Many months ago, about the time of my last blog, life got busy. First my work hours temporarily started including graveyard shifts and soon thereafter I got engaged and married. A few months before that I began partnering with a number of organizations. You might recall 10th feed when we partnered with two churches and a fraternity from UW for a mass Saturday feeding. It turned out that one of the those churches, Coal Creek Chapel in Bellevue, really loved what we were doing and how we were going about it. They continued to serve the homeless on the streets of Seattle even when I had to temporarily bow out of leadership duties. Well the time has come where they are looking to step it up a notch, and I am ready to become fully vested yet again to this great effort I started a number of years ago.
Here is where we stand:
Saturday Feeds - Every fourth Saturday we are going down to Occidental Park and setting up. Recently this has included enough stuff to make MANY bowls of teriyaki chicken. We also distribute any and every thing we have, or can have donated. At these Saturday feeds we also like to create snack packs and take some mobile backpack teams to distribute under the viaduct, on the side of I5, and other places that people in need tend to congregate. The next Saturday Feed is on January 23rd. Bring some stuff to distribute if you can, bring a friend or two, and lets feed some people in need.
FeedSeattle Mobile - We are ready to get back into the activity that this model was founded on, which is loading up the backpacks and meeting the people on the streets with snacks and sock ready to go. I know this is WAAAAAY last minute, but we are jumping into it again this comming Thursday, 1.14.10. Our model is a bit different than last time around. Instead of having you donate money for the next feed, we are asking people to make 10-12 snack packs themselves ahead of time and bring them on down. It's as easy as hitting costco/canned food warehouse/biglots/etc and getting some individually wrapped snacks along with a few gallon sized zip lock bags to put them in.
More information here: http://feedseattleoutreach.org/default.aspx
Email me any questions or comments. I hope to see some of you old skool FeedSeattlers at an upcomming event, if I don't recognize you PLEASE let me know you are from the old skool.
That's that for now!
ToddS
todd@wetfoot.net
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