October Newsletter

Dear Friend & Supporter:

Autumn Greetings! The cooler days and nights are a welcome relief from the hot and dry summer. Many of you reached out during our “heat wave” and donated cool water to our homeless guests who had nowhere to go to get out of the scorching heat. We pray now, that our county will open the Winter Overflow Shelter before the cold and raining season begins!

As we head towards the Holiday Season, please consider giving as much as you can to help our poor and homeless guests. We all, including you, have been affected by the economic crisis, but we need your help even more!

Here at Loaves & Fishes, we are serving many newly homeless families due the collapse of the housing market. We are also serving more families on the verge of losing their housing due to the high rents. They come here to eat in our Dining Room to help save a little in their budget so that they will NOT become homeless.

We have been serving an average of 675 folks daily—a 10% increase from last year! Many of you send money monthly, and one dollar is as valuable to us as the person who sends a thousand because it comes from your heart!

We take our responsibility as stewards of your generosity very seriously. We do not seek nor accept any government funding. We never sell or loan our lists of supporters. We don’t even print lists of our largest donors in our newsletter because we feel in fairness we would need to print the names of all of you who donate to Loaves & Fishes including those of you who are our elderly retired donors who send us one or two dollars every month from your limited incomes. We all make sacrifices in order to assist “the least among us”. We, as stewards, assure you that your sacrifice of time, goods and money are well spent.

You represent the parable of “the widow’s mite”, found in the Gospel of Mark and Luke. Jesus is teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem. He witnesses the donations made by the rich people. Jesus highlights how a poor widow donates only two mites, the least valuable coins available at the time. But, Jesus observes, this sum was everything she had to her name, while the other people give only a small portion of their own wealth.

You all give so much. And many times you give beyond your own means! You give because you care, and you believe that no one should go hungry in our world!

Thank you and God bless you all!

Love & Peace,

Sister Libby Fernandez, RSM

Executive Director

P.O. Box 2161
Sacramento, CA 95812
(916)446-0874
Fax (916)446-0875

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