The St John Bosco Food Bank garden supplied the Lakewood Nourish Food Bank with 3956 pounds of beautiful, fresh, nutritious produce grown in our garden and 781 pounds of gleaned apples, pears and plums from parishioners and neighbors for a total of 4737 pounds of food. We started delivering food on 4/23/20 and delivered for 28 straight weeks in a row to 10/29/20! We also delivered some produce and herbs just prior to Thanksgiving. The food bank was very grateful for the food supplied to them in this unprecedented year of need.

We felt very blessed that we were able to continue our ministry this year in spite of Covid-19 as we were working outside and able to social distance. We are very thankful for our regular weekly group of faithful volunteers and for individuals or groups who work a few hours here and there. We had a wonderful group of youth from the Deanery on a Lenten retreat in February, including Cassie and youth from SJB who hauled compost and helped to prepare our beds in the spring. Seven Mormon missionaries helped us for a few hours in October, to close our beds for the winter. A neighborhood young family stopped by one day and helped us harvest for a couple hours. We are so very grateful in this uncertain year that God provided enough workers to continue our mission. Please keep us in your prayers for continued help for our project, less competition from voles and rabbits, and the health, strength and enough volunteers to continue next year.

Contact Jodi Petrinovich at 253-230-3941.

Thank you to all who have returned their Parish Stewardship commitment card. Your generosity supports the mission and the many ministries of St. John Bosco and Immaculate Conception. We thank you for your good Stewardship of all that God has given you. If you have yet to fill out your commitment card, please take a moment to fill out the card as soon as possible. For those who provided us with an email address, a Stewardship letter was forwarded to you along with a direct link to the stewardship form available on our website. For those of you who have not provided us with an email address, the Stewardship letter and a commitment card was mailed to you directly.

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