Mission Update: Volunteering for The Salvation Army Lunch Club

Despite the heat yesterday and today (Heat factors either 99 or 100), Jeanne and I helped pack (today) and deliver (yesterday and today) 15 boxes of food for the Salvation Army Lunch Club. [This program is funded by a grant from the USDA and augments the school lunch program that is suspended during the summer.] The SALC delivers 432 meals a week.

Jean Taylor helped pack over 40 bags of vegetables.

Each box has three meals per person and between three and six people per box. Jeanne and I delivered 7 boxes yesterday and 4 boxes today. We covered 73 miles of Hunterdon County in those two days making the deliveries.

— Duncan and Jeanne Taylor

Grace is Going Back to the Building....

Starting in September Grace UCC will resume in-person services at the Flemington Women’s Club, located at 43 Park Avenue, in Flemington NJ. But don’t worry, Zoom is sticking around, too. You’ll be able to choose to join us virtually, or in person according to your preference.

More info to come in the August “Grace Happens” update!

Standing Up for Justice in Milford

GUCC continues to join others from around the county on the last Saturday of every month to stand up for Justice and inclusion in Hunterdon County. The group meets every Saturday, and anyone is welcome to join them between 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon. Bring your own sign, or borrow one from the group.

Mission Update: Support for the D'Aversa's egg donation program

Many years ago, maybe 20, we bought some chickens to share their eggs with our family and two local food pantries; Somerset County and Flemington Pantry. We keep the flock steady at 14 hens and think of the eggs as gifts, no more, no less. As happens with circulating gifts, this one acquired another gift, that of a bag of feed delivered monthly to our front door from our church; Grace United Church of Christ of Flemington. (The monthly delivery piece is huge!) This congregation led by Dan Lundquist lives into the spirit of gifts knowing that gift exchange - not transactional exchange- is at the heart and soul of the social and spiritual cohesion of a community.

We thank you as do the ladies.

—Maggie D’Aversa

Note from the website curator: You can help support the D’Aversa’s mission, too. They always welcome egg cartons, and can also use your empty egg shells, which they grind up to add to the chicken’s feed.