With the holiday season fast approaching, Good Samaritan Ministries is entering both its most hectic and helpful time of year.
Currently, GSM is the midst of the #TackleHunger Month Community-Wide Food Drive, which concludes at the end of October.
Churches, businesses, schools, civic organizations and other groups are assigned a specific item from a list of items that would be used to prepare a traditional Christmas dinner. These items are collected and used to pack Christmas boxes that are distributed in December to all pantry clients. GSM plans to distribute 850 boxes this year.
A complete list of the items for each group to collect is posted on the GSM website at www.goodsambwd.org or you can call 325-643-2273.
If your business, Sunday school class or school group wants to participate in the #TackleHunger Food Drive but you don’t have the space to collect the actual items, you can make a monetary donation and Good Samaritan Ministries will purchase these items for you and give credit to your organization for the number purchased. E-mail us at [email protected] for more information.
Items need to be received by Nov. 1 so the packing of Christmas Boxes can begin on time Nov. 7.
Families, businesses, church groups, school groups are invited to come pack the more than 850 food boxes that we will give out during the month of December. Dates and times for packing fill up quickly.
Call 325-643-2273 to schedule a time or register on the GSM website, www.goodsambwd.org.
Also, Wednesday, Nov. 2 is the Abundant Living Simple Giving Chili Lunch.
The challenge is to find 100 folks to donate $100 each to support the Deer Project and the processing costs. In exchange, GSM will feed you a hearty meal of chili and all the trimmings. Lunch is from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Teddy’s Brewhaus on Fisk Avenue in Downtown Brownwood. Carry out will be available. Contact Stacy at 325-643-2273 for more info.
Saturday, Nov. 5 marks the start of “regular deer season” as the Deer Project again returns. Deer season continues through Jan. and GSM and the following processors are partnering to provide lean protein to those in Brown County thru the Good Samaritan Food Pantry.
The Deer Project, which began in 2008, allows hunters to use up the rest of their tags after they’ve filled their freezer or mounted that prize buck on their wall. They simply take their legally harvested and tagged deer to one of our participating processors.
Processors are:
- Double R Processing (formerly Perks) (Brownwood)
- Lone Star Taxidermy & Wild Game Processing (Owens)
- Santa Anna Custom Processing (Santa Anna)
- Fulldraw Legends Processing (Rising Star)
- Potter’s Taxidermy & Wildgame Processing (Cross Plains)
- Broken O Processing (Comanche)
When you drop off a deer, be sure to register for a chance to win some great prizes including one of two $250 Visa Gift Cards that GSM will give away in January.
