Our mission partner VEAP–a food-shelf-and-more located in Bloomington–recently sent out a thank you for the incredible support of community organizations like ours. Edina Morningside Church has volunteers who still serve each week at VEAP despite the pandemic, we grow produce (and receive donations from the neighborhood!) all summer, we participate in back-to-school campaigns, and last year our youth led a “Donate and Do” drive, collecting toilet paper and diapers.
Our church’s efforts combine with congregations and neighbors throughout the Cities, leading to this, from VEAP CEO Joe McDonald:
VEAP has provided healthy and nourishing food, as well as rental and utilities payments to more than 7,500 families in Bloomington, Richfield, Edina and Minneapolis… That’s more than 23,000 children, teens, adults and seniors receiving the assistance they desperately need right now. I’m happy to say we’re on pace to distribute 5 million pounds of food for the year, with 50% of that being fresh produce, our biggest year yet. Remarkably, our social services team has issued $2.5 million in rental assistance grants in response to the great need that has arisen from the pandemic.
Read the full note from VEAP here, and thanks for your generous, year-round support of all our mission partners!