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Klondike Derby – February 4
Feed My Starving Children (Service Outing) – February 10

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is a non-profit Christian organization committed to feeding children hungry in body and spirit.  The approach is simple: children and adult volunteers hand pack meals specifically formulated for malnourished children, and Christian and humanitarian relief organizations partner with FMSC to deliver the food to children around the world.

Troop 24, along with Girl Scout Troop 657, will be participating in a joint service opportunity to package food.

Friday, February 10, is an early release day for District 96 scouts. Scouts and chaperones will meet at RPC at 1:00 p.m. and drive to the FMSC location in Aurora. We anticipate returning to RPC at ~5:30 p.m.. There is no cost for this outing/service project.

We need a lot of chaperones/adult volunteers for this outing. The adult to scout ratio requirement for this age group is 1 : 4. If you are interested in volunteering and chaperoning, please indicate your interest when registering your scout.

To register, please fill out our registration form: http://troop24riverside.com/2012/01/feed-my-starving-children-service-project-21012-form/

For more information on Feed My Starving Children check out their web site at http://www.fmsc.org/

Contact Susan Lynch with questions.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered to donate food to our Night Ministry food prep. The main activity for this Thursday’s meeting will be making soup and PBJ sandwiches.

Here is the list of what everyone volunteered to bring:

Andersen – 200 bags
Bork – 5 bags mixed veggies, 5 loaves bread
Connelly – 1 Peanut butter
Culloden – 5 cans stewed tomatoes
Lanken – 4 PB, 1 jelly
Lennon – 2 PB, 2 jelly
Gmitro – beef bouillon, 3 lbs ground beef.
Gryczan – 6 loaves
Jones – 2 loaves, 2 PB
Machina – 5 bags frozen veggies
Marcou – 3 lbs browned ground beef
McCoy – 5 loaves
Olszewski – 5 cans stewed tomatoes
Ozga – 1 loaf white bread, 1 wheat, 1 Peanut butter, 1 jelly
Quinn – 10 loaves
Ringbloom – 3 lbs browned ground beef
Salij – 1 PB

Please have your scout bring food to the meeting on Thursday. We will meet in the Social Hall. Contact Dawn Gmitro with questions.

Troop 24 is planning to prepare peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and vegetable beef soup to support the Night Ministry (see http://www.thenightministry.org/. During our regularly scheduled Troop meeting on Thursday, January 12, scouts will be making sandwiches and soup for 200 people for the Night Ministry delivery the next day. We need food donations to make this possible. Listed below are the total amounts we need. To sign up, please fill in the amount you are able to donate. (i.e., 3 – 20 oz. bags of frozen veggies). Scouts should bring the food to the meeting or drop it off in the RPC kitchen before the meeting. Thank you in advance for your generosity. You will receive a confirmation email. Contact Dawn Gmitro with questions.

Fill out the form to volunteer: http://troop24riverside.com/2012/01/night-ministry-form/

Since 1939 Riverside Presbyterian Church has chartered Troop 24.  Here is an opportunity to show our appreciation to the church that has provided so much for our Troop.

Join the RPC Church Family and fellow scouts in the All Church Family Work Day on November 13 from 1-3 pm.  We will be raking leaves and cleaning up around the church property.  Scouts should bring a rake and work gloves.  No sign up needed … just show up!   Time spent helping will count towards service hours needed for your rank advancement.

Remember – Do a Good Turn Daily!  Scouts be sure to check in/out with Mrs. Lynch so she can record your attendance and service hours.

Contact Susan Lynch with questions.

Thank you to scouts and families who have brought in canned goods for the Riverside Food Pantry. This is the last week we will be collecting food, so if you have not already done so (or even if you have), you are invited to make a contribution of any non-perishable foods.

Don’t forget that the Troop is collecting canned foods for the Riverside Food Pantry during the month of October. Please bring any contributions to the Troop meeting tonight or next Thursday.

During the remainder of the month we will be collecting canned foods as a service project in conjunction with RPC. The food will be given to the Riverside Food Pantry (to the extent that they need it, and extra will go to 1st Presbyterian in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago for their food pantry). Scout families are invited to send cans of food with their scouts to the Troop meetings on October 13, 20, 27. Thanks for your generosity!