Upcoming Events

September Food on the Fourth Requests

We will be donating food to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Food Bank in Ridgefield on Sunday, September 28th. The following is a list of foods that they need:

• Boxes of Cold Cereal
• Canned meat: Chicken and Pork (Spam)  They have a good supply of tuna.
• Spaghetti Sauce
• Cans of Soup
• Cans of Diced Tomatoes
• Boxed meals such as Hamburger Helper, Rice-a-roni, Pasta Helper etc.   
• Toilet Paper                      T 

The sorting and distributing of the foods will be on Monday, September 29th at 8:30 AM in the narthex in Hazel Dell, and anyone who is interested in helping is invited to attend.  

Your continued generous support of Food on the Fourth over the summer has been much appreciated. In July, $410 was given to purchase food and 434 pounds of food were collected for the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Food Bank. Thank you to all!

You may leave bags of food by the Food on the 4th cupboard in the narthex at anytime during the month, and food will be placed around the altar at worship services on on the 4th Sunday of each month. The sorting and distributing of the food will be on Monday after the 4th Sunday at 8:30 AM in the narthex. You are always welcome to come and help with the sorting! Both of the food banks that we serve, Neighbors Helping Neighbors and the Lewis River Mobile Food Bank, continue to express their gratitude for the generosity of Messiah Congregation! So far in 2025, nearly 2 tons of food have been donated to the two food banks that we serve!