Casa San Jose Emergency Food Program

We have a new opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus by grocery shopping for our neighbors who are clients of Casa San Jose and who are afraid to do it themselves. Every 5 weeks we will be ordering food from Aldi, delivering it to Bower Hill, repacking it into individual bags, and delivering it to the Casa San Jose offices. Casa will deliver these bags to their clients.

This project will involve food for over 25 families; between 40 and 50 cases of nonperishables. Because of the quantities, we are going to need younger and stronger folks than is our usual cohort of volunteers.

Here is how you can help.

• Volunteer to be trained and on the team for placing the Instacart order with Aldi.

• Volunteer to be one of our grocery couriers who would arrive at Aldi on Friday or Saturday of our assigned week with enough vehicle space and muscle to load up and deliver 40 to 50 cases of food to Bower Hill Church. We may need more than 1 vehicle to do this.

• Volunteer to be at Bower Hill Church when the food arrives to stack it ready for putting into individual grocery bags.

• Volunteer to be trained to be part of the team that puts the groceries into individual bags using Casa’s packing schema. We need between 6 and 8 people for this. We will probably do this after church on our assigned Sunday.

• Volunteer to take the filled grocery bags to the Casa headquarters (currently on Pioneer Avenue) by about 1:30 p.m. on our assigned Sunday. We may need multiple vehicles for this or someone with a big truck.

Our first week for doing this starts on June 15 with the food packed and delivered on June 21. If you are interested in helping with this, please see Jean Miewald or email her at miewaldmac@gmail.com