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Today was ‘Go Orange for National Hunger Day’

06 Friday Sep 2013

Posted by HattieBelle in Church Community Services, Community Service Event, Compassion, Food Pantries, Food Pantry, Hunger, Indiana, National Hunger Day, Service, Volunteer

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One in six Americans don’t have enough to eat.

According to Marijo Martinec, the Director of Community Impact at the Food Bank of Northern Indiana, “Sixteen percent of residents in Northern Indiana don’t have enough to eat every single day.”

September is Hunger Action Month and Thursday and today, September 5th, was ‘Go Orange for Hunger Day’. In response, in 6 counties across Indiana, businesses and community members  proudly wore orange, to raise awareness about hunger insecurity.

Mike Downing, CCS Pantry Manager, celebrated hunger action day by sporting his orange shirt. Did YOU wear orange today?

Mike Downing, Church Community Services’ Pantry Manager, celebrated hunger action day by sporting his orange shirt. Did YOU wear orange today?

So far this year, Elkhart County’s food bank,Church Community Services has helped 15,580 families. 27,190 families  were helped by Church Community Services in 2012 and 27,395 families received help in 2011.

Church Community Services is located at 907 Oakland Ave., Elkhart, Indiana 46516. To volunteer, donate or inquire about services, call (574) 295-3673. For information on the Food Bank of Northern Indiana, you can visit their website.

HELP! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

08 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by HattieBelle in 2013, Community, Community Services, Compassion, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Farming, Food Aid, Food Pantries, Gardening, Indiana, Volunteer

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HELP!

Church Community Services is in need of some good hearted folk who aren’t afraid of doing some lifting, to help out in the warehouse. We need 4 people Monday – Friday from 12-3 p.m. If you can assist with any of those shifts, please contact Gwen at 574.295.3673.

Call soon, call often. Thank you!

Church Community Service Warehouse

Church Community Service Warehouse

People of all ages contribute their time and muscles to picking vegetables at Goshen's 'Feed to Seed' community garden.

People of all ages contribute their time and muscles to picking vegetables at Goshen’s ‘Feed to Seed’ community garden.

Volunteers needed to help harvest vegetables.

Church Community Services’ Feed to Seed gardens are starting to explode with fresh vegetables. Help is needed to harvest the produce.

As of today, Church Community Services’ food pantry program has provided a grand total of 23,468 lbs of vegetables so far this year to clients throughout Elkhart County!

Thanks to all the volunteers who give generously of their time and their muscles to help in our gardens. Listed below are all the gardens and scheduled work days.

PLEASE CALL IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE!

Goshen Garden: 14723 CR 36, Goshen. Mondays @ 5:30pm. Coordinator: Jeremy Shue: jeremyshue@gmail.com. 574-536-2010

Bullard Garden: 22104 CR 14, Elkhart. Tuesdays @ 5:30pm. Coordinator: Kurt Bullard: Kurtbullard4444@gmail.com. 574-298-9059

CCS Garden: 902 Thomas St, Elkhart. Wed & Thurs @ 8:00am. Coordinator: Katie Jantzen: mailto:Kurtbullard4444@gmail.com. 574-295-3673 ext 122

Northwest Goshen: 538 S. Indiana Ave, Goshen. Wednesdays @ 5:30pm. Coordinator: Andrea Milne andreajillmilne@gmail.com. 574-400-5858

Heart’s Desire Garden: 3030 Old US 20, Elkhart. Thursdays @ 5:30pm. Coordinator: Dave Hochstetler Dhhooch@aol.com. 574-349-4905

See you at the gardens!

The produce keeps rolling in!

26 Friday Jul 2013

Posted by HattieBelle in Church Community Services, Civic Engagement, Civic Service, Compassion, Elkhart County, Farming, Food, Food Pantry, Health, Indiana

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Please spread the word that Church Community Gardens is always looking for volunteers for their gardens. My husband and I have been working at the Goshen Garden on Monday nights and the people are so friendly. It is a great way to make new friends and although I admit to feeling sore sometimes afterwards, I don’t mind because the conversation and fellowship are so fulfilling:


Goshen Garden:
14723 CR 36, Goshen. Mondays @ 5:30pm. Coordinator: Jeremy Shue: jeremyshue@gmail.com. 574-536-2010

Bullard Garden: 22104 CR 14, Elkhart. Tuesdays @ 5:30pm. Coordinator: Kurt Bullard: Kurtbullard4444@gmail.com. 574-298-9059

CCS Garden: 902 Thomas St, Elkhart. Wed & Thurs @ 8:00am. Coordinator: Katie Jantzen: mailto:Kurtbullard4444@gmail.com. 574-295-3673 ext 122


Northwest Goshen:
538 S. Indiana Ave, Goshen. Wednesdays @ 5:30pm. Coordinator: Andrea Milne andreajillmilne@gmail.com.574-400-5858

Heart’s Desire Garden: 3030 Old US 20, Elkhart. Thursdays @ 5:30pm. Coordinator: Dave Hochstetler Dhhooch@aol.com. 574-349-4905

Church Community Services News

It’s fair week, and we’re pleased to report that the auction and tractor rides the Fair Board organized to benefit Seed to Feed brought in $1,620 dollars!  Thank you!


