Tuesday, October 13, 2020

With Great Thanksgiving...

There are so many people and organizations to thank for enabling the Disaster Recovery event to happen Saturday.  Our church would like to especially thank principal Mike Heffner and Cyndy Cote from Bonny Doon Elementary School for making the school parking lot and auditorium available for FEMA, Red Cross and other organizations to use.  We also thank Emergency Services Manager, Rosemary Anderson for her support and coordination with FEMA Emergency Management Specialist, Colleen Zaremba.  Thank you to Hallie Green for her expertise from the Bear Creek event.  













Thank you to Convergence Church for providing volunteers, funding for lunch and gift baskets.  Hana prepared meals to the Felton Pres. Church.  Karen and Mary made up these wonderful gift baskets.  We especially thank Joby Aviation for allowing us to store lunches in their walk-in refrigerator and Paula and Jonathan Holt for meeting us Friday night and Saturday to store and retrieve them.





Thank you to our church members for serving food and helping to provide Covid checks to people attending the gathering.







Thank you to Kim Furnish for donating clothing for our neighbors attending.




Tuesday, October 06, 2020


Disaster Recovery

This Saturday, the church has coordinated to have FEMA, NGO organizations and county offices come to Bonny Doon to give residences impacted by the fire an opportunity to have their questions answered.  Here are some of the organizations who will be there in addition to FEMA:

  • Red Cross
  • CalFresh and Second Harvest
  • Monterey based Catholic Charities 
  • Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County
  • United Policyholder

The first stop for participating in this information session will be to stop by the church (7065 Bonny Doon Road) for a COVID screening and a reminder to please wear your mask at all times while on the school and church properties and to keep a 6-foot distance from other participants.  Once you've been screened we will give you a paper wrist band to wear around your wrist so that participating agencies will know that you've been screened.

FEMA will be setup in the lower parking lot at the school.  NGO and county agencies will have tables in the school's multi-purpose room.  

Convergence Church has given us a grant to hire Hana O'Brien to prepare food for people who join us.  We will be serving Lulu's coffee at the church.  Hana was the recipient of a generous donation of high quality meat and non-perishable food to prepare meals for people impacted by the fire.   She prepared food for people in her community when she was evacuated and is sharing this with us. The food was donated by companies like Google and Twitter who had kitchens that were shutdown due to COVID when employees began working from home.   We are grateful to Joby for allowing us to store the food overnight in their walk-in refrigerators and Felton Pres. Church for allowing the use of their kitchens.


Vegetarian:

- Pesto Parmesan Tortellini 

- New York Mac Salad

- White chocolate Macadamia Nut cookies



Vegan:

- Mediterranean Couscous (contains almonds)


Everyone:

- Irish Style Beef Brisket w seasoned spaghetti 

- Tandoori Chicken w seasoned spaghetti

- Cajun Style Chicken w seasoned spaghetti 


Kim Furnish has setup a donation table of clothing that people are free to take.  Many of the items are new with tags.  Convergence Church volunteers will be available to pray with people who would like prayer support.