Sunday, April 21, 2013
Help feed the hungry with the "Cans to Taste" drive during the May 4 food festival.
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Sunday, April 21
Thanks to Lorna Chastain, publicity coordinator of the Taste of East Cobb, for sending this along about next month's event: When thousands gather on May 4th at The Fountains of Olde Towne (736 Johnson Ferry Road) to enjoy the eighth annual Taste of East Cobb outdoor food festival, they will also have the opportunity to help make a difference in the fight against hunger in our community. This year, Taste of East Cobb is teaming up with MUST Ministries to promote “CANS TO TASTE,” a special one-day food drive to help feed the hungry. Festival goers who bring canned food items to Taste of East Cobb will receive one (1) free $1 Taste ticket for every five (5) cans of food donated. There will be special MUST Ministries food barrels located at …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Enjoy music, exercise and Thanksgiving fun while helping fight poverty at MUST Ministries' 10th annual Gobble Jog.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
This week's Cobb, Douglas and Paulding Weekend & Community Spotlight features the 10th Annual Gobble Jog by Marietta-based MUST Ministries. The road race on Thanksgiving morning raises money to fight poverty. This year’s theme, “It’s kind of a big deal,” heralds the Nov. 22 event that will hopefully attract 10,000 runners, building on last year’s 9,453 attendees. Proceeds from the race help MUST Ministries provide 34,000 individuals each year with food, shelter, education and employment opportunities, clothing and access to healthcare to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness and foster long-term change. Visit Patch's Event Calendar for more details on the Gobble Jog and how to register. Got a great event coming up in your community…
Monday, September 24, 2012
The one-day seminar hosted by Cobb nonprofits emphasizes interview skills, making a good first impression, meetings with hiring professionals and maintaining a job.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Almost 50 people arrived at MUST Ministries on Sept. 13 to learn skills that will help them get a job. MUST hosted the “Step Up Your Game” event in conjunction with other non-profits in the area, including Nobis Works, Goodwill, Center for Family Resources and Cobb Works. The collaborative event was the second conference this group has coordinated. The one-day seminar emphasizes interview skills, making a good first impression, meetings with hiring professionals and maintaining a job. In addition, some participants were selected for makeovers complete with hair, make-up and interview outfits. “This conference has had a high impact on the participants,” according to Beth Ray, Director of Employment Services at MUST. She cited several …
Friday, September 21, 2012
The marching band is on a six-mile journey to collect all manner of donations for MUST Ministries.
The Kell Longhorn Marching Band may be in your neighborhood this weekend doing what they do best to help support a local cause. The band is planning on executing a six-mile march beginning at the North Landing subdivision's pool parking lot at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The Longhorns will travel from there to Jamerson Forest and County Meadows subdivisions in order to collect donations for MUST Ministries. The march will end at Kell High School at around 1:30 p.m. The band will have four stopping points along the march for rest. Two band parent volunteers will drive behind the column looking to collect donations of non-perishable food and gently used clothing. Additionally, the band will accept monetary donations to help pay for two upcoming out …
Monday, August 20, 2012
Volunteers served nearly 190,000 lunches to families in need this summer.
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Monday, August 20, 2012
The Summer Lunches Program at MUST Ministries has just ended, and volunteers handed out a total of 189,648 lunches to needy children this summer—a 34 percent increase from last year. MUST started the Summer Lunch Program in 1995 in Cobb and Cherokee Counties in an effort to fight child hunger. In 2011, MUST Volunteers delivered 103,000 lunches to hungry children in Cobb and Cherokee, and the program was expanded to Douglas, Paulding, North Fulton and Gwinnett communities this year.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Twenty international students made approximately 750 sandwiches for the Summer Lunch Program and toured the MUST Ministries Day Service Center in Marietta.
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
The MUST Ministries Summer Lunch program had help from all over the world this week when 20 international students arrived to make sandwiches. None of them had ever seen a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, an American staple; so they were introduced to a new food in addition to learning more about poverty here. The group is here to study English with ELS Educational Services. Countries represented included Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Venezuela. The students made approximately 750 sandwiches and toured the MUST Ministries Day Service Center in Marietta. MUST is serving more than 4,000 sack lunches every week day. To help with lunches, go to www.mustministries.org for details.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
The children MUST Ministries serves don’t go on vacation, but the people who help provide meals do. That situation creates a shortage of food.
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
by MUST Ministries While thousands of people race off to the beach or the mountains for July 4th week, area children are still racing to the MUST vans to pick up their daily lunches. “The problem is when people go on vacation, we receive fewer donated lunches, but we have the same number of hungry children,” according to Paula Rigsby, Seasonal Coordinator for MUST Ministries. MUST is now serving 3,700 children a day in six counties and desperately needs people to donate lunches during the holiday week. The children we serve don’t go on vacation, she explained, but the people who help us provide meals do. That situation creates a shortage of food that must be made up because the food has been promised to these children. There are several …
Monday, June 18, 2012
MUST serves 34,000 clients a year, yet many items they need are not in stock. The greatest need is for protein like peanut butter and canned meats.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
When school ends and families leave for vacations, giving to food pantries decreases, according to Annette Lee, Director of Administrative Services at MUST Ministries. “Plus, school food drives cease and many other churches and organizations who regularly give take a summer break.” While it’s a difficult time to collect food, “our neighbors in need don’t take a break from coming to MUST for groceries. In fact, most families need the groceries even more because their children are eating at home instead of at school,” she explained. Looking over the inventory list is startling. MUST serves 34,000 clients a year, yet many items they need are not in stock. The greatest need is for protein like peanut butter and canned meats: chicken, tuna, …
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Volunteers are needed to pack and deliver bag lunches.
MUST Ministries’ dire need for volunteers could impact hungry kids. School ended for Cobb County last week and for most students their summer promises free time and family vacations, but for some Cobb kids enrolled in the federal free and reduced lunch program it means gnawing hunger and uncertainty. MUST Ministries’ summer lunch program offers the same kids a bag lunch every weekday during the summer, but so far there aren’t enough volunteers to pack lunches and deliver them to the kids, said Jennifer Richmond, the Cobb County summer lunch coordinator. “We need drivers more than checker/packers,” she said. “We still need people to make the lunches because they’re all donated. We need drivers out of Smyrna, the Milford Baptist area and …
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Paulding County resident Allen Scott Gill collapsed as he finished the 10K benefit run in Marietta on Thursday.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Both the Marietta Daily Journal and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, citing a family friend, are reporting that Gill died of a massive heart attack and was probably dead when he hit the ground. They also say the Gills were regular runners, and Rose Gill routinely beat her husband until Thursday, when she purposely let him finish first. The funeral for Scotty Gill will be Dec. 3 at 2 p.m. at West Cobb Funeral Home, which says he lived in the Dallas area the past 15 years and was a purchasing agent for Dixie Construction Products for more than 30 years. A Paulding County man collapsed at the end of the Gobble Jog in Marietta and died Thursday. Allen Scott Gill, 53, went down just as he crossed the Marietta Square finish line of the 10K run …
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