IMG_1514Julie Miers, Family Nutrition Program Assistant, was at the pantry on Tuesday to provide samples of simple recipes, and this week she spent much of her time educating interested clients about basic nutrition.  Here she is speaking to a group of women about healthy meal planning.


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Here they are!  The first Seed to Feed tomatoes of the season!  These came from the Goshen garden on Monday.


The CCS garden also had a few tomatoes ripe, as well as lots of yellow squash, patty pan squash, eggplants, yellow beans, purple beans, collards, kale, chard, hot peppers, and sweet peppers!


Adding this to the zucchini and cucumbers from the River Oaks garden and the zucchini from the Heart’s Desire garden, we’ve really got a…

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Elkhart Citizen proud to help his Elkhart County neighbors

10 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Achievement, Activism, Communication, Community, Community Service Event, Community Services, Compassion, Constitution, Crisis Intervention, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Hoosier, Soybeans, Volunteer

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“This a testament to the reach of hunger and the plight of people in need. What an excellent expression of Elkhart…. ” said Rob Robinson, executive director of Church Community Services in response to Mr. Singh of Franklin’s Citgo’s generous donation.

“Elkhart as been good to me and my family. I want to give something back to this community.” Mr. Singh, owner of Franklin’s Citgo, said his generous gift to Elkhart families in need was  his way of giving back to Elkhart County.

Thank you, Mr. Singh, for the financial gift you brought to us from your business. You’re helping us extend hope to lots of your neighbors. What a pleasure to meet you,” Rod Roberson, executive director of Church Community Services, is most appreciative of the support Church Community Services has received from businesses like Mr. Singhs and from much of the Elkhart Community.

The results of some of ‘Seed to Feed’s” first harvest. I can hardly believe the summer and food picking season is almost over.

Church Community Service’s Weekly ‘Seed to Feed’ Update…

Hi Everyone,
As summer is coming to a close, so will our gardens. But, we still have
some good harvests left to pick. We will go back to our regular schedule:
the Bullard Garden on CR17 will be picked on Monday, Sept 10th at 6:00 p.m.
This will probably be about our last picking. We might have one more on the
17th of Sept, but we will let you know.

The Goshen Garden on CR 36 will be picked on Tuesday, Sept 11, at
6:00 p.m. and we should have a “stellar” harvest of tomatoes and peppers. The
green beans are just about finished, but we still might get some this next
week.

The potato field will be tentatively be ready to pick up next Friday,
Sept.14. The field will be “turned” and then we have a 24 hr window to
pick up the potatoes before they turn green which is not good. We will need
about 50 volunteers with 5 gal buckets to pick them up and load them into
the containers that will then be loaded onto the semi. Date and details to
follow next early next week.

And finally, I’d like to thank the 7th grade class of St. Thomas School
for their wonderful support of the Seed to Feed program. They came to CCS
yesterday along with their teachers and mothers, took a tour of CCS to see
what happens on a daily basis at the Food Bank and then came to the Bullard
Garden to pick beans. The students, 50 in total, along with their teachers
and mothers all got down in the dirt and picked 430 lbs of green beans in
2 hrs. It was a good learning experience for the kids and what a wonderful
blessing for the Food Bank and the people they serve. Thank You kids,
teachers and mothers for your wonderful support!!!
Have a great weekend and we’ll see you at the gardens as we close out
the harvests over the next few weeks, and don’t forget the potato field.
Details will follow next week.

Blessings
Dave Hochstetler
Coordinator of the ‘Feed to Seed’ Program

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Help Labor of Love fill Elkhart County’s food pantries

30 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Activism, Caring, Civic Benefit, Civic Engagement, Civic Service, Community, Community Service Event, Community Services, Compassion, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Emergency Measures, Event, Faith-base, Food, Food Aid, Food Pantries, Fundraisers, Goshen, Indiana, Labor Day, Labor Day Weekend, Labor of Love Plans, Neighbors, Tea Party, Victory Center

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Your food donations are needed.

