The Way Home provides healthy nutritional classes for their clients in conjunction with the New Hampshire Food Bank. Here is a wish list of supplies needed for the class. If you or your group are able to provide the items from one of the lists shown below, please email Linda at linda.hamel@yum.com.

Cooking Class Equipment Wish List 

* indicates necessary equipment

One of our Making A Connection families from The Way Home is graduating their program and moving out in late December.  All furniture in The Way Home apartments belongs to them, not the family. This single mom needs beds, sheets, etc… for herself and her 4 children, all under age 5.  If you can help, please email Linda at linda.hamel@yum.com!

Thanksgiving at The Way Home!! Many thanks to everyone who provided a Feed the Need meal bag and the volunteers who helped distribute them! We are better together!!

There are many volunteer opportunities available both in our community and around the world! Click any of the below opportunities featured in our latest program to find out more:

• Making a Connection w/ The Way Home, Info Meeting, Sept. 26 at 11am in MCC 201
• A medical P.E.A.C.E. Trip to Rwanda in February 2011
• A Clean Water Initiative P.E.A.C.E. Trip to Rwanda in February 2011
• CareNet Pregnancy Center Annual Banquet on Fri, Oct. 22.

Looking for a way to help local families in transition?

Volunteer to be part of our ‘Making A Connection’ gatherings, in partnership with The Way Home, to support families in transition living at The Way Home. Our goal is to help these families maintain normalcy in their life.

You’re invited to an info session on Sun, Sept. 26, 2010 from 11:00 to 11:30am in MCC Conference Room (#201). Natalie Martin, from The Way Home, will be available to provide a program overview and answer questions. If the description below sounds like you, we want to meet you!

• You are at ease starting conversations with new people 
• You enjoy playing games and other activities with children 
• You have a creative side and can help plan arts & crafts and other activities for group meetings 
• You can commit to making monthly meetings at The Way Home 

Please RSVP to MCC member Linda Hamel at linda.hamel@yum.com.

We had terrific participation in this year’s Backpack Drive for The Way Home.  A total of 253 backpacks were collected!!  Special thanks to everyone who brought new backpacks filled with school supplies!  The backpacks are in the process of being distributed to under-resourced families who are served by The Way Home.  Each child receiving a new backpack will have something to call their own as they begin the new school year. 

Looking for a way to help local families in transition?

Volunteer to be part of our ‘Making A Connection’ gatherings, in partnership with The Way Home, to support families in transition living at The Way Home. Our goal is to help these families maintain normalcy in their life.

You’re invited to an info session on Sun, 8/15 from 11:30 am to 12:15 pm in MCC Conference Room (#201). Natalie Martin, from The Way Home, will be available to provide a program overview and answer questions.

If the description below sounds like you, we want to meet you!

• You are at ease starting conversations with new people
• You enjoy playing games and other activities with children
• You have a creative side and can help plan arts & crafts and other activities for group meetings
• You can commit to making monthly meetings at The Way Home

Please RSVP to MCC member Linda Hamel at linda.hamel@yum.com.

Manchester Christian Church is partnering with The Way Home, a non-profit dedicated to helping low-income households obtain and succeed in safe, affordable housing, to provide 300 backpacks for under-resourced students in our community! Don’t forget to bring your filled backpack to MCC this Sunday, Aug 1 or Sunday, Aug 8!!

Backpacks are needed for the following age groups:

Elementary school (K-5) boys & girls
Middle school (6-8) boys & girls
High school (9-12) boys & girls 

Check out the supply list below!

• Brand new backpack (age/sex listed at top of form)
• 1 - package of #2 Pencils 
• 1 - Pencil Sharpener 
• 1 - package of Ballpoint Pens 
• 1 - Yellow Highlighter 
• 1 - package of Markers
• 1 - 12” Ruler
• 1 - Glue Stick
• 1 - One-Subject Spiral Notebook

Please include this supply list in your filled backpack.

Email Linda Hamel at arhamel5@msn.com with questions!

The Way Home serves thousands of people annually in the greater Manchester area, these projects directly support the families that live at The Way Home, as well as the clients they serve in our community.

Volunteer opportunities available are:

Babysitting Services - ongoing

Help the families of The Way Home by providing babysitting services one night per month while the parents attend mandatory workshops sponsored by The Way Home.

When: (3rd Wed each month, 5:45 - 7:30pm)

Supply Provisions - one time opportunities

• Cooking Class materials
• Baby Diaper Bags
• Women’s Hygiene Bags
• Budgeting Tools

Help provide ‘supplies’ that are greatly needed by the clients The Way Home serves on a daily basis. These projects involve an individual’s or small group’s time and financial resources to purchase items specific to the selected project.

Project Contact:  Linda Hamel, MCC’s liaison for The Way Home, can provide more details about each project listed.  Her contact information is arhamel5@msn.com.