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FOCUS Alert! July 27th, 2012

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1. August 5thFOCUS Worship at Delmar Reformed2. School Supplies and volunteers needed3. Community Harvest Garden4. Volunteer Picnic set for August 11th

5. Golf Event6. Lunch at Cider Mill Restaurant benefits FOCUS7. Farm Bill in peril8. Visit us on the Web

6. Lunch at Cider Mill Restaurant benefits FOCUS

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2. School Supplies and volunteers needed

5. Golf Event

1. August 5thFOCUS Worship at Delmar Reformed

3. Community Harvest Garden

4. Volunteer Picnic Set for August 11th

FOCUSchurches.net

7. Farm Bill in peril

Breakfast

Express

Rev. Debra

Jameson

honored by NYSSenate

School

Supply

Project

Food

Pantry

Summer

Worship

Hunger Action Net-

work honors anti-

hunger advocates

Farm Bill

Updates

Community

Harvest Garden

Gardening in a

Bucket for Kids

Golf Outing

September 11

FOCUS

AdvocatesDonate

Join us for Sunday worship 8/5at 386 Delaware Avenue inDelmar. The Delmar ReformedChurch will be hosting theFOCUS congregations at the9:30 am service.

Why do we worship together?

We celebrate, as the FOCUSChurches, our common calling tobe Gods servant people in abroken and hurting world.

We honor the uniqueness of our member congregations with theirdiversity of gifts, separate histories, and God-given resources.

We acknowledge that we need to learn from one another, to be enriched

by one anothers vision of Christian faithfulness, and to join in those

areas of Christian mission where we can work more effectively together

than by ourselves (from the 1968 covenant statement).

VOLUNTEERWe need help to pack and distribute supplies onthe following days* (note new location below) :

Packing Days10am to 12 noon

Monday, August 27

Tuesday, August 28

Wednesday, August 29

Distribution Days10am to 1pm

Wednesday, August 29

Thursday August 30

Friday, August 31

Volunteers MUST be

signed up ahead of time.

To sign up, (518) 443-0460 or [email protected]

*NEW LOCATION:

First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany

405 Washington Ave.

In August

Monday-Thursday from 9-12 noon for dropping off supplies

Packing, Distribution and supply drop-off

will happen at this location.

The FOCUS Community Harvest garden is a 20 x 20 plot located at St. Pauls

Episcopal Church that it utilized for community, production, and harvest. Operating

from May-October, the garden provides volunteers with experience in preparing,

planting, maintaining, and harvesting produce. 700 pounds of produce will be raised

and transported to the FOCUS Interfaith Food Pantry. Currently green peppers are

being harvested and enjoyed by pantry guests.

August 11th, 1-4 pm

Please bring something to share

(salad, chips, dips, surprise us!) *

RSVP by August 1

443-0460 [email protected]

(location and directions will be

sent with your rsvp)

*Beef & Veggie Burgers, Hotdogs,

drinks & dessert provided

Come and let us say thanksServer, dishwasher, computer intake, food

stocker, floater, cook, coffeemaker, driver, Board member, advisory commit-

tee, scheduler, data input, advocate, bookkeeping, gardener, kitchen boss,

worship leader, unloader of trucks, produce sorterall of you and more

are invited to get together:

Bring along a

lawn chair!

Pool is

openbring

your suit!

SPONSORS

For golfers at

any skill level!

$120 for One |

$440 for a 4-someFee includes green

fees, cart, prizes,

and food.

ALL money raised will be

used to fund FOCUS

emergency feeding

programs.

Tuesday, September 11th

Orchard Creek Golf Club

Formoreinfoclickhere

Join us for lunch on the

day of the golf event,

Sept. 11th !

1-3 p.m.Lunch

from Club Menu

$20 per person

Reservations & advance

payment mail to: FOCUS,275 State St., Albany NY 12210.

[email protected]

Orchard Creek Golf Club is the home of Cider-

house Restaurant, a restaurant offering a large

variety of food, wine and spirits to tantalize al-

most anyone's tastes. The menu showcase's a

large variety of appetizers, salads, sandwiches,

and entrees.

8. Visit us on the Web

This Week- Currently there is no Farm Bill action scheduled.

There has been some discussion on a House vote for a one-yearextension of current Farm Bill programs.

July 12, 2012

House Passes Farm Bill Proposal(Click link above for more information)

June 21, 2012

Senate Farm Bill Passes(Click link above for more information)

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