This month, Northwest is again supporting our long-time partner, the Community Assistance Center (CAC). The CAC is on the forefront of the effort to fight food insecurity and hunger in Northwest’s Sandy Springs / Dunwoody neighborhood. While the CAC provides numerous services to families in need, including emergency rent and utilities assistance, clothing, school supplies, and job placement assistance, one of the primary roles filled by the CAC is alleviating hunger at their food pantry facility in Sandy Springs. There, the CAC provides non-perishable groceries, produce, fresh food and holiday baskets to low-income families. CAC’s pantry is a “client choice market” that allows the families they serve to shop for their own groceries from the items that they have available on the pantry shelves using vouchers. More than 1200 families per month visit the CAC’s food pantry and they provide nearly $1 million in no-cost food to the community annually.
CAC relies upon donations of food, time and money from individuals, groups and local businesses. However, CAC’s member congregations – which number more than two dozen Sandy Springs faith communities, including Northwest – are vital to its ability to serve the community. In recognition of our support of CAC’s good work, we have selected CAC as our December Share-the-Platerecipient. Each Sunday during the month of December, half of all non-designated funds collected during the Sunday offering will go the CAC. Please give as generously as you are able.