TorkLift Central Turkey Challenge 2026

Help Feed Families This Holiday Season. Support The Torklift Turkey Drive!

We’re ready to gobble our way to a successful 3rd year. We’re partnering again with Torklift Central to manage a food and funds drive this fall to support Kent Foodbank’s holiday meal supplies. TorkLift coordinates business participation while KUMC’s Outreach Beyond Our Walls coordinates communities of faith. The Kent area LDS churches and First Christian Church of Kent joined us last year and are seeking more communities of faith to participate this year. In 2025, businesses and churches together raised just over $14,000. We can’t wait to see this year’s results.

Between September 27th and November 8th, we are striving as a church to collect at least $500, 100 1-pound boxes of butter (sticks, not tubs or spreads), and as many new containers of spices (regular-sized, not jumbo) as possible. Spices are rarely available at the Food Bank, so all types are welcome.

Visit the Outreach table after services. You can contribute financially through the church by noting “Turkey Drive” on your donation, either by cash, check, or online through our giving portal. Let’s help serve our neighbors holiday meals.

Food Bank Sunday

On the first Sunday of the month, we collect food donations for the Kent Food Bank. This is a way we express our love for Jesus as we take care of our neighbors.

Please join us by bringing food donations and placing them in the basket in the church narthex.

All donations collected will go to the Kent Food Bank.

Community Loaves

The team for Kent Food Bank & Emergency Services is baking to support the food bank's clients with delicious, healthy bread and energy cookies twice a month. If you love baking, join our Community Loaves team! This is not solely a KUMC program; all members of our community are invited to participate. To meet our goals, we need many, many bakers. Please spread the word. Feel free to contact Sandra Durbrow or Elaine Lowell directly with any questions, or attend an information session (required before baking). communityloaves.org/attend-information-session/

If you are not a baker, you are welcome to sponsor our bakers. Just submit any financial contributions to KUMC with “Outreach—Community Loaves” noted. Helping defray the costs for bakers is hugely appreciated, too.