Al's Outreach Outtakes

Originally I intended to write this article about Spring Break and how, for many families within the Beaverton School District, it becomes a challenging week. Approximately 36% of all students (almost 15,000) qualify for Free&Reduced meals. Even if you assume three of these children come from the same family, that is 5,000 families who need to figure out how to feed their kids while school is out. A tough enough challenge for one week; an incredibly difficult one when there are two or more weeks strung together.
 
As in years past, Holy Trinity was already working with others in the community to insure the homeless students at Beaverton High School received food over spring break. With the various precautionary measures that have been put in place, standard protocols were changed, but the effort to provide food continued. Over 150 students received five bags of food each to help them through.
 
Here at Holy Trinity, as of this writing, the Food Closet remains open and will continue to do so, in some capacity, as long as we have the capability. As I have said many times over the years, hunger takes no breaks. While we are taking extra precautions and have modified our protocols, we are here to serve. The community we support needs us, perhaps now more than ever. With your on-going support, the dedication of many volunteers and God’s blessings we intend to do what we can in service to others.
 
Please pray for all of those who need the help of our Food Closet that they may receive the assistance they need; please pray for our volunteers and their families that they remain healthy; please pray that the efforts being taken quickly reduce this health issue and that those affected recover quickly.