For 44 years, Elkhart Church Community Services Church Community Services, a faith-based not-for-profit agency has helped people in Elkhart County, Indiana, weather life’s storms and build more secure futures. They do do this through emergency assistance and intensive job and life skills training.

So far, in 2012 Church Community Services has assisted over 16,000 families.

Leave your non-perishable food items at businesses in boxes displaying this sign.

Food drop-off locations

Elkhart: Hart City Resale Store, Martin’s Grocery, Starbucks (U.S. 33), GOP Elkhart Victory Center, Miles Lab Restaurant, Sport’s Time Family Pub, McDowell Plating Co., Dibley Chiropractic Center & Family Video Stores

Goshen: Family Chiropractic Clinic

Wakarusa: Larimer Furniture Store, The Dime Store, The Dollar General Store (on Hwy. 19), Forest River Corp.

Mishawaka: Futon Factory, All Famiy Video Stores, B & B Molding and the Mishawaka GOP Victory Center

Kids waiting in the pantry while their parents shop.

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Elkhart County Sheriff impliments program that saves county money and reduces future crime

24 Friday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Achievement, Changing Lives, Civic Benefit, Civic Engagement, Civic Service, Civil Rights, Community, Community Services, Compassion, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Elkhart Indiana, Evidence-Based Programs, Indiana

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According to a 2-year-study from the Community Training and Resource Center implementing evidence-based programs in the Elkhart County Correctional Facility is helping inmates stay out of jail after they are released.

In a press conference Wednesday morning, Sheriff Brad Rogers said that programs in the jail such as the GED program and the “Thinking for a Change” program instead of simply warehousing the inmates, has reduced recidivism to 17 to 26 percent. For the population that did not go through the programs, the rates have stayed at 49 percent recidivism.

Deanne Anadon teaches a G.E.D. class at the Elkhart County Jail in Elkhart County on Wednesday. Anadon has taught G.E.D. classes for 15 years. (Truth Photo By Evey Wilson)

When ex-offenders continue to commit crimes, the community is victimized all over again. Life is less safe. Plus, as taxpayers, we don’t want to have to build more jails. Reducing the recidivism rate by just ONE percent keeps 7 offenders from committing crimes that will send them back to prison.

Rogers says inmates are often cynical when they start the court ordered program but not when they come out.

“What we find is that after they’ve completed the class, most of them are believers in that, ‘Yes, they can make a positive change in their life and a lot of it is just in their thought process.'”

Sheriff Rogers says 2,700 inmates went through the program from 2009 to 2011 and they are excited to get evidence that the programs are really working.

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We ARE our brother’s keeper: Elkhart County works together to assist neighbors in need

15 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Caring, Civic Benefit, Civic Engagement, Civic Service, Community, Community Service Event, Community Services, Compassion, Crops, Drought, Elkhart County, Enterprise, Event, Events, Farm, Farming, Food, Food Aid, FUN, Fundraisers, Goshen, Indiana, Journalism, Meeting, Meetings, People helping Neighbors, Philanthropic, Vegetables, Volunteer

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Helping hands come in all shapes and sizes.

Elkhart County’s community gardens bring people together of all ages and from every walk of life. You DON’T have to be an experienced gardener to be of assistance. One woman who picked beans last night told me that she had never before picked a bean in her life. But, she said she likes how working in the garden makes her feel. “This feeds people here in our community,” she explains. “We can get a little sweaty and dirty for someone else. Giving back is a good thing.”

Despite this summer’s earlier drought, I do not think it possible for the bean crop to have been MORE prolific. I have NEVER seen bean bushes so laden.

As the economic recession keeps demand at food banks running high, the “big need” and “big hearts” keep “Seed to Feed” volunteers motivated.

Hi, it’s me. I cheated and brought a garden cart to wheel around on.

Get involved! We believe God will continue to bring people and resources together to produce a harvest of vegetables as well as fruit in the lives of those giving and receiving.

Wow! Look at the results. According to Dave Hochstetler, Seed to Feed Coordinator, yesterday volunteers picked 210 pounds of beans and 94 pounds of cucumbers and tomatoes. All from the Goshen farm!

These tomatoes will be SO appreciated by Church Community Service’s food pantry clients!

‘Seed to Feed’s’ coordinator, Dave Hochstetler, says that the vegetables are coming in so plentifully that “Seed to Feed” needs 30 pickers each time: Mondays at 9 a.m., Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Tell your churches, tell your clubs, tell your families. Great group project. Call Dave for details: 574-349-4905 or dhhooch@aol.com .

