PARSIPPANY — St. Andrew Lutheran Church, located at 335 Reynolds Avenue, collected non-perishable food donations during October. The congregation has been donating to the Parsippany Emergency Food Pantry on a monthly basis for many years and during 2015 collected an ‘item of the month’.
January 2015 marked the beginning of St. Andrew’s 50th year of ministry in Parsippany and many congregational members strived to conduct outreach projects with the magic number of 50 as their goal. The church’s liaison to the pantry, Lisa Wedemeyer, obtained a list from the food pantry of their most needed items and we incorporated an each month.
“I am happy to report that each month our congregation far exceeded my expectation of achieving the 50 item goal that was set monthly,” said Kim Stecher, event coordinator. “Even though it was requested that each member bring in only 1 of the specified non-perishable item, our members brought in multiply items for each month.” “As a congregation, it would be safe to say that St. Andrew donated well over 150 pounds of food during the 12 months!”
St. Andrew, a barrier-free and accessible church, is located at 335 Reynolds Avenue. As a congregation we seek to do God’s work with our hands. For more information and directions please click here or call (973) 887-6713.
