Outreach of Love - HELP! HELP! HELP! More bologna & cheese sandwiches are needed for the Outreach of Love lunches. Here are the steps to making the perfect sandwich. Questions, call King Hastings 303-693-0972.

Sandwiches are easy to make:

Supplies needed: Loaf of bread, sliced bologna and sliced cheese and folding sandwich bags.

Take the loaf out of the wrapper and lay in on the counter, put a slice of bologna and cheese between the appropriate slices to make sandwiches. NO MAYO, MUSTARD etc.

Place a sandwich into a sandwich bags, fold in the top and put it back in the loaf bag.

Write the date and Outreach of Love on the bag, and place it in the fridge at church.

Smoky Hill UMC’s Outreach of Love Ministry
Lunches for Aurora’s day laborers, and more …

Nearly 17 years ago John Kingsbury and Ron Way started the Outreach of Love Ministry.  The idea was simple: provide sandwich lunches for the day laborers who gather at temporary employment agencies along East Colfax Street each morning. These men and women, hoping to get a job for the day, often show up without anything to eat for breakfast and with little money, if any, to buy lunch.

Members of the SHUMC congregation made bologna and cheese sandwiches and left them at the church on Sunday and that evening John and Candy assembled lunches at their home.  From various sources they rounded up fruit and sweets and it all went into a paper lunch bag.  Early Monday morning Ron picked up the lunches, often over 100 bags, and by 6:00 a.m. he had passed them all out and was on his way to work.

As time went on other members of the congregation helped with the lunches and the folks along East Colfax got to know the folks from Smoky Hill UMC. Stories came back to the congregation of feeding families who lived in their car, and the family waited all day for dad to come back with money so they could buy food for the evening meal. They also received notes of appreciation for the love that was shared with them.

In 2006 when John Kingsbury was appointed pastor to the UMC at Last Chance Colorado, he and Candy could no longer make the lunches and the ministry went on hold. 

Now we have started this vital ministry again. We appeal to the congregation to continue making bologna and cheese sandwiches, to bring then to the church on Sunday, or place them in the freezer earlier in the week.  Volunteers are invited to help assemble the lunches in the Celebration Hall during the third Sunday Service.  The lunch bags are packed with a sandwich, cookie or cake and a piece of fruit, and then on Monday morning they are delivered to the day laborers. 

We can always use more help, especially the donation of sandwiches.  Donations of money are appreciated to buy fruit, sweets, and other supplies that are high on the list.

ATTENTION: 
This is a great mission project for groups, youth activities, family mission projects and individuals.