#ServiceWithASmile: Dinner for Our Neighbors @BethanyHouseSvcs

During the pandemic, it has been easy to see the need all around us. We at the New Church Of Montgomery have been fortunate enough to be able to take some of the opportunities to help that are in our community.

Bethany House Services, for whom we have done our ToySwap, the Something Wonderful art show, and brunches and dinners, continues to have the need of feeding unhoused families in the Cincinnati area.

If you would like to help provide a dinner for this community helper, please contact bethanyhouseservices.org.

Here is the dinner we provided for half of the families housed at a local hotel since shelters cannot adequately provide enough spacing during Covid-19.

Dinner for 48 of our neighbors: Smoked beef sausage, sautéed tri color bell peppers with onions, rice, applesauce, dinner roll, and chocolate chip cookies.

Peppers and onions

Rice, applesauce, buns, peppers & onions, cookies

Bags of dinners

Description of dinner bag contents

A way to help school kids

Buy supplies,volunteer to give them out, or register to receive them if you are in need:

via http://www.ogiveback.com

BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE

The first day of school will be here before we know it, and it’s time to start thinking about school supplies! We invite you to support Sycamore Community School students by purchasing new supplies or donating unused school supplies to Operation Give Back.  Our goal is to provide over 350 students with a backpack, along with items from their specific school supply lists.  

Our School Supply Wish List includes (but is not limited to) the following NEW or UNUSED items:

• 1″ or 1.5″ binders

• Dividers

• Folders

• Notebooks

• Pens

• Pencils

• Ear Buds

• Flash Drives

• Backpacks

• Ziploc Bags

• Tissues

• Hand Sanitizer

• Paper Towels

Please look through your child’s backpack before you put it away for the summer!  If there are any unused items from the list above that made their way home at the end of the school year, we would love to add them to our inventory.  Maybe you like to start your Back to School shopping early? Please consider buying extras when you find those great deals, and drop them off at an OGB School Supply Collection Site!!   Sites include:

• Sycamore District Office, 5959 Hagewa Drive

• E.H. Greene Intermediate School, 5200 Aldine Drive

• Blue Ash Elementary, 9541 Plainfield Road

• Blue Ash Recreation Center, 4433 Cooper Road

• Visit us at Operation Give Back’s Headquarters!! 10891 Millington Ct, Blue Ash, OH 45242. Donation drop offs will be welcomed on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday from 10AM-2PM.

Questions?  Please call us at 513-489-2023 or e-mail us at office@ogiveback.com.

How were you useful today? #AddBeauty #Cincinnati

The end of the day is a good time to check in with yourself and see how it all went. One question you can ask is how were you helpful or useful. Little things count, because they sure add up to brighten your sunset. They can add up to make a better day for others, too! Did you save an insect? Did you plant a tree? Did you smile at a stranger? Did you love yourself? Pat yourself on the back and do it again tomorrow. With love.

How can you help today?

“I am open and I am willing for to be hopeless would seem so strange. It dishonors those who go before us. So, lift me up to the light of change.” – Holly Near