We Love Our City | Federal Way
Local churches, friends and family joining together to see our city transformed through serving and sharing God’s love in a tangible way!
Please help us reach our goal of $10,000.
Donations can be mailed to:
FWPS
Attn: Superintendent
33330 8th Ave, S
Federal Way, WA 98003
OR
Make a donation online toward school lunch debt.
All money donated to We Love Our City in the month of August will go towards this campaign. Thank you for supporting the scholars in our community!
Two years ago this month, the Save the Farm team (FW Parks Dept, We Love Our City, Todd Beamer DECA, Boy Scouts, Starbucks, and community friends, leaders & family) began working to restore the Hylebos Blueberry Farm. Teams weeded, mowed, fertilized, spread compost& removed blackberries. Hundreds of volunteer hours have paid off! We are delighted to be enjoying a huge crop of berries this year. It’s rewarding to watch our community come and pick berries, enjoy the park and explore the new connector trail (extension of the Hylebos Trail).
Special thanks to Jim & Donna Cox (Light of Christ Community Garden founders and master gardeners) for their guidance and donations of time, fertilizer, and masons bees, and for hosting the pruning event.
Thank you We Love Kent, Union Gospel Mission and Pacific Coast Fruit Co. for providing 1,133 boxes (26,150 pounds) of fresh produce and dairy. Thanks to all the We Love Our City and FW Senior Center Food Bank volunteers for driving, unloading, loading, and distributing! Food was distributed to 111 households on site. Teams delivered and distributed food boxes to 8 apartment complexes, individual homes, WJW Veterans Apartments, YMCA, FW Caregiving/Calvary Lutheran and one local church.
That’s a WHOLE LOT OF FOOD going out to our community. THANKS to all who make this happen each week!
We Love Our City is so grateful to be partnering with the Federal Way Senior Center Food Bank. A huge community effort went into collecting, organizing, and distributing 27,435 pounds of fresh produce, dairy, and lunch meat, and 3000 individual size bags of chips! A beautiful display of teamwork as multiple churches, non-profits, and individuals picked up food and distributed throughout our community.
• Thanks to everyone who donated towards the Breakfast Food Challenge for the ECEAPS/Preschool families. We surpassed our goal of 100 bags of pancake mix, 100 bottles of syrup, and 100 boxes of cereal. This is the 7th week the staff packed and distributed groceries, diapers, toiletries, and cleaning supplies to 150+ families (approximately 450 people). Side note: they order and receive pallets from PCF separately, not from the FWSC Food Bank. Many churches, staff & friends have helped donate cleaning supplies, diapers, food, and other needed items. Special thanks to the Church of the Nazarene, Family Life, LDS Church & Grace Church for your generous donations. Thank you Laura Batcheller for coordinating all of this!
• Thank you, Frito-Lay, for donating 3000 individual bags of chips, and to Mark Stringer for delivering.
• Shout out to Tammy Chanes (Brooklake Church) for gathering 16 friends and their vehicles, along with Laura Pauls’ truck & horse trailer, to go to Farmer Frog/Paradise Farms in Woodinville to pick up 6900 pounds of potatoes, onions, and apples. Speaking of Brooklake, one of their members, Jeff Waterfall, comes every single week to help direct traffic and load food into coolers, and recently repaired a hand railing!
• Peninsula Trucking picked up 8 pallets of beautiful, fresh produce boxes from The Union Gospel Distribution Center in Kent and delivered FREE of charge! (7200 pounds) Our heroes!!!
• Pacific Coast Fruit Co. hooked us up and delivered 8 pallets—produce, dairy & combo (450 boxes each weighing 25-27 pounds). This is the USDA Farm to Family program.
• The FWSC Food Bank volunteers served 115 households (380 individuals). 43 households were there for the first time. They distributed grocery boxes along with diapers, pet food, bread & other non-perishable items.
• WLOC volunteers drivers loaded up 132 grocery boxes and delivered to King’s Court and Evergreen Apartments, in support of the Integrity Life weekly feeding program.
• Christ the King, Grace Church, Christ’s Church, Integrity Life Church, International House of Prayer, and Family Life volunteers picked up grocery boxes and distributed to apartments and individual families.
• Our partners at Club Palisades (Apartment Life & One Hope Church) also received 2 pallets of produce from Union Gospel and a pick-up load full of a variety of boxes from the FWSC Food Bank. Over 100 families were served.
• Calvery Lutheran and FW Caregiving volunteers picked up several grocery boxes each, for their feeding programs for the homeless.
• Meanwhile…volunteers were also working on site at the FW Community Garden where thousands of pounds of organic produce are grown and donated to the community each year.
Exact numbers of pounds of food and individuals that received food would be impossible to count, but we know a whole lot of love, care, and FOOD went into the community today!!!
“Thank you” sounds so inadequate for all the hard work and effort that went into today. Please know each of you are deeply appreciated and you are making a big difference in the lives of many.
We will continue this every Thursday until the grocery boxes are no longer available. Contact us if you can volunteer! 8:30 am–12:30 pm. Trucks/large vehicles and drivers needed!
WLOC is excited to be partnering with Pacific Coast Fruit Company and the USDA Farm to Families Food program.
Several pallets of 25 pound boxes of groceries containing produce, dairy & lunch meat were delivered to the Federal Way Senior Center Food Bank & distributed throughout the community. Teams distributed 20,000 pounds of free groceries throughout the day.
Once volunteers finished unloading pallets at the FWSC Food Bank, they went to the ECEAPS /Head Start Preschool located at Uptown Square to assist the staff with unloading 3 more pallets. Their amazing staff spent the rest of the day organizing other donations of toiletries, canned goods, cleaning supplies, and diapers and delivering to the homes of their little scholars!
This was the first day of the program! Much more to come!
