste
Lotion,
Bottled water
Canned food or non-perishable food
Can openers
Any fresh fruits and vegetables
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