Food Insecurity

Love Thy Neighbor

Love Thy Neighbor (LTN) is an outreach of FUMC which provides food for our neighbors in the community who are facing food-insecurity. Every morning LTN provides non-perishable, pop-top ready-to-eat canned foods, snacks and nutrition drinks to the guests of the St. Andrew’s Breakfast Program. We welcome you to support LTN financially.

Learn more about LTN or sign up to volunteer.

Contact: lovethyneighbor2008@gmail.com

Crop Walk

The annual Washtenaw/Ann Arbor CROP Hunger Walk involves walkers and supporters raising funds to help those who are hungry. People from various faiths and groups in a community wide event and walkers of all ages walking a 1.8 mile route on a fall Sunday afternoon. Of the funds raised, 25% support hunger relief efforts in our community and 75% supports worldwide hunger relief work of Church World Service.

Contact: Spring Jackson

*Family friendly, youth volunteers welcome

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap is a group of people who are passionate about helping solve food insecurity issues in our community and Michigan. We are interested in educating ourselves, finding ways to decrease food insecurity and advocating for people experiencing food insecurity. We are supportive of two local endeavors: a monthly meal at Hope Clinic and Meals for Circles of Washtenaw County’s weekly program. We have also established FUMC’s participation in Bread for the World annual Offering of Letters to advocate for key federal funding and policies that help support people of all ages experiencing hunger and/or food insecurity.

Mind the Gap welcomes new members, contact us to learn more about participating.

Contact: Lynn Palacios

Hope Clinic

The food outreach program, for which volunteers are needed, has been extremely active in this COVID-19 period. Hope Clinic offers hot “to go” meals to consumers every evening (5-6 p.m.) except for Wednesdays and Fridays. Volunteers are needed for the 4th Thursday of each month at the clinic, 3-6:30 p.m. and at various other times throughout the week sorting and distributing food boxes.

Contact: Mark Giesler

Kenya Mission Project

FUMC partners with a rural Kenyan community to provide education and a sustainable feeding program to the poorest of the poor. The Bishop Lawi Imathiu Secondary School (BLISS) serves over 600 secondary school students and was built primarily with funds donated by FUMC Ann Arbor.

In addition, we are getting to know two other primary schools in the community that serve over 700 children living in acute poverty. Much of our recent focus has been on assisting the educational and feeding efforts at Gichunge Primary School. The mission team usually departs for Kenya in February.

Contact: Kathy Macdonald