Morning tea on Main Street

Fare-Sharing

Emma and Brooke in the middle of their 'Fare-Sharing'! 

Last week we did up boxes of food for about 10 different households, which include fruit and vegetables, packaged goods and frozen meat.  It's great to be able to re-distribute and bless others with food that would otherwise be thrown away.  We are very thankful for all that we receive through Fareshare and we enjoy giving others these 'goodies', both to those who ask for help and those who don't.  A gift is a pleasure to give, no matter who receives it.

Emma.

Cooking for Terry's Tucker

A group of us from elishacare had the privelage of preparing and serving the meal Terry's Tucker (the local community meal) in Lilydale.

Isn't it amazing that in the midst of serving others, we are the ones that are most touched?

 

Well done team for such a great arvo and night serving together, and a special thanks to Emma for guiding the team.




Geoff.

"fareshare"

We have just been introduced to an amazing place in Abbottsford called "Fareshare". Its a not for profit organisation that rescues surplus and close to use by date foods, from going in the bin. Each day they have vans that go around Melbourne to different grocrey outlets and pick up fruit, veges, meats etc. They then support other not for profit organisation with this food.

So once a fortnight Danny and I (sometimes Leanne or Esther) head into town with the eskys in the back of the wagon to collect the food. We then get it all back to our place and Leanne and I divvy it all up into hampers and share it amongst elishacare community and anyone else in need. Fortnightly we get about 50 kg of various meats and 30 kg of fruit and veges and whatever other goodies they have around the place. The thing that amazes me is that its perfectly good food that would otherwise go in the bin. Its really exciting to be apart of giving out this food and blessing families and individuals.

Brooke.