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New Point Church is excited to host the Meals From The Heartland event.

Volunteers will be packaging meals that will be sent to those who are starving.

When you package meals, you’re helping thousands of hungry people throughout the world. The packaged meals are transported directly to locations where people are undernourished or starving. Not only are you helping people in need, but meal packaging is also a fun, easy way for all ages to volunteer.

In addition to packaging the meals, we will also be purchasing all the supplies so we can to be a blessing not just with volunteers but to help contribute to the cost of the meals.

A donation basket will be available at the event if you would like to contribute.

The packing location for the event is New Point Church.

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We have two opportunities this year to help fill bags with food and snacks for kids whose basic needs such as nutrition are not met on the weekends. These food bags help fill that void as they are filled with food for them to take home over the weekend.

The volunteers for this event will meet at New Point Church to assemble the bags. One group will deliver to Harding Middle School in Des Moines and the other group will deliver to Metro West High School in Urbandale.

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This team will prepare a meal for 50 people total

It will be ready to serve at 6 p.m. for the Ronald McDonald House and the Ronald McDonald Family Room, which is located at Mercy Hospital.

The meal must be prepared in their kitchen that will be reserved for your use from 3-6pm.
A portion of the meal will be delivered to Mercy Hospital.

If you like to cook and have the gift of hospitality, this would be a perfect opportunity for you to serve.

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This is an outreach event geared towards being a blessing to single parents. Break Time is an event sponsored by Single Parent Provision that allows single parents some much needed “free-time” without their children. Volunteers from New Point will be helping to assist with childcare on this night so that single parents can drop off their kids for a while and have a break.

This event will take place at McKinley Elementary School in Des Moines.

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New Point Church is partnering with King Elementary School in Des Moines to help with projects to improve the playground area, the nurse’s office, the teacher’s lounge and the school food pantry. With many students being food insecure at home, we will add shelving and stock the food pantry to make it easier for them to provide food to students in need.

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New Point Church will help with minor repairs and projects at homes of families within our community. These will include minor repairs and projects around their homes that they don’t have the time, resources, and/or knowledge to take care of on their own. This is an opportunity for anyone who may be handy to use their skills to be a blessing to these families in our community.

The times will vary for this project, but you will know ahead of time what time slots and projects are available.

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We have partnered with the Urbandale Community Action Network to deliver care packages to families in neighborhoods near our church. Volunteers will be organized into groups to make the visits. The baskets will be picked up at New Point that day prior to delivery. This is a great opportunity for families.

Following the deliveries, we will join together for lunch at New Point to hear how the visits went and share how we were able to show the love of Jesus to those around us.

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There are several elderly residents in Urbandale who do not receive regular visits from family or friends. Join us as we reach out to encourage these residents and show them the love of Jesus by delivering fall baskets. Volunteers will be organized into groups to make the visits. Each group will visit about 3 residents. Meet at New Point Church to collect items to deliver. This is a great opportunity for families.

Following the deliveries, we will join together for lunch at New Point to hear how the visits went and share how we were able to show the love of Jesus to those around us.

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Everyone is invited to participate in Pack the Pantry

We will need about 10 volunteers to be on-site to
* help hand out cards,
* help load/unload trucks and
* help to deliver to the food pantries at the end of the event.

We will shop at the Urbandale Hy-Vee and a team will deliver the food to the Urbandale/Waukee food pantries.