Marion County Community Ministries

The porch at our back door was beginning to deteriorate and was rapidly becoming unsafe. Volunteer Bruce Johnson proactively decided to remedy the problem. Enlisting the help of Lawrence Reams, Raymond Biscker, and James Coffelt, they removed the old porch and discovered some foundational and siding dry-rot, which they replaced.

The new porch has a roof to protect from the weather volunteers loading deliveries into the building.

Many thanks to Bruce and his crew for seeing a problem and taking the steps to correct it.

On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, David Hall, on behalf of the Marion County Cruisers car club, presented a check for $1500 to George Jackson, Treasurer of the Marion County Community Ministries Food Bank. The club has an annual Labor Day Cruise-In, the proceeds from which are used to support their community.

In last month’s Newsletter we reported the following:

Har Zion Temple in Philadelphia has paid another visit to Whitwell Middle School.

On this trip to Whitwell from Philadelphia the wonderful folks took the Middle Schoolers shopping at Sav-A-Lot to buy food for the foodbank.

We hoped to have many details but all we have learned that the good folks of Har Zion Temple went shopping with the students at WMS and bought 800 pounds of food for the Food Bank.

Thank You Har Zion Temple!

MCCM Results for 2016

2016 was a busy year for MCCM. As you can see from the Figure 1, we distributed 9,508 boxes of food  to 6,711 families. We have 1,295 active families who needed food assistance during 2016, so obviously some families needed assistance more than once. Figure 2 shows the actual visit distribution. The total number of visits was 1,290 which means that 5 families are on the way to independence and will soon become “inactive” and 626 families needed assistance 3 or fewer times. That’s good news!

The Good Neighbors Program paid grants totaling $21,669 to various utility companies on behalf of 308 families. As you can see from the Figure 3 the Good Neighbors Program had to close during the summer months in order to conserve resources for the winter months.

The Food Bank and Good Neighbors Programs will be closed on Christmas Eve, December 24 and New Years Eve.

Again this month, we have Good News and we have Bad News!

First the Good News:

The building foundation has been reinforced and strengthened, the building is straight and level, the new HVAC unit has been installed to replace the failing and woefully inadequate unit that was there and our electric bill is considerably lower because of the increased efficiency of the new HVAC unit.

Now for the bad news:

The repairs cost MCCM $20,635.

If you would like to help us defray the $20,635 cost of these building repairs we would greatly appreciate your help.

Please make your check payable to:

‘MCCM Building Fund’
PO Box 681,
Sequatchie, TN 37374.