{"id":26116,"date":"2020-11-11T09:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T14:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=26116"},"modified":"2021-01-17T14:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T19:29:56","slug":"pumc-to-collect-turkeys-for-hollydell-families-11-15-20-11-22-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=26116","title":{"rendered":"PUMC to Collect Turkeys for HollyDELL Families (11\/15\/20 &#038; 11\/22\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">One of our Thanksgiving Traditions is to provide Thanksgiving baskets to HollyDELL school.\u00a0 This year, we have a goal of collecting\u00a0 turkeys which will packaged into Thanksgiving baskets.\u00a0 Our goal is to brighten the holiday for AT LEAST 25 of these food insecure families.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">HollyDELL<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>HollyDELL school is a local organization that provides a place for physically challenged youth and young adults, and also for their families.\u00a0 Members of these families include children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, autism and other developmental delays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HollyDELL has four facilities and they serve families in Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, Camden, Burlington and Atlantic counties.\u00a0 And, they provide all of their services to these families free of charge.\u00a0 At HollyDELL, clients are given educational and therapeutic programs which support their dignity and respect while leading them to be as functionally independent as possible.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about HollyDELL, visit their website:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href='http:\/\/hollydell.org\/' class='icon-button heart-icon' target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HollyDELL School<\/span><span class='et-icon'><\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Talkin&#8217; Turkey!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Jesus called us to love one another.\u00a0 Even as He knelt by the blind, touched the lepers, and wept over Jerusalem, the Spirit of Christ within us beckons us to come along side of those in need.\u00a0 We are surrounded by those who need our help and love, and among those are the HollyDELL families who gather at the HollyDELL facility in Glassboro (behind the Friendlys and CVS on Charles III drive).<\/p>\n<div class='et-box et-download'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">You Can Help!<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you can donate a turkey (or two), here are the details on how you can help:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">WHERE<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 Leave your turkey in the pantry shopping card (which will be located outside the church, near the Narthex door.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">DAYS<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 On Sunday Nov. 15 OR on Sunday Nov. 22<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">TIMES<\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From 9:30 to 11:30 AM\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<p>For further information, contact either Grace Kier or Marshall Genter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Getting Stuffed!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In addition to turkey, a proper Thanksgiving meal needs &#8220;the trimmin&#8217;s&#8221; too!\u00a0 Non-perishable items such as stuffing, canned vegetables, etc will be added to the turkeys to create a complete &#8220;Thanksgiving Dinner to Go.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boy Scout Troop 55 will canvass the neighborhood to conduct a food drive.\u00a0 They will hang specially marked bags on doors and then pick them up a week later.\u00a0 The bags will be distributed on Saturday 11\/16 and then picked up at your home on Saturday 11\/23.\u00a0 They will deliver the collected items to the Pitman Food Pantry.\u00a0 The items they collect will be used both at the pantry and for the HollyDELL baskets.\u00a0 Because of your generosity, at least 25 food insecure families will be able to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner and get a taste of God&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thanksgiving is on Thursday 11\/26.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #ccffcc;\">Be on the lookout for the Scout&#8217;s food drive bags on Saturday 11\/16.\u00a0 Please give generously and help provide Thanksgiving meals for the needy in our neighborhood and for our special friends at HollyDELL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; 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The Pantry shopping cart will be outside of the church (near the Narthex doors)  for this collection.  You can drop turkeys off at the church on the mornings of Sundays 11\/15 and 11\/22 (9:30-11:30 AM).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,55,208],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-26116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evann","category-mission-aroundtowns","category-pitman-food-pantry","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26116"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26129,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116\/revisions\/26129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}