Transition Soup Project
CLC members prepare and deliver soup for two transitional shelters the first Thursday of every month. The soup usually feeds a combined total of 80-100 people. One team of volunteers prepares the soup in the kitchen at Central in the afternoon. Separate and rotating teams of volunteers take it to the two shelters and serve the soup to the residents of one of them. For more information, or if you want to volunteer, contact Faye Bennett at mfayebennett@comcast.net.

Northeast Emergency Food Program
CLC provides volunteers for the NEFP on the 5th Saturday of months that have them. We usually need two teams of volunteers for these Saturdays. The morning volunteers work from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM, this involves packaging and sorting food as well as restacking the shelves. The afternoon shift goes from 1:00-4:00 PM and entails handing out food to the clients. For more information, or if you want to volunteer, contact Gerd Horten at ghorten@cu-portland.edu.

Central Lutheran Church also collects food on an ongoing basis for the Northeast Emergency Food Bank. For more information on the NEFP, see http://www.emoregon.org/NE_food_program.php.