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‘Seed to Feed’ has yielded 510 pounds of food so far this summer! More volunteers needed!

10 Friday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Achievement, Activism, Benefit, Caring, Civic Benefit, Civic Engagement, Civic Service, Community, Community Service Event, Community Services, Compassion, Elkhart County, Faith-base, Family times, Farm, Food, Food Aid, Food Pantries, FUN, Fundraisers, Gardening, Goshen, Hoosier, Indiana, Locations, Meetings, Neighbors, People helping Neighbors, Philanthropic, Volunteer

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Posted on August 10, 2012 by churchcommunityservices

Yield from the Goshen farm.

Beautiful produce from our beautiful Seed to Feed acre in Goshen.  Our clients are so happy!

Fresh vegetables for Elkhart Counties food pantries.

Fresh air, exercise, good honest dirt, and service that helps sustains CCS’s food supply: From now till the end of harvest season, Seed to Feed will need at least 15 volunteers 2 days a week. We will pick the green beans and sweet corn at the Bullard Garden every Monday at 9:00am. It is located on C.R.17 and Middlebury St, directly across from Sorg Jewelers on the west side of C.R.17.

The Fresh Produce Garden in Goshen will be picked every Tuesday at 7:00pm. It is located at 14723 CR36. It is just east of CR33 about 1/8 of a mile on the north side of CR36. The gardens are really starting to produce nice yields each week and should until the end of the season. If you can help, please contact Church Community Services either by email (dhhooch@aol.com) or phone (574-349-4905).

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The Red Barn/Humane Society of Elkhart County needs resale items

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Cats, Civic Benefit, Civic Engagement, Community, Community Service Event, Community Services, Compassion, Dogs, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Food, Fundraisers, Humane Society of Elkhart County, Indiana, Pet Adoption, Pet Food Assistance, Philanthropic, Stray Animals

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The Humane Society of Elkhart County’s ‘Red Barn Resale Shop’ is accepting gently used clothes, furniture, household items, books and gift items.

Donations can be dropped off at the Humane Society of Elkhart County, 54687 C.R. 19, Bristol, Indiana. ( One mile off of C.R. 17 off of S.R. 120.) For more informantion call: 574-848-4225.

~ Sale Days ~

Please join us on our sale days Friday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. including August 10 & 11; PET FEST DAY on August 18 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.; August 27 & 28; September 14 & 15; September 28 & 29; October 12 & 13; October 26 & 27; November 9 & 10.

They depend upon us. PLEASE don’t let them down.

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Come to the Table: Dinner/Auction Event

06 Monday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Community, Community Service Event, Community Services, Compassion, Faith-base, Indiana, Volunteer

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C O M E   T O   T H E  T A B L E

D I N N E R / A U C T I O N  E V E N T 

A UNIQUE CULINARY EXPERIENCE YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS!    \

SATURDAY AUGUST 11, 2012

6 to 10 p.m. at the newly renovated Coppes Commons

Upper Room Event facility – 401 E. Market St., Nappanee, IN

Featuring locally grown food prepared by some of Northern Indiana’s most noted Chefs, including…

Kevin Crouch of Charlie’s Butcher Block and Deli Stephanie Hapner of Crazy Day

Gourmet Steve Helmuth of Rocket Science Ice Cream

Emily Hershberger of Veni’s Sweet Shop

Chase Hinton of Cerulean

Andrew Jones of Viand Chef Services

Pat Knott of Classic Catering / The Old Train Depot

Zach Lucchese of Lucchese’s Renee Lyles of Table 52, The Brown Trout, Chicago, IL

Dustin Mattern of Mattern’s Butcher Shop and Corner Deli

Amy Maurer of Elegance in Thyme (Nelson’s) Karla Miller of Teapot & More

Marcus Miller of Main Street Coffee

Margaret Potuck of Happy Dance Cupcakes

Loren Shaum, Local Chef and Cookbook Author Scott Woods of Noa Noa

Local Farms & Food Providers…

Clay Bottom Farm

Four Rail Farm

Goldwood Gardens

Grass is Greener Meats & Produce

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Martin’s Super Markets

Olive Branch Rentown

Amish Country Store

TICKETS $60 PER PERSON

All proceeds will support Family Christian Development Center which served more than 5,500 families in 2011 through its food pantriy, well-baby programs, clothing ministry and programs in medication and crisis assistance.

Family Christian Development Center
151 South Locke St
Nappanee IN 46550
Phone: (574) 773-2149
Fax: (574) 773-5337
Email: fcdc@fcdcin.org

Office Hours:
Mon-Fri 9am-12pm & 1pm-4pm

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