Food Collection on Halloween! 🎃

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Hey all! 

For the last 4 years, my family has done something a little different from the usual trick or treating on Halloween.

The week before the 31st we put up flyers on the houses in a nearby neighborhood. The following week we go around and collect whatever people have decided to donate. Items vary from food and drinks, to various hygiene supplies. We then sort it, bring it to CROSS, and get the total weight of the items collected.

In 2018, we put up 100 flyers, and ended up with around 300 lbs of food.

In 2019, we put up 200 flyers, and ended up with around 600 lbs of food.

In 2020, we put up 300 flyers, and ended up with around 1,000 lbs of food.

Now, in 2021, we put up 400-600 flyers (we lost count) and ended up with just under 2,000 (1,966) lbs of food!



So many people have been blessed by the generosity of others, and we hope to continue doing this for years to come ❤












P.S all the candy that we got was given to our youth group :)




Hope you're all having a wonderful fall so far!

-Jacey


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