Saturday Servants
Again this year, HTLC will prepare bagged lunches for the Anderson Emergency Soup Kitchen through the Saturday Servants Program. However, adequate precautions will be taken due to COVID-19. Each Saturday in July we will gather in Fellowship Hall to prepare 100 peanut butter/jelly sandwiches and 100 bologna sandwiches, along with other food items. This year the following changes will take place:
 Because of social distancing, we are only needing 12 volunteers each week to make sandwiches.
 You will need to contact Pat in the church office to volunteer.
 We will begin at 9:00 a.m. instead of the usual 9:30 a.m. to allow more time.
 Only 4 volunteers are needed each week to distribute the food at the Soup Kitchen.
 No close contact will be allowed with those receiving the food.
 Masks and gloves will be required to prepare the food and to distribute the food.
 Gloves will be provided.
 Kroger Bakery will not be providing the bread this year, nor Carolina Produce providing the fruit.
 We are asking for financial donations to allow us to cover the cost of the bread and fruit.
 We will be providing individual packaged pretzel bags instead of creating our own.

• We are very grateful for all of the food items dropped off for the Saturday Servants Project. 
  As of 6/21/20 we have all the food items that we will need.  Thank you to all who have donated!

AIM in Need of Food/Donations
We have learned recently that AIM is in dire need to replenish its Food Pantry.

Because of COVID-19, the normal income of food donations is drastically lower due to churches not being open and thereby decreasing the amount of food items brought in each week, and to the cancellation of the Postal Service Food Drive, which is the largest source of canned goods for the Food Pantry. Added to this crisis is the increase in the need of the community as unemployment levels have increased.

Holy Trinity is reaching out to address this need in two ways. You may drop off needed food items (listed below) at your convenience in the room off the narthex, using the church door access code, or you may make a monetary donation directly to AIM or through the church. We are grateful to Amy Goodson who has agreed to drop off the food items to AIM as they come in.

Food Items Needed Include: Peanut Butter, rice, dried beans, pasta, canned meat, canned fruit, canned soup, oatmeal, grits, flour, sugar, cereal, cooking oil—cleaning/personal hygiene list: bath soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrushes, toilet tissue, laundry soap, bleach, cleaning solutions (Lysol, Mr. Clean for example).

Please note: perishables are not included.

An Update on Masks

The Community Mask Challenge was for 8000 masks, and that goal has been reached. If you are on facebook, they have a facebook group (AnMed Health Community Mask Challenge). Check it out! According to this page, they are still accepting masks but will be sharing them with other first responders/community groups that need masks. So if you have completed masks, you can either leave them in the box in the room off of the narthex (Nancy Korn  will pick them up and deliver them) or you can deliver them yourself, either to AnMed or to someplace else that might need masks.

Fabric to make more masks is located in the room off of the Narthex.  There is a box for  completed masks there as well. See Nancy Korn for more details.

We received word of another opportunity for ministry outreach during this health crisis.  You are encouraged to send cards or letters of appreciation to the AnMed staff thanking them for their work during COVID-19.  Particular groups that could be addressed include: Physicians, Nurses, Staff in general, EVS – Environmental Services (they are the ones who courageously go into rooms and clean them before and after COVID-19 patients.  The cards/letters can be sent in bundles in large envelopes to:  Rev. Tricia G. Lytle, Manager of Spiritual Care, AnMed Health, 800 N. Fant Street, Anderson, SC  29621 and she will make sure that these get to the appropriate staff.