People Helped in 2019
People Served Each Month
Pounds of Food Distributed in 2019
As I have reflected this past week, it dawned on me that even though 2020 has been a difficult year, there is a gift in all its chaos. Perhaps the gift is the opportunity to be the hands and feet of God....yes, I did say opportunity. Perhaps this year is an opportunity to serve. An opportunity to put the needs of others ahead of our own wants and desires. An opportunity to be appreciative for what we already have. An opportunity to serve our neighbor.
So on this final Thanks-For-Giving post, I want to show a special appreciation for the people that Olivet Neighborhood Mission serves each day! It is because of your trust in our organization that we work so hard! We have come to know many of you by name and call you neighbors, but also friends!
Thank you especially for being patient with us as we stumbled through 2020 making changes, often daily, in order to keep everyone safe through COVID and Derecho.
Happy Thanks-For-Giving to you all! May God bless you all and keep you safe in this sometimes crazy, but always beautiful world!
With Gratitude,
Julie Palmer
Director
Olivet Neighborhood Mission
julie@olivetmission.org
💐 Thanksgiving Blessings 🙏 ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ 💞 Thank you for all you do 💞
Thanks for all u doing for people god blessed u with the work u do in the name of Jesus happy Thanksgiving day stay safe
Thank you for all you do for us all
Olivet Neighborhood Mission will be closed Thursday and Friday this week!
We will be open Saturday, November 28th from 9am to 11:30am.
Happy Thanksgiving!
In today's Thanks-for-Giving Day 7 post, I want to show my thanks to all the In-Kind Donors that give food, clothing, housewares, toiletries and other needed necessities to Olivet Neighborhood Mission!
Below are a list of our business & community in-kind donors, who provide in-kind items to Olivet Neighborhood Mission on a regular basis: ( in no particular order)
Casey’s (F Ave & Ellis Rd NW)- 40 lbs. coffee / plastic coffee cups with lids
Samantha C. – winter coats for kids
Chelsey M. from The MAC - 70 coats
KCRG- over 200 coats
Hope Lutheran Church - 5 boxes food
Prairiewoods Spiritual Center- hats/scarfs/mittens, 100 lbs. of food from their garden, 4 boxes knitted hats, mittens, scarves
Fareway 1st Avenue – over 10,000 pounds
Spring Valley Dental Care - food drive and money
Raining Rose- 1000 lip balms
Mount Mercy University- Nursing Faculty – toiletries and money
McMurrin Trucking - truck & trailer full of canned foods and new clothing
St John Lutheran Church, Ely - group cash donations
St Jude's Catholic Church – sock drive
Roosevelt Middle School - 215 lbs. canned foods, cereals
Betsy Boos's Boutique- 500 lbs. canned food
Christ Church Presbyterian - 92 canned foods/ 78 pounds
Treasures - clothing
St Johns Schools, Independence- 50 fleece hand tied blankets
Mercy Medical Center- sock drive
Diamond V - 350 pounds canned foods
Downtown Restaurants- 210 pounds tomatoes / lettuce
ONM bookkeeper- Geri- 30 masks
Menards SW- over 500 lbs. canned foods food
Cindy L. - (17) $25 Visa cards
UHC- Gina Johnson 45 lbs. produce, misc. toiletries
NW Neighborhood Food Drive- 3,658 pounds canned food
Willis Daddy- 32 cases (300 lbs.) cereal
Drop Inn- 17 boxes fruit snacks and 3 cases cereal
St John Lutheran Church, Ely, and City of Ely Food Drive- over 900 pounds
Linnwood Apt- 80 pounds canned food & bread Feed Iowa First- 1,856 pounds
Tim H.- 200 backpacks & 175 winter hats
Level 10 printing - 5 boxes new clothing
Mary H.& the Bunco group- new pop up 10 x 10 tent
A Family Market Place 800 pounds
Susan P. & family- fans & toiletries
Dr Fitzgerald & Associates- 20 vouchers for eye exams and/or glasses
Fareway 1st Avenue- 120 bottles of shampoo/bath soap Keller Williams (Eaton office) -275 pounds food & toiletries
City of Waukon (Josie Springton) 500 lbs. food plus misc clothing, toiletries
Great Western Bank--250 pounds canned food, toiletries, money
City of Rock Valley, Iowa-- 3,100 Pounds _65 cases of water, canned food, misc toiletries, laundry soap
Bimm Ridder- 5 boxes new clothing
Pat L. from St Patrick Church- CR --36 hats, 50 scarves, 14 soap sacks
Maid Rite--75 meals donated for give away
Metal Design Systems- 18 bags of winter clothing
Roosevelt School- 6 bags of winter clothing
Ecolips- 200 cherry hemp lip balms
Perhaps the largest group of in-kind donors, Olivet Neighborhood Mission is during our Holiday Adoption Programs which matches a Sponsor with an Olivet Family for Thanksgiving & Christmas! Over 250 Sponsors help with this program serving over 400 families!
In addition, there are on average 250 clothing & household donations per month! That is over, 3000 individuals donating the household and clothing items they no longer need to the mission to help our neighbors in need!
With Gratitude,
Julie Palmer
Director
Olivet Neighborhood Mission
julie@olivetmiss