Georgianna Church has a mission to be a beacon of light for all people. Feeding children at risk of hunger each year at local schools truly puts lightness in the steps of kids on Friday afternoons, knowing that they at least have food to sustain them through the weekend. On behalf of our staff and board of directors at TCHP and especially on behalf of the children we serve, we wanted to say THANK YOU to the Georgianna family for your continued support!
I spent some time recently reflecting on all that Georgianna has done for the children of our county.
Thank you to Pastor Corky who speaks with passion on behalf of TCHP. When he was not able to attend an event, he made a video on behalf on Georgianna!
Chris and Melody and all of the Georgianna volunteers stay the course, to helping feed local children - a wonderful example of the caring and generosity of the faith community.
Earlier this year, we received an unbelievable gift from Georgianna - that gift currently provides an entire school years’ worth of weekend nutrition for over 300 students.
Over the years, Georgianna's financial support ensured that over 1,200 students received food packages for an entire school year! That is almost 50,000 weekend packages of food!
Before the pandemic, TCHP was serving 2400 children weekly. When the pandemic hit and the schools shut down, we went from 2,400 to almost 6,000 packages weekly almost overnight as we stood alongside BPS on Fridays, handing out our weekend packs to those in need. Georgianna stood alongside us. Chris Rodriguez and her team of volunteers started by packing 600 packages weekly and delivering them to 3 schools (Mims, Oak Park and Cambridge), then increased to 1,000 weekly, distributing to two additional schools, Golfview and Riviera.
During Covid, the congregation packed almost 20,000 packets, and has been behind the scenes ever since!
Georgianna is the model to encourage other churches to get involved. Every two weeks we drop off food supplies to Georgianna so that their wonderful volunteers can pack the food packages and then deliver 185 weekend food packages each week to Cambridge Elementary in Cocoa. Georgianna helps us get weekend food into the hands of children that need it.
Over the years, the impact that the Georgianna family has made on our efforts to end childhood hunger in Brevard is staggering…On behalf of the thousands of children that we serve, thank you Georgianna!
Cheryl Cominksy
TCHP Executive Director